[ Post a Response | Phonological Awareness and Literacy ]
Posted by thuperslp
on 10/31/2007, 11:30 am, in reply to "Re: Literacy & SLPs"
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I agree with incorporating some literary aspects in my phonological/articulation therapy. I find it easy to include complemental phonemic awareness learning such as sound segmenting words, identifying beginning, middle, and end word sounds, sound blending a word, and rhyming word play with the isolation, syllable and word levels of my student’s targeted phonemes. In addition as my contribution to the new wave of early intervention philosophy I do push in “Phonology Classes” for my kindergarten teachers a few times a month to address their literacy concerns such as those listed above. My long speech pathologist’s therapy and teaching history has taught me to embrace teaching complemental literacy lessons to aid my speech students in transferring their newly learned speech sounds back into their classrooms. It also is a wonderful way to be a resource for your teachers. Isn’t that what LRE (least restrictive environment) and our target is after all. To get our speech student back into the classroom. It also feels great to see the quicker progress my students seem to have in achieving their phonological and articulation and even some language goals. Another bonus is seeing for myself that my students are demonstrating their good speech in their classroom. So I encourage those of you who are open to trying to include some literacy learning with your articulation therapy. It really does work and it is fun to teach!
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