Students from low income backgrounds are especially vulnerable to falling behind their literacy development as they become adolescents and move into the upper grades. As vocabulary and content increases in complexity, students without adequate foundational skills begin to experience more struggle and frustration with grade level material. It can be particularly difficult to motivate adolescent students, so Stephanie reminds us to be sympathetic to the challenges our students face and provides strategies to motivate and support adolescent readers. Find the rest of the modules from this series below: Read More
Category: School-Age
Relevant Research: Factors That Influence Fast Mapping in Children Exposed to Spanish and English
The current study asked whether bilingual children would show less advantage in fast-mapping high-probability words as a result of interference from the second language (in this case Spanish) when compared to monolingual (English) children.
Contemporary Approaches to Intervention: Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing® (LiPS) ® Program for Reading, Spelling, & Speech
Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing (LiPS) is a multi-sensory process-based intervention program that aims to improve fluency by developing phonemic awareness. Read More
The Benefits and Challenges of the Push-in Service Delivery Model
While traditionally many SLPs practiced only the pull-out service delivery model, this has been changing in recent years and the expectation that school SLPs provide services using the push-in model is increasingly common. In New York City, Chancellor of the Depart of Education, Dennis Walcott called for a push-in model to be used with students receiving related services. When I started working at a middle school in Brooklyn, I did not have any previous experiences providing services by pushing in. At the school placement I had done in graduate school, the SLP I worked with used the pull-out model. When I asked around for advice, I was hearing that a lot of SLPs wanted to provide push-in therapy and wanted to go into the classrooms but most did not know how to do it effectively. Read More
