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Stress plays a big factor in our lives through the many tasks and activities that we have to face. It can lead to detrimental effects on our health, but studies have shown that nature and green spaces provide us with various benefits on our health. Jill Suttie’s “How Nature Can Make You Kinder, Happier, and More Creative” and Gretchen Reynolds’ “The Picture of Health” illustrate this point. Both authors present their articles with studies that shed light on the effects that nature has on us.…

Summary: Jajci Johnson has diverse strengths and needs across reading, writing, and spelling. In reading, he exhibits interest in reading by asking essential questions to better help his comprehension of the text, he uses picture cues and context to figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word, he predicts, infers, and make connections about the book, and is at an independent level in third grade sight words. For writing his strengths are incorporating many familiar sight words into his writing,…

Natalie is a fourteen year old girl who not only suffers from depression, mild PTSD that stems from traumatic childhood experiences, but also battles with nightmares and thoughts of self –harm. She lives with her mom and dad (they are still together), older brother and sister, and her emotional support dog, Ginger. Natalie is primarily home/cyber schooled, but is in the process of transitioning at least to part time brick and mortar school attendance. She has a very strong, loving, and…

The client arrived on time and appeared to be in a good mood. The client and clinician participated in a Mardi Gras activity. The client and clinician watched a video and discussed Mardi Gras culture. The client and clinician continued to target the front vowels. The client participated in an auditory discrimination task for all the front vowels. The client was able to distinguish between the vowels with 96% (22/23). Regarding drilling at the word level for the vowel /i/ (level 3 of Complexity…

“Lice or Rice” or “The Foreign Language and the Accent” Long time ago in a faraway land named Japan, a young lady was being asked by her Japanese host mother, if she wanted to eat some lice. Needless to say she was horrified! Japanese eat lice! How disgusting! She thought to herself. As she looked at her host mother she quickly realized that she was trying to say rice and not lice! This was my first experience many years ago with accents. This is when I realized how important accents are. What…

Wambaugh, Martinez, McNeil, and Rogers (1999) conducted a study to replicate and expand upon the findings of the study by Wambaugh et al. (1998). They investigated response generalization and maintenance effects of SPT for trained and untrained words. Additionally, the authors attempted to determine whether SPT could result in the overgeneralization of targeted sounds to the production of untrained or previously trained phonemes (e.g., if training the production of /k/ would result in the…

The title of the article is called “The Stop and Go Phonemic Awareness Game: Providing Modeling, Practice, and Feedback” and it is written by Jill Howard Allor, Kristin A. Gansle, and R. Kenton Denny. The authors define phonemic awareness as “the ability to recognize the individual sounds within spoken words” and it is a critical skill needed to be successful with reading acquisition (Allor, Gansle, & Denny, 2006). The authors discuss the importance of explicitly teaching phonemic awareness…

For many years, there have been disagreements between the linguistic community about the role of allophones in distinctive feature theory. Many claim that the addition of allophones to feature theory would help further the investigation of language rules; others claim that they would be superfluous and unwieldy to work with. It is my opinion that allophones should be added to the distinctive feature theory models as a method of creating a deeper analysis of the formalization of phonological…

The phrase “low expectations” usually has a negative connotation. This makes sense, because people have associated low expectations with unhappiness and failure. This is not always the case, however; sometimes having low expectations can be viewed as pleasant and helpful, whereas having high expectations can cause disappointment. Even William Shakespeare once said that expectations are the root of heartache. Lowering expectations can positively impact happiness by changing one’s outlook on life,…

Background Information Carmen is a seven-year-old second-grade student in Mrs. F class. According to Mrs. F, Carmen’s reading current reading level is performing at a low first-grade reading level. She is extremely social inside and outside of the classroom. When in class, Carmen likes to help her peers when she is given the opportunity. Outside with her friends, Carmen is social with any student that is interested becoming her friend. Carmen is focused on her school studies and does not give up…