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Putting Order to Mixed Receptive Expressive Language Disorder Treatment
Some research that I have uncovered and revisited lately has made me question how I have been planning my speech therapy for children with mixed receptive expressive language disorder. In looking into the specifics of receptive vs expressive language and...
Can We Use English Standardized Tests For Assessing Students From Diverse Backgrounds?
Assessing students from diverse backgrounds is something that every speech-language pathologist needs to be able to do well. There is not a single speech-language pathologist who only tests those whose cultural, linguistic, and educational backgrounds match their own....
Diagnostic Accuracy of Speech-Language Tests
Interpreting Sensitivity and Specificity As speech-language pathologists we often use speech and language tests as diagnostic indicators for whether someone has a speech or language disorder, and we need to consider is the diagnostic accuracy of these tools. In other...
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The 3 Prevailing Speech Sound Disorders Research Models
Have you ever thought about how unbalanced our understanding of language disorders is compared to speech sound disorders? On the language side we are really comfortable with some very technical words like morphology, syntax, and pragmatic use. But what has speech...
Duplication of Services for Speech Dismissals – How to Determine and Write it Up
Have you ever picked up a student from a reading specialist or special education classroom and what they are working on looks exactly like what is taking place in speech therapy? Or maybe you are at an annual meeting and the special education teacher’s goals sound...
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This was such a concrete explanation of how important language specific constraints are…I’m grateful for this excellent resource, and will be sharing it with my grad school peers.
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Thank you for this thought provoking read! As someone who has been an SLP for over 40 years, I have to agree with the majority of what you reported. I look forward to reviewing the supporting studies in the future!
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