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If you want to see how you can use Black Sheep Press Barrier Concepts or Pronouns packs, it is worth checking out Chatty Therapy resources videos. The pronouns pack is now in colour so no colouring needed!
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Pronouns is a pack of games and activities designed to develop understanding and use of simple pronouns - ‘he', ‘she’ and ‘they’.Toni Howarth have a look through. If you think they're any good for us, I will get them
The Top 3 Books with Autistic Characters: 2019
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With a greater emphasis on the autism community than ever before, 2019 had plenty of cracking autistic depictions in books but, which one was best?Have you seen our FLAC series? [Functional Language Across Countries]. These materials for SLTs to use when they assess the early language skills of bilingual and non-English-speaking children.
Three speech and language therapists working in community clinics in Belfast developed and trialled these resources over two years. These SLTs have extensive experience in assessment, differential diagnosis and the provision of intervention for children. This has included children who are bilingual or whose family members speak a language other than English.
Cultural and linguistic adaptations are the result of collaborative working with interpreters from the Northern Ireland Health and Social Care Interpreting Service who are home-language speakers of the language on which they advised.
Languages the series cover include: Russian, Lithuanian, Slovak, Spanish and Polish.
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RUSSIAN: Bilingual Assessment Materials - Black Sheep Press
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Russian bilingual assessment materials for SLTs when assessing language skills of bilingual & non-English-speaking children with Russian as a home language.Rhiannon Kohler Catrin Lois Jones Alex Caitlin Jones
Sophie Hornsby Ellie Kay x
"we could, for example, eliminate early reading failure, using the same techniques used to eliminate diseases: research, development, practical experiments, and planful, rapid scale-up. It’s all a question of resources, political leadership, collaboration among many critical agencies and individuals, and a total commitment to getting the job done."
Why Can’t Education Progress Like Medicine Does?
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I recently saw an end-of-year article in The Washington Post called “19 Good Things That Happened in 2019.” Four of them were medical or public health breakthroughs. Scientists announced a new the...I agree that educational services would benefit from " more wallet" to support what could be substantial advances in practice. The author's simplistic, absolute and damning use of " failure" to describe less than ideal outcomes, suggests that we not in the same corner.
And ignores human differences and strengths and weaknesses and disabilities... humans are Not machines that can be produced with identical outcomes.
Interesting blog from ASHA - Why involve Siblings in Speech-Language Intervention
Why Involve Siblings in Speech-Language Intervention
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An SLP with personal experience shares insights on the benefits of involving siblings in treatment, especially for early intervention.