Kay Jones, a 4-year, 6-month old female was referred on August 31, 2011. Kay’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jones, reported concerns with speech intelligibility and desired to have Kay referred. Kay was formally assessed to identify her strengths and weaknesses, as well as comparing her scores to children her age. Formal Assessment The Hodson Assessment of Phonological Patterns, Third Edition (HAPP-3) is an objective, standardized dynamic assessment instrument. The HAPP-3 is also a norm-…
Just like selecting words for vocabulary instruction there are many different philosophies of ways in which is consider teaching high quality vocabulary instruction. The two I am going to highlight on Marzano and Graves. Dr. Robert Marzano suggest that there are 2,800 basic vocabulary terms students should know. He suggest placing those terms into semantic clusters. That means teacher places words that are related together, in order to build scaffolding. Then from those words the teacher can…
instructors can touch off the development of dialect and relational abilities in newborn children and small children. Gardner-Neblett, the principal investigator for the FPG study said, “Early language and communication skills are crucial for children's success in school and beyond. Children who develop strong language and communication skills are more likely to arrive at school ready to learn and are more likely to have higher levels of achievement." According to Gardner-Neblett, amid the…
Universal Ideas Universal ideas are essential to writing because they help shape the framework of a piece of writing. The universal idea is much like a thesis, which shapes the structure, word choice, voice, and conventions of the piece. To be a proficient writer, you need to have a strong universal idea that you can build your writing around, some examples of a universal idea could be “ambitions, love, social justice” etc. When looking at a student’s work, teachers need to consider the…
This essay will explore areas which support children in their development as readers and discuss how spoken language and different approaches, in the teaching of reading can develop and enrich children’s language comprehension skills. Reading comprehension is a process that can be developed through spoken language and different approaches to teaching reading. It means that a person understands what they are reading. Reading comprehension occurs throughout the reading process whilst a person…
• Reference: Nyberg, J., Westberg, L. R., Neovius, E., Larson, O., & Henningsson, G. (2010). Speech results after one-stage palatoplasty with or without muscle reconstruction for isolated cleft palate. Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal, 47(1), 92-103. doi:10.1597/08-222.1 − Summary of findings from above reference: Children with cleft of the hard and soft palate (CHSP) had significantly poorer speech outcomes compared to the reference group and to children with cleft of the soft palate only…
Word blindness. Those were the words that the condition that we now know as dyslexia was first called when Dr. W. Pringle published a report in the British Medical Journal in 1896 in which he wrote about a 14-year-old male that was of high intelligence but lacked the ability to read (Dyslexia, 2016). Dyslexia is typically defined as a learning disorder that is characterized by difficulty reading caused by problems identifying speech sounds and learning how those speech sounds relate to letters…
“There are six fundamental components that constitute a comprehensive “diet” for early literacy learning and instruction(Invernizzi, 2002): 1. Oral language, concepts, and vocabulary 2. Phonological awareness 3. Alphabet knowledge (PA) 4. Letter-sound knowledge 5. Concepts about print(CAP) 6. Concept of word in text(COW-T)”(Bear, Invernizzi, Templeton, & Johnston, 1996, 100).When creating the lesson…
Speech/ Language- Children communicate before even they are born. Baby in the mother womb respond to distress or loud noises by moving. Once the babies are born, he or she communicates by crying. They begin cooing by the second month and babbling between 6 and 9 months. It usually takes 3 or 4 months to reach a vocabulary of 10-30 words after the first word is spoken. The speed of language achievement is incredible. At about 18-22 months of age, the child’s vocabulary may increase from 50 to…
Shaywitz lays out the “sea of strength” model of early identification where parents and teachers can easily see the warning signs of dyslexia (p. 93). The two key components are a weakness in getting to the sounds of words with strengths in thinking and reasoning, and then ensuring the child has assistance for their weakness and accommodations for their strengths (p. 93). Some early warning signs in the primary grades for dyslexia are a delay in speaking, difficulties with pronunciation or…