Sandie Barrie-Blackley
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Case Studies: language sample analysis in a process-oriented assessment
Attached (below) is an exercise that I developed for an undergraduate course in Communication Sciences & Disorders. It contains written language samples collected from six language-literacy impaire...
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Daily's ""Are ya there???" interrupts client's processing
Lenore describes a situation that I have noticed, too. I asked her for permission to post her comment since I'm betting others have faced this issue and may have some good ideas for how to handle i...
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How handwriting trains the brain....and why it should be part of therapy
This picture is from Lexercise Live Broadcast 39: In Appreciation of Handwriting (View the Live Broadcast here.) Practitioners of structured literacy (aka Orton-Gillingham or O-G) methods typ...
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The Lexercise games are challenging! Why are the sounds and words so fast?
When children (and even adults!) play the Lexercise games for the first time they sometimes comment that the words and sounds are "too fast" or that they are "hard to understand". Why would the w...
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The Whiteboard Spelling Procedure
WHAT IS WHITEBOARD SPELLING? Whiteboard Spelling is a linguistically structured, direct, multisensory procedure for mastering English spelling patterns. When used as part of a structured liter...
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Using a child's Lexercise words for school spelling tests
Children with dyslexia and other language processing disorders benefit from learning spell using a structured language (O-G) approach that stresses understanding a word's structure as opposed to ...
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Fletcher, Lyon, Fuchs & Barnes (2007):Ten General Principles for Instructing Students with LDs
Learning Disabilities: From Identification to Intervention. New York: The Guilford Press by Fletcher, J.M., Lyon, G. R., Fuchs, L.S., Barnes, M.A. (2007). This is the authors’ "take-home" messa...
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The Zone of Maximal Learning (Goldilocks Practice)
Goldilocks tried out the Bears' porridge, chairs and beds ...but she enjoyed only those that were "just right". Like Golidlocks we all want things to feel just right. We all learn best from p...
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The multiple-linguistic factors approach to language-literacy therapy
The multiple-linguistic factors approach .....aka Orton-Gillingham..... aka Structured Literacy.....aka Connectivist Model Research supports a simultaneous, multiple-linguistic factors (or multip...
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Real Spelling: Making sense of English spelling
Children with language processing problems and weak working memory skills typically need this kind of explicit and logical explanation in order gain upper level literacy skills. A structured lan...