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Speech Language Pathology
Contact: Eric Scroggs, Director​

Speech Language Pathology (SLP)| SLPs take part in the intervention and evaluation process. Their goal is to help improve how well a child is learning and performing in the classroom. To do this, they often focus on a child’s ability to understand and use language. SLPs work with kids both one-on-one and in small groups. 
How SLP's Help With Language and Communication Issues:
SLP at school may work with kids on language, speaking, listening and reading skills. The SLP will design activities for the students particular issues. The activities might help your child in ways like these:
  • Boosting phonological awareness skills. This can help your child’s use of beginning reading and decoding skills. The SLP might start by helping your child with rhyming and with identifying the beginning sounds in words.
  • Using language to express more complex ideas. The SLP may teach your child to speak in longer sentences and to share more details. For instance, she might focus on “joining words” like and, but or because to help kids combine their ideas in sentences.
  • Understanding inferences. These are ideas that aren’t directly stated in text. The SLP can work on helping your child understand the meaning of what he reads.
  • Building vocabulary. Knowing more words can help your child with speaking, reading and listening. To help kids remember new vocabulary words, the SLP might act them out, use them to retell stories or play vocabulary games.
  • Using strategies to improve reading comprehension. The SLP may start by helping your child recall what he knows about a topic before he reads. She may also help your child find words or pictures in the reading that are clues to help with understanding.
  • Improving social communication skills. Your child may get help with the back-and-forth of conversation. This can involve learning to pay attention to the other person’s tone of voice, body language and emotions.

Websites:

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) - Resources to help you understand communication and communication disorders.

PrAACtical AAC -  Improve the communication and literacy abilities for individuals with significant communication Challenges. 

The Stuttering Foundation -  The Stuttering Foundation provides free online resources, services and support to those who stutter and their families, as well as support for research into the causes of stuttering.

Teach Me To Talk  - Helping parents teach toddlers to understand and use language.  Resources for speech therapy in toddlers.
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