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22.01.2022 In this article, Wendy Arnold and Fiona Malcolm explore why we need to develop reading skills with young learners and offer tips and advice on how we can do it. The nature of Reading ‘An estimated 122 million youth globally are illiterate, of which young women represent 60.7% .. 67.4 million children are out of school deficient or non-existent basic education is the root cause of illiteracy’. (UNESCO)... Imagine what your life would be like if you didn’t know how to read. Approximately only 80% of the world’s population is reported to be able to read (Grabe & Stoller, 2002). Read the full article here - https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/a/reading-young-learners #pspawa #speechies #speechtherapy #speechtherapyaustralia #speechtherapylife

20.01.2022 There is evidence that spelling and reading and writing offer mutual enhancement, and that the physical act of writing has benefits for beginning reading: The implication of the direct path finding is that instruction in word recognition skills will transfer more to handwriting than instruction in handwriting skills will transfer to word recognition. Instructional research is therefore needed to evaluate whether covariances or direct paths best characterize the relationships... between handwriting and word recognition in literary instruction. This research is especially needed because multisensory approaches to language remediation (e.g., Birsch, 1999) tend to assume that integrating handwriting with word recognition instruction facilitates the learning of word recognition. However, the results for the direct paths in both structural models yield evidence of bidirectional, reciprocal relationships between word recognition and spelling. Training spelling should influence word recognition and training word recognition should influence spelling (p.45). This phenotypic study (see Berninger, Abbott, et al., 2001, for additional details about method and findings) provides additional support for the claim that reading and writing systems draw on common as well as on unique processes (cf. Berninger et al., 1994; Fitzgerald & Shanahan, 2000). (p.48) Berninger, V.W., Abbott, R.D., Abbott, S.P., Graham, S., & Richards, T. (2002). Writing and reading: Connections between language by hand and language by eye. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 35, 39-56. #pspawa #speechies #speechtherapy #speechtherapyaustralia #speechtherapylife

18.01.2022 What does high functioning autism look like? Children on the spectrum, like any other children, can have a whole range of cognitive abilities. Many children diagnosed with ASD are very bright, or gifted. They may have an exceptional vocabulary and speak in sentences that sound mature for their age. They may have particular talents that match their interests and they can perform at an above-age level in an area. Life presents significant challenges for these children and th...ey require thoughtful management by those around them. Coping with life can be very difficult. Bright children often know that they are missing something or different in some way. They can be more aware of their difficulties and as a result they can be highly defensive. As a result, when faced with an uncomfortable situation they may shut down or over-react. Read the full article - http://www.pspawa.com.au/what-does-high-functioning-autism/

13.01.2022 The type of communication style adults use with children can influence their speech and language development There is a communication style between adults and children researchers call Phatics In this style, the adult tries to say nothing with any ‘content’ apart from acknowledging the child’s contribution.... - Questions are avoided - Topics are initiated by the child An example of a Phatics communication style is the following: A = Adult C = Child A: That looks good C: It’s going up high A: True C: High up to the sky A: Uh-huh C: Maybe it might fall down. Crash! A: It might! It’s very high! Researchers have found that a Phatics communication style can: - Dramatically increase a child’s length of utterance - Lead to children may beginning to tell stories Try using the Phatics communication style with your child whenever you think of it. There will be times for teaching. A mix of communication styles appears to be beneficial for children

11.01.2022 ASD it’s not all the same Autism is referred to as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) which acknowledges that the disorder has is variable and affects people to different degrees. It is often helpful to parents to know that their child probably does not exhibit all the symptoms that can be associated with ASD.... When children are diagnosed with autism, they meet particular criteria and this criteria is quite wide ranging. Children can show that they meet the criteria to a larger or lesser degree, and it can be shown by a huge range of different kinds of communication and behaviour. Read the full article on our blog - http://www.pspawa.com.au/asd-its-not-all-the-same/

10.01.2022 Our next Members Only Clinical Forum is scheduled for Thursday 25 February 2021 If you'd like to join PSPAWA and have access to our member only events and much much more, head the the website to find out all the details about the membership options http://www.pspawa.com.au/new-members/membership-categories/

10.01.2022 Helping Toddlers Expand Language Skills TIPS FOR ENCOURAGING KIDS AGE 0-5 TO TALK When we help children learn how to use language, we want to start by helping them do more of what they’re already doing by reinforcing and helping them feel proud about their attempts to communicate. Early language acquisition is instinctive and for most children tends to happen quite naturally. But how we as adults respond to their attempts to communicate can have an impactaccelerating or dece...lerating their language development Read the full article from the Child Mind Institute here https://childmind.org//helping-toddlers-expand-their-langu

04.01.2022 This is one of the most inspiring clips about dyslexia you will ever see Share it with anyone who needs to see it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHCkpLsIs4E

03.01.2022 One in five Australian children starting school 'developmentally vulnerable' Research commissioned by the Australian government has found that one in five school kids is starting school are unprepared in at least one area such as language, cognitive skills or communication. Read the full article here - https://www.smh.com.au//one-in-five-australian-children-st ... #pspawa #speechies #speechtherapy #speechtherapyaustralia #speechtherapylife

01.01.2022 In her blog, Dr Kerry Hempenstall, Senior Industry Fellow, School of Education, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia states: Overall, the data suggest that there is little value in training pre-schoolers in either letter forms or sounds in isolation in advance of providing instruction on the links between the two (Castles, Coltheart, Wilson, Valpied, & Wedgwood, 2009, p.68) So, perhaps one should bypass the oral phonemic awareness activities, and move directly to the phoni...c processes of segmenting and blending (including letters not solely sounds) because they are activities more directly salient to reading? Additionally, it has been argued that letter-sound knowledge enhances phonemic awareness skills (Carroll, 2004), so a link between letter-sound associations and phoneme awareness may have several benefits. Carroll, J.M. (2004). Letter knowledge precipitates phoneme segmentation, but not phoneme invariance.Journal of Research in Reading, 27(3), 212-225. Castles, A., Coltheart, M., Wilson, K., Valpied, J., & Wedgwood, J. (2009). The genesis of reading ability: What helps children learn letter-sound correspondences? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 104(1), 68-88. #pspawa #speechies #speechtherapy #speechtherapyaustralia #speechtherapylife #speechtherapyresources #speechtherapists #professionaldevelopment #communication #language #speech #voice #speechtherapist #speechpathologists #speechlanguagepathology #speechlanguagepathologist #speechandlanguage #speechisfun #literacy #spelling #reading #speechdevelopment #speechdelay #latetalker #slplife #slptherapy #slptherapist #slpsofinstagram #slpsfollowslps #slpworks