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SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPIST‐TEACHER COLLABORATION IN A LITERACY SUMMER SCHOOL
Author(s) -
Drew Marguerite Froscher
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
international journal of language and communication disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.101
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1460-6984
pISSN - 1368-2822
DOI - 10.3109/13682829809179489
Subject(s) - spelling , psychology , literacy , reading (process) , phonics , context (archaeology) , attendance , mathematics education , pedagogy , primary education , linguistics , paleontology , philosophy , economics , biology , economic growth
This paper describes the collaboration between a speech and language therapist and a special needs teacher to provide an intensive phonics‐based programme of reading and spelling instruction in the context of a literacy summer school for students about to enter secondary school. The students' reading and spelling abilities were tested before and after the summer school. All the students benefited from the summer school in many ways. Various factors, such as innate language ability, attendance, completion of homework and age, appeared to contribute to the degree of improvement of individual students.