by Trent Wilson | Jan 30, 2018 | Reading, Speech Language
This post is a continuation of the previous blog post – LINKING SPEECH & LANGUAGE TO LITERACY. Please read on to learn about the complexities of the language system, and how it relates to reading. The purpose of reading is to extract meaning from the words...
by Trent Wilson | Jan 23, 2018 | Speech Language
Making the Case for a Speech – Language Expert as the most qualified person to teach your child reading We get distracted when we talk about reading. We think about how to teach a whole class of children. We think about how to arrange our classroom. We think about...
by Trent Wilson | Dec 12, 2017 | Speech Language
Understanding the Whole-Language Approach The Whole-Language approach to literacy is a philosophy which emphasizes the perspective that language is a meaning-making system and advocates that dren should focus on meaning and strategy instruction to determine the...
by Trent Wilson | Dec 5, 2017 | Speech Language
There is a war smouldering behind the scenes in the academic community regarding how reading should be taught, and occasionally it flares up and rages into heated battles. Why it matters to us as educators, administrators, policy makers, and school board members is...
by Trent Wilson | Sep 11, 2017 | Speech Language
Why a Speech – Language expert will make all the difference for your child I received my Linguistics degree with great distinction. In fact, I was awarded a scholarship for top graduate in the Linguistics department. Is this a humble brag? Yes. It certainly is....
by Trent Wilson | Aug 28, 2017 | Speech Improvement, Speech Language, Speech Practice
As humans, we LOVE to label things. The human brain loves to organize, categorize, find patterns, find meaning, and generally make sense of things. However, it is often in the Naming of Things that we get into trouble! Names and labels are a constraint or...
