“I can’t hear myself think!” The compelling case for quiet classrooms
Education theories abound about the best set-up for classrooms. As a parent, I know different school systems, principals, teachers, and families have strong and divergent…
“I’m concerned about my child’s language”: 6 1/2 questions speech pathologists should ask before assessing your child (2022 update)
I ask families lots of questions before I assess a child with suspected communication challenges. My pre-assessment questionnaire is long and I know it takes…
Disability | Language | Reading | Speech
Communication access = communication for all: Speech Pathology Week
Wheelchair ramps. Disabled parking. Lifts at train stations. All ways that communities support people with physical disabilities to get on with their lives and to…
Help your child to fill in the gaps, join the dots, and read between the lines! (Improve inferencing skills for better reading and language comprehension)
Roughly 10% of primary school-aged kids have poor reading and oral language comprehension skills relative to age-appropriate word-reading skills (Cain, 2009). These kids – poor “comprehenders”…
“My son (daughter) has been diagnosed with a developmental language disorder. How much treatment should he (she) get? How often?”
Until very recently, the answer to these very important questions has been: “We don’t know.” (See, for example, Warren et al., 2007.) This is unsatisfactory for…