Blog #1- Welcome!

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.