Best Practices: Teaching Students with Communication Disorders
Best Practices: Teaching Students with Communication Disorders
This web-based learning tool—for university students or SLPs who want to review evidence-based procedures—demonstrates 25 best practices for teaching students who have communication disorders. Each clinical procedure/strategy is defined and includes explicit video examples for viewing. PowerPoints for instructors, PDFs of additional information, quizzes for university students, and research citations of the evidence supporting the strategy are provided — all online. An easy-to-scan QR code takes the user to a website where your personal code is entered and learning begins.
5 laminated reference guides for each topic
QR codes link to videos, PDFs, and PowerPoints
Assessments to test knowledge
Provides over 10 hours of guided clinical instruction!
Email: CognitivePress@gmail.com for a PDF examination copy
Your students will be provided with a mini-lecture and video examples addressing 25 clinical skills that fall into 5 categories:
Making Learning Meaningful & Rewarding (social reward, tangible reward, edible reward, communication temptation, massed and distributed practice)
Meeting the Learner’s Needs (cloze technique, pause time, minimal pair contrasts, checking for understanding, self-monitoring/
self-correction)
Scaffolds & Supports (chunk and chain, modeling & imitation, scripts, carrier phrases, expansions & extensions)
Clear Expectations & Consistent Feedback (clear objective, specific verbal praise, general verbal praise, specific corrective feedback, general corrective feedback)
Maximizing Time/Focused Learning (foreshadowing, attending cues, evoked productions via structural priming, reactive conflict resolution)
Copy and paste this url in your browser for an example video:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NBG5r6Ut8_X4J56PoVqF_wvkz7A5dxA-/view