Find the playlist link below. In addition, links to each individual module are also provided. Read More
Category: Encoding (Reading)
This term is in reference to reading skills. Encoding is the process of putting sounds, words, and sentences into writing.
Literacy Intervention for Children with Significant Disabilities: Interventions (Part 3)
Interventions for literacy in SWSD should consider where the student falls on the spectrum of oral language into literacy and move along the continuum accordingly. Phonics has been demonstrated to an especially effective in supporting SWSD in literacy development. Stephanie provides practical activities to use in supporting literacy in SWSD. Stephanie also reviews how to incorporate AAC devices into literacy intervention.
Literacy Intervention for Children with Significant Disabilities: Teaching Considerations (Part 1)
Students with Significant Disabilities require special considerations to ensure these students can achieve as much as possible. One issue is the tendency for these students to become “passive learners.” How can we engage these students? Stephanie reviews research demonstrating how to most effectively support these students in their language and literacy development, such as by targeting phonemic awareness.
Playlist of Writing Interventions
This playlist includes the 5 videos included in the Writing Interventions module series. Stephanie Downey Toledo reviews what a writing disability is and gives us an opportunity to get an idea of what it might feel like to have one. She also provides us with activities and strategies to use, both in and out of the classroom, to help support our students in becoming confident, successful writers. Below you can find each individual module from the series. Read More
Writing Interventions: Writing Intervention Activities (Part 4)
This module provides practical interventions to use in therapy, in the classroom and at home for students with writing disabilities. Stephanie has been able to use these interventions with students with all types of disabilities, including more severe disabilities. Activities include using word families, sentence building with word cards, targeting “wh” words and sequencing practice for narratives.
Writing Interventions: Form and Function of Writing (Part 3)
Stephanie gives us some realistic strategies to use in writing interventions, both in the classroom and therapy room. Stephanie emphasizes the importance of ensuring that all students get adequate practice in using writing functionally. All too often students, especially those with significant disabilties, get stuck on activities that focus on form alone, such as tracing. This does not give students access to the broader world of writing.
Writing Interventions: Writing Disability Simulation (Part 2)
For those of us who always excelled in language related tasks, at school or at work, it can be difficult to put yourself in the shoes of a child with a writing disability. This module provides a writing task that allows us to get an idea of what it might be like for our students who struggle with a writing disability. After experiencing a simulation of the struggle our students experience all day, every day, in school hopefully we can be more sympathetic to that struggle and more effective in our planning and support of those students. Read More
Writing Interventions: What Makes Writing So Challenging for our Students? (Part 1)
Writing requires our students to generate ideas, organize/plan, form the letters, remember spelling rules, and then order syntax and sequence in the appropriate manner. Stephanie reminds us that writing requires fine motor skills, executive functioning to plan, organize and pace as well as language skills for vocabulary and grammar. Stephanie asks us to consider where the break down could be occurring for our students and figure out how to support them.
