Webinar: 2023-02-28: Reframing Our Thinking as SLPs
Webinar: 2023-02-28: Reframing Our Thinking as SLPs
Reframing Our Thinking as SLPs: The Language-Literacy-Dyslexia Connection presented by Jeannene Ward-Lonergan & Robert Pieretti
February 28, 2023 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM EST
Webinar description
The Common Core Standards emphasize the relationship between language development and the successful acquisition of reading and writing. There has also been renewed emphasis in several states on recognizing the impact of language-based reading disabilities, including dyslexia, on students’ ability to succeed in school. This session will review these language-based learning disabilities and provide SLPs with practical, collaborative strategies for participating in transdisciplinary language-literacy assessment in school-based settings and review appropriate language intervention goals, transdisciplinary service delivery, and evidence-based treatment methodology.
As a result of this workshop, learners will be able to:
1: Identify areas of language SLPs may address to support literacy development in students with language disorders and language-learning disabilities including dyslexia.
2: Discuss the SLP’s role in literacy assessment in the public schools and how to link the assessment results of transdisciplinary team members in the assessment process.
3: Describe transdisciplinary treatment techniques, strategies, and approaches that may be used to support this population of students
About the presenter
Jeannene Ward-Lonergan is Co-Founder of the Language-Literacy Center (LLC) at the University of the Pacific. Dr. Ward-Lonergan has served as the Ambassador for the California Speech-Language-Hearing Association (CSHA) to the Decoding Dyslexia California (DDCA) group, and she was the CSHA Representative for the California Department of Education’s (CDE) Dyslexia Guidelines Work Group.
Robert Pieretti is the founder and Director of the Sacramento State Literacy Connection. He has been employed for the last twenty years as a Language, Speech, and Hearing Specialist in the Sacramento City Unified School District, formerly serving as the Head Language, Speech, and Hearing Specialist for the District.
