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How Speech Language Pathologists Can Help Children with Selective Mutism This Spring
SM is a specific anxiety disorder that renders children unable to speak due to a fear of embarrassment and/or excessive shyness.
What Teachers Need to Know About Selective Mutism
SMart Center helps children with selective mutism find their voice
Loud noises change how brain processes speech
For the first time, scientists are beginning to understand how hearing damage changes the brain so it is harder to process speech, especially in noisy environments.
This Charming Animated Spot Will Help the Speech Impaired Find a Unique Voice
Meet Goldivox. She's pretty similar to the classic fairytale character Goldilocks, except for one main difference. Goldilocks set off on a journey to find a perfectly prepared bowl of oatmeal, while Goldivox, a speech-impaired young girl, sets out on a quest to find the perfect voice for her.
Finding Voice: Treating Selective Mutism and Social Anxiety
“ Finding Voice is a treasure trove of information for treating the relatively rare condition of selective mutism. I highly recommend it to anyone challenged to support both the child who cannot find his way out of a trap of silence and the individuals who so desperately want to help." - Kate Hefty, NCSP, Communiqué, published by The National Association of School Psychologists (NASP)<br>Often baffling…
Why the Language We Use About Learning Determines Inclusivity
The practice of deeper learning can draw suspicion from parents who aren't familiar with how it works. The Expeditionary Learning model has helped bridge some of those gaps.
What is Selective Mutism?
Get a better understanding of selective mutism and what it looks like in today's classroom. Then get more tips for working with students with selective mutis...
Why Slowing Down Stimuli to Real Time Helps a Child’s Brain
Studies with wooden blocks show "that children who play with blocks learn language better and have better cognition."
Hear What Shakespeare Sounded Like in the Original Pronunciation
What did Shakespeare’s English sound like to Shakespeare? To his audience? And how can we know such a thing as the phonetic character of the language spoken 400 years ago?
Apps to Support Diverse Learners in the Classroom
Apps can help diverse learners by gamifying their tasks, coaching them on social cues, prioritizing their time, strengthening their math skills, and sharpening their language abilities.
Raising Confident Girls: When Apologizing Is Not a Good Thing
Helping your daughter drop unnecessary apologies and begin using clear, direct language will give her a powerful tool for success in the future.
Seth's Blog: Not even once?
It's so easy to have a black and white list of the things you're not capable of doing. A hard limit, a boundary that says you just don't have the genes to make art, speak up, write, give a speech,...
Open-ended Questions to Encourage Conversation
Why is it important to ask students open ended questions? It encourages academic thinking and conversation, especially among English Language Learners. Get tips for using open ended questions in your classroom.
Building the musical muscle
Charles Limb performs cochlear implantation, a surgery that treats hearing loss and can restore the ability to hear speech. But as a musician too, Limb thinks about what the implants lack: They don't let you fully experience music yet. (There's a hair-raising example.) At TEDMED, Limb reviews the state of the art and the way forward.
How to Talk with Children about Hate Speech
How Lipreading and Speech Reading Can Help Those with Hearing Loss
Santa Claus may be the hardest person on earth to lipread — or, more properly, speech read. He is, in fact, a speech reader’s nightmare, thanks to the big, fuzzy beard and mustache that obscure his lips, the tight, padded suit that restricts his movement, and his crinkly, barely visible eyes — all things that keep us from effectively reading his lips, face and body to figure out what he’s saying. That’s because speech reading involves all these visual clues gleaned …
The Power Of Positive Speech: How Choosing The Right Words Defines Your Reality
The research on the use of positive language to change mood, behavior and physical well-being is abundant—and abundantly clear. When we regularly use a more buoyant language to describe our lives we stimulate frontal lobe activity, which actually allows us to maintain a more positive outlook.
Why consonants are essential to speech intelligibility
Vowels have more energy but it's the consonants that can make or break speech intelligibility. In order to ensure high speech intelligibility you must preser...
