Episode 41: Shining Lights on Assessment Challenges with AAC

Dr Archibald welcomes Paula Filangeri, a speech-language pathologist from Leamington, ON. Paula introduces us to WH-questions, a practical tool for empowering parents and learners to support language. She delves into her strategies to support vocabulary and grammatical complexity from children in the classroom.

Speech-Language Pathologist Lindsay Sharpe from the Louis Riel School Division in Winnipeg, MB returns for a third episode to speak with Dr Archibald on augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). She speaks on the challenges of AAC assessment and explores some of the tools she has tested and uses every day practice as a school speech-language pathologist.

Dans cet épisode, Chantal s’entretient avec trois invitées ayant participé à la conception de la ressource pédagogique gratuite « Lire un jour, lire toujours! », une plateforme Web visant à soutenir l’enseignement explicite et structuré de la lecture en français. Les invitées présentent la genèse du projet, ses fondements pédagogiques et son intégration en classe, tout en mettant en lumière les nombreuses ressources offertes (fiches pédagogiques, activités, outils d’évaluation et guides d’intervention). L’épisode aborde également l’apport essentiel de l’orthophoniste dans le développement et l’utilisation de la ressource, notamment pour soutenir les élèves aux besoins variés en littératie.

In this episode, Dr Archibald welcomes Dr Sean Redmond, a professor from the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah with almost 30 years of lecturing experience. Dr Redmond shares what he learned comparing kids with developmental language disorder (DLD) to kids who have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). He discusses the co-occurrence of DLD and ADHD and what that looks like in terms of both language development and the progression of ADHD symptoms.

In this episode, Lindsay Sharpe, a speech-language pathologist who works in the Louis Riel School Division out of Winnipeg, MB, returns to continue her conversation on AAC use. She identifies the increase in the number of students with communication disorders in her school division and working to have sufficient intervention and programming for these students. She describes this new pressure put on school teams to ensure that they're getting the programming, the intervention and the goals set for them that they really need. She explains how support teams can adapt to AAC users' unique needs using this complex system of communication.

In this episode, Dr. Theresa Pham – a researcher and speech-language pathologist (S-LP), and Melissa Fiesser, a classroom teacher – team up as an S-LP and teacher team to discuss Talk Moves, sentence starters and gestures that students can use to join or invite others into conversations.

Dans cet épisode, Véronique Boisvert, propriétaire de la clinique privée Birchwood Circle of Care à Fort McMurray, nous présente son parcours et le travail de son équipe auprès d’enfants d’âge scolaire dans divers milieux. Elle nous parle de son approche centrée sur le client, de ses interventions auprès des communautés autochtones, ainsi que de ses ressources préférées et de quelques astuces pratiques.

In this special episode, Dr Lisa Archibald speaks with Lindsay Sharpe, a speech-language pathologist who works in the Louis Riel School Division out of Winnipeg, MB. She describes her efforts in advocating for the use of AAC devices and for AAC consultants in the classroom. She also describes various tools, strategies, and assessments to maximize the use of AAC devices.

In this episode, Dr. Archibald speaks with Karla Gutierrez, a speech-language pathologist at the Louis Riel School Division in Winnipeg, MB. Karla speaks on her eight-year journey in supporting teachers to teach literacy in the classroom through a foundation of relationships and co-teaching. She talks about the importance of teaching across skills (phonemic awareness, vocabulary, reading, writing) and her work on a district-wide literacy team.

Vibhuti Jethava – adjunct lecturer at the University of Toronto and speech-language pathologist – teams up with Jocelyn Kadish – who has lecturing experience at McMaster University, the University of Toronto, and the University of Cape Town – to speak with Dr Lisa Archibald on the speech-language pathology work setting of providing assessment and consultation for children with mental health needs. They discuss topics on identifying language needs, providing mental health therapy through language mediation, the impact of language on social functioning, the use of language on self-regulation of emotion and behaviour, and more through the lens of speech-language pathologists.