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SPEECH TO GO: Ideas For Speech and Language Therapy: ASHA 2010 Philadelphia
SPEECH TO GO: Ideas For Speech and Language Therapy: ASHA 2010 Philadelphia
SPEECH TO GO: Ideas For Speech and Language Therapy: ASHA 2010 Philadelphia
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Sarah A. Sawyer, MA, CCC-SLP
Owner/Operator
SPEECH TO GO
Learning Outcomes
Participants will be able to:
The position states that children with language impairments are four to five times
more likely than normally developing children to have reading difficulties during
the school years.
Suggests that it is appropriate for SLPs play an integral in helping children become
literate. Further, it advises that SLPs possess skills in diagnosing and treating
children with phonological disorders; such skills can be applied in individual
consultation about a student or collaboratively with classroom teachers to develop
lessons on phonological principles.
National Reading Panel and
National Early Literacy Panel
Both of these groups identified these areas
essential to reading and literacy –
phonological awareness, phonics, reading
fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.
Instructional decisions should be made on
what is known to improve language and
literacy. We need explicit teaching of skills – as
well as incidental.
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