The relationship between speech, language, reading, social connection can be best described with the saying
SPEAK TO READ..READ TO WRITE..
In becoming literate...we open up not only a person's ability to read but to be literate. That is, to become literate means to become a thinker. When empowering an individual to think, you teach them beyond the defined cognitive ability but provide them with tools to become thinkers in the world. You task them to look at the world (home, school, work, community) with brains that are able to think, understand, communicate their knowledge, and navigate within this world.
Ann Ketch has states
Conversation is the basis for critical thinking. It is the thread that ties together cognitive strategies and provides students with the practice that becomes the foundation for reading, writing, and thinking.
When providing remediation services, it is essential that therapists and families understand the full cirle connection of spoken language, reading fluency, reading comprehension, written language.
This right to be literate, to be verbal, the right to have social opportunity/expectations/skills is for all children regardless of motor abilities, speech abilities, cognitive abilties.
In order to teach the nontraditional learner...
1. One must understand the connection betwen speech-language-reading-social
2. One must BELIEVE that children with disabilities CAN LEARN!
3. One must understand that untraditional learners cannot be approached with traditional means.
4. One must understand that context, personal relevance are essential to learners from a working, short-term, and long term memory standpoint.
5. A speech-language pathologist is instrumental in the reading process and should be the leader of reading programs...COME ON SLPS!!!
6. A reading program will be created and there is always something new under the sun..what hold's true is Evidenced Based Practice and Research. Language and Reading programs must rely heavily on the 5 components of a reading program and should move dynamically with the client.
7. Understand that EVERYTHING IS SOCIAL. Social includes reasoning, nonliteral language, comprehension, etc.
8. Speech sound therapy should have clear association to phonological awareness, reading sounds, spelling in an effort to make sense of the target sounds.
Just some tips to understand the full circle approach to speech-language-reading-social
Landria