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Literacy Pack: One Duck Stuck

March 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.
Can two fish, tails going swish, help? Will three moose, munching on spruce, be able to pull the unlucky duck out of the muck? Perfectly sized for small hands, this counting rhyme is a feast of sounds and numbers that will have young listeners scrambling to join the slippy, sloppy fun!
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Cultural Relevance and Informal Reading Inventory Performance: African-American Primary and Middle School Students (2018)

March 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.
This study was prompted by educators noticing a discrepancy between their students’ performance on standardized assessment tools and their performance on lessons in the classroom. Students appeared to perform better on the texts provided in the classroom, especially when they appeared culturally relevant to the students’ lives. To explore this further, researchers reviewed current research […]
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Feeding Infants with Congenital Heart Defects (CHD)

February 9, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This course will include information on the incidence of developmental co-morbidities in infants with CHD, factors related to CHD that impact pre-operative and post-operative feeding ability, the components of a feeding evaluation and strategies that assist infants with feeding difficulty, IDDSI and the impact of thickening on feeding and flow rate, and considerations for safe […]
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Where We Fail Children with Acquired Brain Injury – And What to Do About It

February 8, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Of children who experience brain injury between 5 – 15 years of age, less than 40% return for follow-up visits in first year post-injury. In this talk, we will discuss the perceived and real barriers to service access for this population and highlight current evidence supporting a variety of intervention techniques aimed at maximizing cognitive […]
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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: From Identification to Intervention

February 8, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This course explored the FASD diagnostic process, including identification and evaluation. The presenter uncovered common comorbidities and misdiagnoses for children with FASD as well as common communication deficits in people with FASD and offered techniques and intervention strategies for how to promote support and success for clients with FASD.
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Speech Processing in Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Integrative Review of Auditory Neurophysiology Findings (2021)

February 1, 2022 by Megan Berg.
A key characteristic in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is social communication deficits, with approximately 60% of children with autism being diagnosed with a language disorder and 30% with minimal or no spoken language at all. The root cause of these language deficits is still unknown. The goal of this review article is to summarize the […]
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Decoding Skills for Reading

February 1, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Decoding is essential to establishing effective reading skills. This resource includes activities that utilize Orton-Gillingham methods to help your client develop their reading skills.
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Literacy Pack: The Wonky Donkey

February 1, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This book activities pack targets literacy skills, including print motivation and awareness, letter knowledge, vocabulary, phonological awareness, and narrative skills.
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