RTI me ASAP

December 22, 2008

If anyone knows of any RTI presentations going on around Texas please let me know.  I did a webinar thing that was pretty useful but am still looking for more info.

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Is Bilingualism detrimental for Children with Autism?

December 15, 2008

We are often asked whether a language-impaired child should learn two languages.  Dr Susanne Döpke frames the same question regarding Autism.  It is good read.

http://www.bilingualoptions.com.au/consTXTAutism.pdf

Here is an excerpt:“There is no research evidence to suggest that hearing more than one language makes the symptoms of autism worse or that the English-only advice improves the abilities of children with autism - language-wise, conceptual or social.”

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Spanish-English Developmental Speech Norms

December 1, 2008

We got a question about what speech acquisitions norms to use. The truth is that a lot of different research that has different timeframes for sound acquisition. Lisa Bedore at the University of Texas compiled most of the available research in one table. I attached some of the forms that we use here in Central Texas that comes from some of this information.

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