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Tool Tuesday: ReVISITING Google Earth

Tool Tuesday: ReVISITING Google Earth

September 30, 2024

With the school year back in full swing, our posts will resume highlighting simple tools, tech or non-tech, that we can use to teach about narrative and expository language in conjunction with MindWing’s methodology. In the past, I have highlighted the now-simpler Google Earth and wanted to revisit this topic in the light of some recent sessions I have had with students. Though Google Earth initially was a complicated downloadable application, it has evolved into a web version accessible by simply navigating to it in your browser (earth.google.com).
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Tool Tuesday: Summer Study Series Part 4—“A Recent Look at Evidence-Based Expository Intervention”

Tool Tuesday: Summer Study Series Part 4—“A Recent Look at Evidence-Based Expository Intervention”

August 26, 2024

In this 4th and final entry in the Summer Study Series for 2024, we will circle back to the expository side of language. Teresa Ukrainetz has always been one of my go-to experts on a number of aspects of discourse, and literally wrote the book on “Conceptualized Language Intervention.” It was with some excitement that I discovered her recent article, “Evidence-Based Expository Intervention: A Tutorial for Speech-Language Pathologists” (2024).
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Tool Tuesday: Summer Study Series Part 3—Considering Narrative and Neurodiversity

Tool Tuesday: Summer Study Series Part 3—Considering Narrative and Neurodiversity

July 30, 2024

With this 3rd entry in 2024’s Summer Study Series, we look at a recent article that promotes neurodiversity-affirming approaches and how narrative language intervention fits within this recent topic. To offer a simplification, the neurodiversity movement has emerged in recent years as autistic individuals aged toward adulthood. Social media in particular has given autistic culture an amplified voice, and this population has expressed opinions about their educational experiences and what has been helpful, and in some cases, harmful to them...
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Tool Tuesday: Summer Study Series Part 2— “Ideas on Scaffolding Play through Narratives”

Tool Tuesday: Summer Study Series Part 2— “Ideas on Scaffolding Play through Narratives”

June 24, 2024

This month we will look at a study using play contexts to build narrative language. It’s notable that since the publication of this 2020 study, “Believing in Make‐Believe: Efficacy of a Pretend Play Intervention for School‐Aged Children with High‐Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder,” there have been some significant shifts in our field’s focus towards neurodiversity-affirming language and approaches. For example, we should avoid stigmatizing labels such as “high-functioning”...
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