I provide language therapy and communication intervention within an amazing community of students who are striving to learn and better their circumstances. I provide push-in language and social pragmatic therapy services within the classroom, but also have the opportunity to work closely to collaborate with my students' team of classroom teachers, paraprofessionals, and parents.
Every child deserves the opportunity to communicate, expand their language, and show the world how wonderful, individual, and unique they are.
My students are extraordinary individuals who choose to overcome challenges and adversity every time they come into the classroom. It is not a light task to enter the social environment of the classroom while struggling to communicate their emotions and anxiety. These dedicated children inspire me daily to be a better teacher and to help them change their world.
My Project
I work every day with students who experience severe speech and language impairments which make it difficult for them to communicate with the classroom with both peers and adults. It can be incredibly frustrating for them when others don't give them the opportunity to speak because they assume they don't communicate or presume they won't understand them.
"It shouldn't matter how slowly a student learns, what matters is that we encourage them to never stop trying ~ Robert Meehan".
The requested materials are specially designed and evidence based resources used to treat speech and language impairments. They target specific concepts that directly impact both understanding and expression including sentence expansion, verbs, inferencing, sound production, and descriptive skills. Therapy and instructional planning and support for our students will be so much more effective with these resources. In a typical week I am having to create the resources to address these topics from scratch: printing, cutting, laminating and cutting again - all to have the resources ready that they need. With these supports from Super Duper I will be able to spend that time meeting their needs through more direct consultation, collaboration and instruction with the students, their teams and their families. Thank you for your consideration and support!
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