"Language and Literacy Connections: Ten Steps Toward Relevant Intervention for School-Age Children"by Nickola Wolf Nelson, PhD, CCC-SLPABSTRACT: Language and literacy development are related reciprocally at the sound, word, sentence, and discourse level. Assessment and intervention practices that draw on these reciprocal relationships are important for meeting the needs of school-age children and adolescents. Ten steps are presented for combining spoken and written language instruction and intervention in inclusive classroom settings.Dr. Nelson is the Charles Van Riper Professor of Speech Pathology and Audiology and Director of the Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Health Studies program at Western Michigan University. She earned her doctorate from Wichita State University in 1973 and is the recipient of the first annual Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders Outstanding Alumni Award. This presentation is sponsored by the WSU Student Speech-Language-Hearing Association in recognition of Better Hearing and Speech Month, which begins May 1.Location: Ahlberg Hall, room 201Go to www.wichita.edu/csd for registration details.
