Last week, I had the opportunity to attend a workshop on bilingual speech-language pathology. As the United States becomes more diverse, more and more SLPs and other professionals are facing caseloads with clients who are not native English speakers. In the past, the “rule of thumb” was often English-only, and parents were told that speaking [...]
Archive for the ‘Spoken Language’ Category
Bilingual Oral Language Learners
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
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The Catch-Up Game
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
Lots of attention in the CI world is focused on children implanted young — often before one year of age. Research shows us that children who receive implants before two years of age have a significant advantage in the development of auditory, speech, and language skills (see Svirsky et, al, 2004 and Nicholas and Geers, 2007). [...]
Posted in AVT, Children, Cochlear Implant, Elizabeth, Language, Oral Education, School, Spoken Language | 2 Comments »
Crafts, Concepts, and Critical Elements
Monday, August 8th, 2011
Arts and crafts projects are about far more the cutting, pasting, and bedazzling until your fingers are sore — they’re also a great way to work on critical elements and basic concepts (see explanations of these terms below). These activities can be customized to meet the needs of children of a variety of developmental levels [...]
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Books with Lots of Learning to Listen Sounds
Sunday, July 17th, 2011
The Learning to Listen Sounds are one of the first things a parent learns when introduced to Auditory-Verbal Therapy. Therapists with a caseload of many new listeners repeat these sounds dozens of times a day. While a box full of Learning to Listen Sound toys is great, pairing these sounds and toys with a literacy [...]
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Working with Pediatric Cochlear Implant Recipients Related to Deaf Parents
Thursday, June 16th, 2011
A Deaf parent of a child with bilateral cochlear implants writes an informative post for those who work with children who are deaf/hh related to Deaf parents who chose spoken language and CIs for their children: I thought y’all may be interested in the information related to children with CIs, with the focus mainly on [...]
