Teaching Students With Communication Disorders
A Practical Guide for Every Teacher
- Jim Ysseldyke - University of Minnesota, USA
- Bob Algozzine - University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Teaching Students With Communication Disorders offers tools to help teachers identify communication disorders, distinguish speech from language impairments, reduce common communication problems, and eliminate negative stereotypes. Providing a pre-test, post-test, key vocabulary terms, and additional resources to help teachers and speech therapists increase their understanding about communication disorders and effective intervention strategies, this valuable resource highlights:
o Criteria for identifying speech and language disorders
o Cognitive, academic, physical, behavioural, and communication characteristics of common communication disorders
o Appropriate teaching and class management strategies
o Trends and issues influencing instructional approaches and the delivery of speech and language services
This is a simple introduction to language disorders with a basic introduction to how this can impact students' learning in the classroom. Many other books on the market are written for the Speech Language Clinician, rather than the classroom teacher, so much more time is devoted to clinical and therapeutic interventions in other texts.