Thursday, September 29, 2011

SQ3R Strategy

SQ3R is a stategy to help learners understand and remember information in textbooks. It is a great tool for reading a text or studying for tests that parents can use with their children. SQ3R stands for



  • Survey: Look over titles, headings, illustrations, and summaries to get an overview of the chapter.

  • Question: Think of questions that may apply, that a teacher might ask, or that may appear on a test. (Students can develop good questions by turning subject headings into questions.)

  • Read: Read one section at a time, finding answers to those questions.

  • Recite: Say answers aloud (or in writing).

  • Review: Go over the main points by explaining them to someone in your own words.
The SQ3R strategy encourages students to think about what they are reading and focus on main ideas and important concepts. Try it!

Friday, September 23, 2011

Read Together

Shared book reading is a literature based language intervention that works well with children with language difficulty. Literature based intervention is an effective way of teaching students language and literacy skills. Speech-language pathologists who use this method don't actually teach reading skills, or decoding skills. Instead, they focus on the underlying language that underpins all literacy. Text-based intervention has a strong contextual base. This is important, because learning abstract language concepts within a familiar context helps to alleviate the problems associated with decontextualized language.

Shared book reading's primary goal is for an adult to use a story book as a therapeutic tool to improve language knowledge and use. This is done by using the text and illustrations in a picture book as the source of language stimulation. The language is essentially examined and parsed in detail using the text and pictures in a children's story book. The number of language goals that can be gained from one passage in a well written children's book is quite amazing.

It's enjoyable to use text-based language intervention. The students tend to enjoy it too. That's because they get to think and learn about literacy and language in a new way that is interesting to them.

For more information, see www.Speechlanguage-Resources.com

Friday, September 16, 2011

Speech RtI

Students at Prairieview who have previously received Speech Response to Intervention (RtI) have been rescreened. Parents are being notified by letter if their child continues to qualify for the Speech Sound Improvement groups. Please complete the consent form included in the letter and return it to Mrs. DeYoung. Lakeview Speech RtI students will be rescreened next week.

Friday, September 9, 2011

Speech/Language Homework

Dear Parents,

I have begun to see students with IEPs for speech and language services. Many of the speech/language students at Prairieview will receive a Speech pocket for their binders and be expected to bring their binder to therapy sessions. Children who have IEP goals for improving articulation, grammar, or increasing speech fluency will often be assigned activities to practice at home. These students benefit from frequent repetition and reinforcement of target skills that may not be available in their regular education setting. The activities are designed to provide additional practice opportunities outside of the Speech room. Please check your child's binder each week to see if he (or she) has received any handouts from speech/language group and review it at home with your child. They will also receive a sticker chart to keep in the binder and be given a sticker when homework is completed, signed by a parent, and returned to Speech class. Upon earning five stickers, students may select a reward from our prize box.

Please contact me if you have any questions about speech therapy. I am looking forward to an exciting and successful year.

Sincerely,

Marilyn DeYoung MA. CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist

Friday, September 2, 2011

Good Communication Skills

In Speech-Language classes students practice good social communication and conversation skills as well as work on target speech or language goals:



  • Listen

  • Take Turns Talking

  • Look at the Other Person

  • Stay on Topic

  • Watch Facial Expressions

  • Read Body Language

Speech-language therapy: Building Better Communication