You have probably used fiction and non-fiction books throughout your career. In creating this course, we tackled research in speech-language pathology, education, and library science to assure that every minute…
Literacy-based Intervention: Step-by-Step
Welcome to Literacy-Based Intervention: Step-by-step
Successfully Use Storybooks to Reduce Planning Time, Easily Work in Groups, and Target Multiple Communication and Academic Goals
Fun, fast, effective therapy is only a few hours away.
The content in this course has been presented to hundreds of speech pathologists throughout the United States in full-day seminars. We know what professionals liked, what they thought was useful, and what information they needed to make a dramatic impact on their workload and caseload. We boiled all of the essential information down to this 3 1/2 course.
More than anything, we can’t tell you how much fun literacy-based intervention will be for you and the students you work with. Enjoyable and Research-based? Not possible you say! Well grab a cup of tea, have a seat, and lean in. We are about to tell you a story about how speech-pathologists are waking back up to the reasons they joined the field in the first place.
Here is the process:
If you have any questions you can contact me at any time!
Lessons
Why Use Storybooks in Speech and Language Therapy?
You are smart and probably have a lot of letters behind your name and years of experience to prove it. You need facts and proof before you buy in to…
Improving Story Narratives of Children from Different Cultures
How do we decide if narrative difficulties are due to an impairment, second-language influence, or cultural difference? This section highlights how culture and language shape the way children recount events…
Language Sampling to Accurately Assess What to Work On
This section gives us the tools to know exactly what to work on and the means to strategically tie our therapy to communication goals and requirements of the curriculum. We…
Choosing Goals and Taking Data
In this section we provide dozens of templates with examples of how they can be implemented in your therapy today. All activities found in this book are designed to be:…
Storybook Intervention
It is important that we take a moment and explain really how simplistic this is. Those of us who are successful with literacy-based intervention, those of us that boost academic…
Pre-Reading Activities
Many professionals do a really good job while the book is open. But we are burning through therapy materials and not serving students with limited book experience well if we…
Reading Activities – While the Book is Open
This is why you thought you joined this course! Did you know there was so much more? Now we dive into the precise ways to interact with the story so…
Post Reading Activities – After the Book is Closed
After the book is closed? We’re done right? You have just given your students the ability to answer any question, tell a story to someone, or answer a question correctly…