Verbalizing and Visualizing is a reading comprehension program intended to help children support reading comprehension by developing visualization skills.
Category: Literacy
Literacy refers to one’s ability to comprehend written text and produce written text.
Playlist of Literacy Interventions for Children with Significant Disabilities
Find the playlist link below. In addition, links to each individual module are also provided. Read More
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: Bilingual Students (Part 2)
Unfortunately, the question of whether or not to support bilingualism in students with severe disabilities is still a common question, even among educators and other professionals. Stephanie presents the research that has demonstrated that bilingualism, even in students with severe disabilities, has many cognitive as well as socio-emotional benefits. In addition, students with severe disabilities are able to learn both language just as well as their non-disabled peers when accounting for development age.
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 2 (Part 5)
This module includes strategies for conjunctions, spelling rules, graphic organizers for essays and narratives, and suggestions for more engaging and motivating activities for adolescent students.
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.
