Sandie Barrie-Blackley
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Lexercise Descriptor: an online vocabulary-building game
Descriptor is the Lexercise online game for Station 5 (vocabulary). As with the other Lexercise games, the words used in the game are those from the client’s current Word Bank, selected b...
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Funding Sources for Lexercise Evaluation and/or Treatment
Here are some possible funding sources for Lexercise evaluation and/or treatment: FOR ALL AGES: 1) Use a credit card to make the purchase and stretch out the payments. You will pay interest, ...
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What Causes Reading & Spelling Problems?
Brain Science & Technology Team Up to Help Struggling Readers & Writers By Sandie Barrie Blackley, MA/CCC-SLP, ASHA Fellow A hundred years ago illiteracy was not uncommon in the United States, ...
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Getting started with Lexercise and a structured literacy approach
GETTING STARTED WITH A STRUCTURED LITERACY (aka ORTON-GILLINGHAM) APPROACH FOR TREATING LANGUAGE-LITERACY DISORDERS I. What is a structured literacy (aka Orton-Gillingham) approach and how does ...
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How can I send a copies of clients' Lexercise progress reports to parents?
An easy way to send clients (or parents) a copy of progress reports is turn the report in to a pdf and send it by email attachment.* The graph and the colors are preserved in a .pdf. Here is how:...
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Glossary- language structure terms (modified from Moats, 2000)
Glossary- language structure terms (modified from Moats, 2000 and Moats, 2010)) Term Definition R-controlled syllable Pertaining to a vowel immediately followed by...
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Explicit teaching: multisyllabic words and schwa vowels (Level 14)
Explicit teaching is a necessary component of good direct instruction. Explicit teaching is characterized by: 1) clearly defined terms 2) a complete explanation of how the concept works 3) init...
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How do I decide at what level my client should begin in the Lexercise Scope & Sequence?
WHERE TO BEGIN ? The Z-Screener is a step-wise procedure for evaluating the orthographic processing required in the first 13 Levels of Lexercise. It focuses on: 1) the (five) short vowel ...
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Why does Isolator use a right hand for sound segmenting?
Consensus research tells us that speech sound awareness (aka, phonemic awareness) is a necessary underpinning for reading and spelling. To read and write fluently, the brain centers tha...
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Daily practice: Won't it get boring?
Some clinicians and parents wonder if practice with Lexercise everyday will "get boring." This question really goes way beyond Lexercise to the more general issue of distributed practice. There...