ELCISS aims to enhance language
and communication in secondary
school children with primary
language and communication
impairment through
narrative and vocabulary
enrichment.
Victoria Joffe, who claims
responsibility for the site's
pink and purple colour scheme,
is the primary investigator on
the ELCISS research
project funded by the
Nuffield Foundation. The witty
illustrations by
Peter Hudspith and the
clever web design by
Cato
Hoeben are a joy, and the
advisory group
impressive!
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| December 2008 Literacy Outcomes and the Role of the SLP (LORS) The LORS Project was conducted in 2005-2007 and explored issues in identifying, defining, collaborating and reporting on literacy outcomes for students and the implications for speech-language pathologists’ role in early literacy. This project highlighted the requirements of the workplace as a key factor in the roles that SLPs take within schools and how SLPs report the results of their work. Many materials are provided free in return for appropriate acknowledgement of the the LORS Project. |
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| November 2008 Encyclopedia of Language and Literacy Development Launched in 2007, the Encyclopedia of Language and Literacy Development forms a component of The Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network web site. The people behind this online, free encyclopedia hope to help provide answers to questions about children's language and literacy by providing information based on relevant and up-to-date research that is presented in an easily accessible format. An interesting feature of the site is its hyperlinked listing of the ten most popular articles. This is already an outstanding resource that promises to improve with age. |
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October 2008 ISAD Conference 11 If, for ANY reason, you have an interest in stuttering (stammering) check out the 11th online stuttering conference. This is a wonderful month-long learning opportunity, and 'communication opportunity' for people who stutter, their families and employers, the professionals who work with them, students in training and their instructors. |
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| September
2008 International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication With Chapters in 14 countries, and members in 50 other countries, ISAAC supports and encourages the best possible communication methods for people who find communication difficult. ISAAC's vision is for everyone in the world who could potentially communicate more easily by using AAC to be able to do so. To make this a reality, people who use AAC, their families, therapists, teachers, researchers, people who make equipment, and people in governments will have to collaborate and cooperate. This excellent, accessible and practical web site helps make such communication possible. Well done ISAAC! 2nd Annual
International AAC Awareness Month - October 2008 Stories |
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August
2008 The Campaign to Save and Continue the University of Tennessee Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology web site represents a concerted attempt by the people closely associated with the UTK Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology and the wider professions of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology to prevent the closure of the department itself and its clinics. Larry Silverstein writes: "My Father, Dr. Bernard Silverstein, was the founding director of the Hearing and Speech Center in l953. He retired in l996 and passed away in 2003. I am working very hard to bring this issue to the attention of anyone who can help us with this battle to reject this proposal, and to urge people to make their voices heard, so that the work that my father started so successfully 55 years ago, will continue at the University of Tennessee for many, many more years to come. I am confident with the widespread support that we are generating, we will eventually convince the University that they have made a hasty and unwise decision that must be reversed. But, in the meantime, we must keep working very hard to broaden our level of support and to achieve a satisfactory resolution as soon as possible." Take action! |
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| July
2008 Speechie Keen GONE...hold on...Speechie Keen is Back!
Anonymous,
interesting and probably female, SK works in an
acute hospital as a
speech
pathologist in an Australian city
seeing a very varied caseload. This is the first
blog to actively explore the SLP/SLT
sub-specialty of acute hospital work. It covers
clinical education, workplace relationships,
leadership, mentoring, supervision and some key
clinical areas. SK is, well, KEEN to hear from
colleagues and would love you to
visit the site and post a comment.
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| JUNE 2008
Child Phonology Laboratory and Language Development in Internationally Adopted Children To mark the 10th Anniversary of these awards, energetic Speechwoman as selected TWO related sites for the Site of the Month award for June 2008. One goes to Karen Pollock, PhD for her excellent pages on speech and language development in Children Adopted from China and for her practical Information for Parents who have adopted, or who are in the process of adopting children from overseas countries. While she was exploring the site Speechwoman saw that VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED for a study of children aged 2;6 to 8;0 adopted from Haiti at least one year ago. "Internationally adopted children come from China, Russia, Korea, Guatemala, Ukraine, India, Costa Rica, and many other countries of the world. No matter which country the child is from, adoptive parents have questions about language development. Unlike feeding, crawling, or other abilities that develop continuously before and after adoption, internationally adopted children have to switch their learning over to a new language." The second award for June goes to Language Development in Internationally Adopted Children, an interesting and helpful mini-site by Sharon Glennen, PhD which is designed to provide answers to the many questions parents and professionals have about language learning following international adoption. We don't hear enough about language acquisition in older children generally, so this is very very interesting! |
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| MAY 2008
Oxford Study of Children's Communication Impairments OSCCI So eager was Speechwoman to explore the Conferences Presentations and Reference Lists on this deceptively low-key looking but content rich site that she nearly sprained her typing finger again (the last time was in 2006, you may recall) and the people left her awestruck. |
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| APRIL 2008
Tower to Trenches Judy Stone-Goldman PhD has not withdrawn from the world of work, but she has created enough time to produce a stylish and promising blog that Speechwoman plans to frequent. Subtitled Bridging Academia and the Real World, and barely six months old, it contains much that is of interest, from the very first entry to the burgeoning archive. Judy's reflections on the retirement (Middle French: re + tirer, "to draw again”) or semi-retirement process will be absorbing reading for SLPs of all ages and at all career stages. Judy writes that she has pulled back in order to redraw her life. Happily for those who explore the site, she is not only redrawing - but also recording - in a series of blog entries full of pertinent ideas and astute observations. Visit and you'll see; it's nice work. |
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| MARCH 2008
Lizzie's great article in Girlfriend Magazine "While most girls my age have boyfriends, go out every weekend and can start a can start a conversation without even thinking about it, those things are like running a marathon for me." Lizzie aged 20 combines two talents. One, she is an outstanding in-line hockey player competing at state and national levels, and two, she is a very good writer, as her nicely constructed and well expressed article in Girlfriend Magazine shows. Speechwoman has broken with tradition this month, dusted off the scanner, and uploaded Lizzie's insight-producing article about being a young woman diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome (AS). Not many females have AS, and it is good to see this terrific piece that demonstrates in no uncertain terms that, "even if you are different you can still do things." Well done Lizzie! |
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FEBRUARY 2008 Enhancing Language and Communication in Secondary Schools ELCISS |
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JANUARY 2008 Oxford Dysfluency Conference This is a very good example of innovative, clever use of the Internet. The organisers of the Eighth Oxford Dysfluency Conference have not only launched a web site but also a blog to record planning progress, and to allow others, from all over the world, to comment. The conference will take place at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford. The organisers say that for many years the ODC has been the only international conference on dysfluency in the U.K. Registration will start at noon on Thursday 3rd July 2008 and the Conference will end on Sunday 6th July 2008, at 1 pm. Contact Dave Rowley |
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