Language issues are a surprisingly common source of reading, spelling and writing difficulties. Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is impacting students in your classrooms and offices. Listen to Speech-Language Pathologists Kathleen Love and Beth Coppoc Gunshor as they share about observing, supporting and teaching students with language challenges, including DLD. They provide practical methods that boost oral and written language abilities using word and sentence activities rooted in meaning. Find out the importance of showing students how words are built from meaningful parts (morphemes), as well as how to unravel complex sentences so they make sense. Walk away with a better understanding of how to support the language needs of students. 

Bio description & links

Kathleen’s newsletter shares her latest musings about literacy, provides access to a ton of free curated resources, and alerts people to community events. More information about her course for literacy interventionists, Using Morphology in Literacy Intervention, can be found here. She also shares regularly and freely at Instagram and on Facebook, and her website is raincityreading.com. There you’ll also find her morphology merchandise shop with shirts and wall calendars!

Beth can be reached through her website, and also found on Instagram or Facebook. She has t-shirts and stickers for sale that are related to Structured Word Inquiry.