SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY CONFERENCE
Curriculum-Based Narrative Language Assessment and Intervention:
The Missing Link for Academic Success
October 8, 2009
Prince Conference Center at Calvin College
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Sponsored by Kent Area Speech and Hearing Association
Audio recording of this conference is now available. Click below to listen to the recording (three parts).
Part 1 (all as .mp3 files)
Part 2
Part 3
The purpose of this professional learning opportunity will be to provide a curriculum-based framework to assess and intervene in the area of language comprehension and expression. This framework is question-driven and provides assessment tools that link to instructional recommendations to impact student academic success. Practical application of the narrative assessment and interventions will be provided.
Participants will be able to:
1) state the link between oral narrative skills and academic success
2) navigate a question driven curriculum-based framework to support students with language concerns
3) identify procedures to assess language comprehension and expression skills
4) score and analyze narrative and informational discourse samples
5) link instructional recommendations to student assessment results
Thursday, October 8, 2009
AGENDA
7:45 Sign-in (Lobby of the Prince Conference Center)
8:30 Overview of Curriculum-Based Evaluation – Language Framework
8:45 Personal Narratives and Scripts – Assessment and Intervention
9:45 Story Narratives – Assessment and Intervention
10:00 Break
10:15 Story Narratives – Assessment and Intervention
11:00 Case study – Practice and application
11:30 Lunch on your own
12:45 Expository (Informational) Discourse – Assessment and Intervention
2:00 Break
2:15 Case study – Practice and application
2:45 Vocabulary
3:25 Wrap up and questions
Speaker Bio:
Wendy Robinson started her career as a speech-language pathologist in 1982. She worked in a variety of service delivery models for 15 years. She has served as a language and literacy consultant where she helped school-based teams use data to develop a more efficient, proactive and systematic framework to the meet the needs of all students. Wendy has been part of a core leadership team to help design and support statewide research projects for speech-language pathologists at the preschool, kindergarten, first grade and third grade levels to improve language and literacy outcomes for students. She is currently the Assistant Director of Learning and Leadership at Heartland Area Education Agency 11 in Johnston Iowa.
This course is offered for .5 ASHA CEUs (beginning level, professional area).
Seminars @ Calvin
Calvin College
1855 Knollcrest Circle SE
Grand Rapids MI 49546-4402
616.526.8558
Fax 616.526.6682
seminars@calvin.edu
