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How to Get Your Foot into the Classroom

1.0 Hours
28
Audio

Course Description

This course is presented by Sharon Ivey, a highly experienced school SLP who has done classroom therapy for 35 years. She shares valuable information as to how to get into the classroom, how to work with teachers, and what to do once you’re there. She even shared her experiences of the “push-back” of “pushing-in.” She sites several benefits of going into the classroom, the most important one being the improvement of the students and how they transfer their increased language abilities into higher reading and academic skills. Therapy tools, games and activities were shared.


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Objective

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

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1. Explain the main reason why some children who receive therapy in the classroom make more progress than children in pull-out therapy.
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2. Name several tools and/or activities that can be done in the classroom.
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3. Describe one aspect of the use of “centers” in classroom therapy.
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4. Explain several benefits of doing therapy in the classroom.

About Presenters

Char Boshart

MA, CCC-SLP

Char Boshart, MA, CCC-SLP, is a speech-language pathologist, author, seminar presenter, and president and co-founder of Speech Dynamics, Inc. She graduated with her Master’s degree from Western Michigan University under the extraordinary tutelage of Dr. Charles Van Riper, the “father” of articulation therapy during the final years of his illustrious career. Char began her career in the public schools in the early 70’s with a caseload of over 110 children. Since then, she has worked many years in the public schools, developed and ran her own private practice, and, for seven years was an Assistant Professor and Department Chair of the Speech Pathology and Audiology Department at Loma Linda University in southern California. Her interest in creating effective therapy techniques has evolved into the development of several practical articulation publications, videos (articulation and language), and articles.

Sharon Ivey

SLP

Sharon Ivey has been a speech-language pathologist for 38 years. She graduated from San Jose State University with her bachelors in Speech Pathology and Audiology, then obtained her Credential in Clinical Rehabilitation from Stanislaus State University also in California. She’s the quintessential school SLP; she has worked within two school districts. The first was for 3 years in Stanislaus, the second was in Apple Valley Unified School District in southern California. Although she recently retired from Apple Valley, she was in that district for 35 years, primarily at the elementary level.

Additional Information

Speechtherapypd.com
Introductory Level
0.10 ASHA CEU

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Course Timeline

Timeline
3 min: Introduction; her early days of going into the classroom
10 min: How to organize and structure classroom involvement; working with teachers
5 min: Types of therapy and classroom therapy activities
5 min: The use of “centers” in classroom therapy
10 min: ‘Foundation’ classes and the use of OWLs to document improvement; reading improvement; comparison of progress
5 min: Push-Back for Pushing-In
5 min: Use of PowerPoint; Reader’s Theater
5 min: Top Three Benefits of Going into the Classroom
4 min: The Final (personal) Question
8 min: Questions & Answers

Course Disclosure

The content of this course is based on the research and experience of the presenter. You are responsible to do your own research to determine if the information and skills taught are appropriate for your clients/students/patients.
Disclosure Statement for Char Boshart
Financial Char Boshart is a speaker for SpeechTherapyPD.com and receive royalty payments. She also owns and operates Speech Dynamics.
Nonfinancial No relevant non-financial relationship exists.
Disclosure Statement for Sharon Ivey
Financial Sharon Ivey received compensation for this presentation from SpeechTherapyPD.com.
Nonfinancial No relevant non-financial relationships exist.

Char Boshart

MA, CCC-SLP

Sharon Ivey

SLP

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