Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) Awareness Day – 10.20.23

What is developmental language disorder (DLD)?  https://dldandme.org/ Raising Awareness of Developmental Language Disorder: https://radld.org/ US Department of Education guidance on using DLD: https://www.asha.org/siteassets/advocacy/comments/OSEP-Response-Letter-to-ASHA-on-DLD-5.30.23.pdf ASHA Leader article about using the term DLD in schools: https://leader.pubs.asha.org/do/10.1044/2023-0911-slp-dld-advocacy/full/ DLD information from the National Institutes of Health: https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/developmental-language-disorder Information about DLD Light it Up Events: https://radld.org/dld-awareness-day/light-up-events/ ASHA Voices podcast with …

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Shared Book Reading – study resources

Click here for SSSR poster Templates for each of three behaviors, including specific books used: Behavior 1 – teaching print concepts  Print Concepts  Front and back of book (point to)  Title  Where is it  What do you think this says?  Author and illustrator information  Directionality Where do I begin to read  Which direction do I …

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Better Hearing and Speech Month 2022

31 days of resources to celebrate Better Hearing and Speech Month 2022 Many resources are free!  All are evidence-based or evidence-informed. See @classlab_FSU on Instagram for more information!!! 1. (Free) LARRC language curriculum: https://larrc.ehe.osu.edu/curriculum/downloads/ 2. (Free) Phonological Awareness Screening test: https://thepasttest.com/ 3. (Free) Consonant Cluster test (link takes you directly to the .pdf file – …

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Lateral lisps and EPG studies

Electropalatography (EPG) studies can help us understand how the tongue makes contact with the palate.  In these studies, vowels are examined in a variety of populations.  High vowels have consistently the most contact with the palate, whereas low vowels make little to no contact with the palate.  This has implications for the words we choose …

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Using Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a free and easy resource that can be useful to students and researchers.  There are a few particularly useful features of Google Scholar that I’d like to show you. For FSU students (especially graduate students taking my classes), please watch both parts of this video below.  This will show you a short …

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Stimulability Resources

Do you treat stimulable or non-stimulable sounds? I had a discussion about this with Rebecca at @adventuresinspeechpathology on Instagram Live (video is saved to her profile in her IGTV) Here are some resources discussed: Stimulability on Caroline Bowen’s site [FREE! includes stimulability assessment form and cards]   Storkel, H. L. (2018). Implementing evidence-based practice: Selecting …

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Why Speech Sounds Matter for Literacy

Why Speech Sounds Matter for Literacy This 1-hour presentation was recorded for the SLP Summit in January 2020.  SLP Summit is a free online conference hosted by SLP Toolkit and SLP Now.  My time for the presentation was donated and the organizers gave me this recording to use as I’d like.   I’d love any feedback! …

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ASHA 2019

Thursday presentations Imagining More for Children with Speech Sound Disorders: Beyond Speech Production Brosseau-Lapre, Vuolo, Farquharson, & Cabbage Development of the Speech & Spelling Coding Scheme Farquharson, Paulk, Kochis, Wood, & Patton-Terry Single Sound Errors in the School Setting: Is It Just Artic? Farquharson   Friday Presentations Speech Language Pathologists’ Experiences With Serving Students With …

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