Welcome to Special Education 519. Please take a few moments to add a post sharing with your classmates your experience (s) with speech and language disorders.Also, take an opportunity to be an observer of nonverbal communication this week. Look carefully! What do you see? Can you find any recurrent gestures and/or facial expressions? What do they mean? Also watch for any misunderstandings caused by nonverbal communication. Feel free to comment on your fellow classmates posts as well. My master's degree is in Hearing Impairments so I took several classes in teaching speech and language and understand that speech and language disorders are an integral part of teaching hearing impaired children as well as children with many other disabilities. I taught first grade deaf children at the Arizona State School for the Deaf and Blind for five of the best years of my life. I hope that I can prepare all of you to understand and use speech and language terminology and methodology since it will be an important part of your special education career.
Theory and Remediation of Language and Communication Disorders
This blog will allow us to communicate about topics covered in class. We will be able to share ideas, collaborate on various theories studied, and work on projects together.
Sunday, February 1, 2015
Saturday, January 31, 2015
Blog #2 - Analyzing a Language Sample
You have now learned how to determine a MLU based on a language sample of 3-5 utterances. Please share who you intend to use for your language sample, why you chose this person, and other things about this person's language that you may learn while taking this sample.
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Blog #3 - Teaching "Christianly"
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Please respond to our class discussion on "Teaching Christianly" particularly as it relates to teaching children with communication disorders. Are there any Language Acquisition Models discussed in class that could tie into this theme? We can take this discussion in any direction and see where it ends.

Please respond to our class discussion on "Teaching Christianly" particularly as it relates to teaching children with communication disorders. Are there any Language Acquisition Models discussed in class that could tie into this theme? We can take this discussion in any direction and see where it ends.
Sunday, January 25, 2015
Blog #4 - Language Acquisition
Friday, January 23, 2015
Blog #5 - Cultural and Language Differences
This week listen to a person with cultural/language differences from you. Did you understand everything they said, even the nuances? How did you feel when you did not understand some or all of the conversation?
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Blog #6 - Releasing Your Full Potential
As teachers we want to release the full potential in our students and in ourselves. What is one (or two) of the most important things you have learned so far about language and/or communication disorders and how will knowing this help you be a better teacher of ALL students with disabilities?
Friday, January 16, 2015
Blog #7- Burning Questions
What
is one (or maybe two) question (s) you still have about speech and language
disorders, particularly in children with one of the disabilities discussed in class today? Perhaps someone from our class can answer
your question while coming up with their own question.
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Blog #8- SLPs
Today you had the opportunity to learn what a speech-language pathologist does in a school setting and how you as a special education teacher can support their work. Please comment on either the SLP you heard today or the one you interviewed for your paper and share 2 or 3 things you learned from that person. Feel free to comment on your classmates blogs as well.
Sunday, January 11, 2015
Blog #9- Wise Words From a Speech Pathologist
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Saturday, January 10, 2015
Blog #10- Gardner's Intelligences
Take Gardner’s MI test found at http://www.literacyworks.org/mi/assessment/findyourstrengths.html.
What did you find out about yourself that can help you be a better communicator and speech and language teacher in the classroom?
What did you find out about yourself that can help you be a better communicator and speech and language teacher in the classroom?
Sunday, January 4, 2015
Blog #11 - Can You Haiku?
Please write a haiku ( 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables) about communication.
Then add a brief explanation of...
1) How you've incorporated what you've learned in this class in your own classroom
2) How you intend to use what you've learned in this class in your own classroom
OR
3) Share a major take-away from this class
Then add a brief explanation of...
1) How you've incorporated what you've learned in this class in your own classroom
2) How you intend to use what you've learned in this class in your own classroom
OR
3) Share a major take-away from this class
Thursday, January 1, 2015
Blog #12 - Using AAC Devices in the Classroom
Based on your readings, class discussion, the video shown in class, and the SLP presentation, please share how you think AAC devices can best be used in the classroom with children with and without speech. Think about high tech and low tech devices as well as aided and unaided devices. Do you currently use any AAC devices in your classroom? If so, has it been a positive experience for you and/or the student(s) who use these devices?
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Blog #13- Glossary Terms
It's time to now review that glossary list that you have been accumulating all semester. Please choose 5 words from your glossary, write their definitions, and state why they are important to understanding communication disorders. Please do not have any duplicate glossary terms from other class members so the earlier you get this done, the more words you will have to choose from.
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Blog #14 - Presentations and Power Points and Prezis, Oh My
Several weeks ago we learned much from each class members' speech or language presentation and are now going to share some of what we've learned via our class blog. Please compliment each other on jobs well done, sharing a bit of what you learned from at least two presentations and how that learning may affect how you work in your classrooms.
Friday, March 28, 2014
Blog #15- Glossary, Samples, Interviews, and More
You've taken the time to add new glossary terms to your communication/language/speech disorders list each week. You've also had the opportunity to take a language sample, a speech sample, and interview an SLP. Please share one thing that you've learned from this class that you will be able to put into practice as a special educator.
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