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Speech, occupational, physical, and feeding therapy bookmarks from around the web

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Should Adolescents Go Back to the Basics?: A Review of Teaching Word Reading Skills to Middle and High School Students

This review investigates the effects of word reading interventions (e.g., phonic analysis, sight word reading, oral reading fluency) on reading achievement outcomes in middle and high school studen...

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Treatment of (Central) Auditory Processing Disorder: Bridging the Gap Between the Audiologist and the Speech-Language Pathologist

There is a history of debate and controversy about the assessment and intervention of children diagnosed with auditory processing disorder (APD). Professionals in communication sciences and disorde...

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Reading Longer Words: Insights Into Multisyllabic Word Reading

Students with persistent reading difficulties are often especially challenged by multisyllabic words; they tend to have neither a systematic approach for reading these words nor the confidence to p...

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Teachers’ Opinions Regarding the Symptoms of Central Auditory Processing Disorder In Children With Reading and Writing Difficulties

The study reported on here aimed to investigate whether CAPD symptoms were underlying to reading and writing difficulty. It was detected that children with CAPD symptoms had a significant disadvant...

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Understanding Intervention For (C)APD: As Easy As A-B-C

Poor (central) auditory processing may manifest behaviorally in a variety of ways, including deficient academic performance, impaired communication, and altered sense of self. A is for Activities,...

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Redefining Auditory Processing Disorder

Often, treatment for APD and receptive language and comprehension may be the same. Specific remediation doesn’t exist for the perceptual processing skills (such as dichotic listening) that are asse...

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Building Semantic Networks: The Impact of a Vocabulary Intervention On Preschoolers’ Depth of Word Knowledge

Results suggest that fostering deep vocabulary knowledge involves not only teaching single word entities but also introducing systems of conceptually related words to build semantic networks.

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Receptive Language Vs. Expressive Language

Put simply, receptive language generally refers to listening while expressive language refers to talking. But there's more to it, as we share in this blog!

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Increasing Adolescents’ Depth of Understanding of Cross-Curriculum Words: An Intervention Study

Cross-curriculum words are not consistently understood by adolescents at risk of low educational attainment within a low socio-economic context. A 10-week intervention programme resulted in some in...

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Efficacy of Auditory-Verbal Therapy In Children With Hearing Impairment: A Systematic Review From 1993 to 2015

This systematic review investigates the effects of auditory-verbal therapy (AVT) on receptive and expressive language development, auditory and speech perception, and "mainstreaming" in children, 2...

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Why Do the Children (Pretend) Play?

Pretend play appears to be an evolved behavior because it is universal and appears on a set schedule. However, no specific functions have been determined for pretend play and empirical tests for it...

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Red Flags For Speech-Language Impairment In Bilingual Children

Red Flags for Speech-Language Impairment in Bilingual Children Differentiate disability from disorder by understanding common developmental milestones.

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Effects of Parents' Mealtime Conversation Techniques For Preschool Children With Hearing Loss Who Use Listening and Spoken Language

Parents of preschoolers with hearing loss may benefit from specific coaching to elicit language and introduce new vocabulary during home routines. These techniques may help develop their children's...

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Bilingual Language Development Video

YouTube Video on Bilingual Language Development by Kathy Kohnert

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Language Difference vs Language Disorder: Assessing English Learners

Video available Language Difference vs Language Disorder: Assessing English Learners Carol Westby, Bilingual and Multicultural Services, Albuquerque, NM Kimberly Murphy (Host), Old Dominion Un...

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Bilingual (English/Spanish) Therapy Materials By Bilinguistics

Downloads and resources for providing bilingual therapy (Spanish/English)

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Evaluation of Bilingual Children- Considerations

An overview of considerations when evaluating bilingual (Spanish/English) children

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Your Child’s Early Development is a Journey

Skills such as taking the first step, smiling for the first time, and waving “bye-bye” are called developmental milestones. Children reach milestones in how they play, learn, speak, act, and move....

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Milestone Moments

These developmental milestones show what most children (75% or more) can do by each age. Subject matter experts selected these milestones based on available data and expert consensus.

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Multilingual, Multicultural, Bilingual Resource Link For SLPs

Link includes ASHA resources and information related to evaluation and treatment of clients from linguistically and culturally diverse backgrounds. Link includes ASHA resources to: Accent Modi...

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Learning Two Languages: Bilingualism

Information and resources for SLPs and parents of bilingual children

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Bilingual Service Delivery

Information and resources regarding bilingual service delivery by SLPs (from ASHA)

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Bilingual (Spanish/English) Evaluation Resources

Dozens of speech, language, fluency, and other evaluation resources for bilingual evaluations

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Following Instructions

A speech pathologist can assist a child to follow instructions in order to function effectively across different environments and complete tasks successfully.

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