SeeHearSpeak Podcast

Episode 5: SLPs role in early identification of autism, parents' social skills, & clinical practice research with Megan Roberts

Meg Roberts, PhD, Assistant Professor,
​Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University

Articles and Resources

• Dr. Robert's Lab website
• Dr. Robert's Lab Facebook page
• Instagram
• Provider Registry: 
  • Participating in the registry allows members of the EIRG to tell you about current and future research opportunities. This will also add you to the EIRG listserv to learn about upcoming free CEU events, including webinars and seminars on evidenced-based practices.
• Dr. Roberts’ publications
• ASHA Leader Article on SLPs seeing and talking about early signs of Autism

Is feeding the new play? Are all pacifiers created equal? What are long-term speech and language outcomes for preterm infants? Pediatric Feeding, Speech, and Language with Emily Zimmerman

Emily Zimmerman, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders; Director of the Speech and Neurodevelopment Lab, Northeastern University

Favorite Children’s Books:

• Roald Dahl
• Little Dracula’s First Christmas ​​

Articles and Resources

• ​Emily's Lab website  (Find all of Emily’s publications here!)
• Emily's Lab on Facebook
• X: @emzimmy
• Do Infants Born Very Premature and Who Have Very Low Birth Weight Catch Up With Their Full Term Peers in Their Language Abilities by Early School Age?
• Is Feeding the New Play? 
• Kindergarten Classroom Functioning of Extremely Preterm/Extremely Low Birth Weight Children
• Feeding Matters
• Emily on ‘Down the Hatch’ podcast

News Stories about Emily’s work:

• https://www.adinstruments.com/heroes/dr-emily-zimmerman
• https://web.northeastern.edu/routes/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Vital-Signs_Summer-2017_Binkies-Do-More-than-Pacify.pdf
• https://news.northeastern.edu/2018/12/10/a-northeastern-professor-wants-premature-infants-to-thrive-in-the-hospital-this-simple-fix-might-help/
• https://news.northeastern.edu/2018/10/05/researchers-receive-13-2-million-to-continue-study-of-health-challenges-facing-women-children-in-puerto-rico/

Learn about recent controversies surrounding eligibility for speech treatment, those 'new' speech sound norms, and advocacy for your 'artic' kids.

Holly Storkel, Ph.D., Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Innovation and Student Success, The University of Kansas
Kelly Farquharson, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Associate Professor, Florida State University; Director of the Childrens' Literacy and Speech Sound Lab (CLaSS Lab)

Favorite Children's Books:
Holly

• Judy Blume books

Kelly

• The Sneetches by Dr. Seuss
• Elephant and Piggy books by Mo Willems

Articles and Resources
Holly Storkel

• Holly's Lab website
• Holly's Lab on Facebook
• X: @hstorkel

Kelly Farquharson

• ​Kelly's Lab website
• Kelly's Lab on Facebook
• X: @literacyspeech

• Open Access Clinical Forum Prologue: Speech Sound Disorders in Schools: Who Qualifies?
• Open Access Clinical Forum: Using Developmental Norms for Speech Sounds as a Means of Determining Treatment Eligibility in Schools
• Open Access Clinical Forum: It Might Not Be “Just Artic”: The Case for the Single Sound Error
• Open Access Clinical Forum: Standardized Tests and the Diagnosis of Speech Sound Disorders
• Open Access Clinical Forum: Eligibility and Speech Sound Disorders: Assessment of Social Impact
• Clinical Research for SLPs on Facebook (Storkel and Farquharson are part of admin for this group)
• Farquharson, Storkel, & McLeod ASHA 2018 presentation handouts
• McLeod and Crowe 2018 Speech Norms Across Languages Article
• Seminars in Speech and Language: Special issue on articulation and speech disorders
  • https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2018_PERS-SIG1-2018-0014
  • https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2018_PERS-SIG1-2018-0019
• Blog about the 'new' speech norms by Meredith Harold
• Kelly Farquharson interviewed on the True Confessions podcast about this topic

Learn about the neurodiversity view of learning disabilities like dyslexia, considerations for label stigma in the context of early identification of reading deficits, and how to apply principles of Universal Design for Learning in intervention.

Gabrielle Rappolt-Schlichtmann, Adjunct Lecturer, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Founder & Executive Director, EdTogether, Inc. |  | ​Alyssa Boucher, Clinical Assistant Professor, Boston University ​

Favorite Children’s Books:
Gabbie

• King Hugo’s Huge Ego by Chris Van Dusen

Alyssa

• The Circus Ship by Chris Van Dusen 

Articles and Resources:
Gabbie Schlichtmann

• ​Gabbie’s blog
• Gabbie on twitter: @g_schlichtmann
• Gabbie on being a scientist with dyslexia

Alyssa Boucher
Study at Boston University

• We are currently recruiting preschool children (ages 4‐6) with speech sound disorders. Our goal is to learn more about the relationship between motor speech difficulties and early literacy skills. We are also gathering data for a new measure to help better identify and understand speech problems in young children. To learn more about the study, please email [email protected].

Neurodiversity

• From deficit remediation to capacity building: Learning to enable rather than disable students with dyslexia 
• The Advantages of Dyslexia
• Made by Dyslexia
• Noticeability
• Understood for learning and attention issues

Label Stigma

• Stigma Consciousness among adolescents with learning disabilities: Considering individual experiences of being stereotyped  
• Recursive processes in self-affirmation: Intervening to close the achievement gap 
• Samantha Daley’s study of psychological influences on reading comprehension
• “When the Classroom Feels Hostile: How Stigma, Stereotype, and Labels can
  Affect Kids with Learning Disabilities”
• The National Center for Learning Disability’s report on practical strategies to support students’ with LD self-advocacy and self-determination
• Labels, identity and narratives in children with primary speech and language impairments
• Well-Being and Resilience in Children With Speech and Language Disorders
• Attributional retraining  
• The Upside of Stress 

Universal Design for Learning 

• Open resource article explaining UDL
• Universal Design for Learning 
• Universal Design for Learning Series 
• What is CAST? 
• UDL #5: Top five technology trends in special education 
• Leap into LD micro-podcast
• Listening versus reading
• Using podcasts in class​

In this short introduction to SeeHearSpeak podcast, I tell you a bit about myself and why I decided to record a podcast.

This inaugural episode of SeeHearSpeak podcast tackles the 'Reading Wars' with accomplished scholars Anne Castles and Kate Nation, authors of a recent comprehensive mega-paper that is sure to be THE go-to seminal write-up on this critically important discussion of reading instruction.

Anne Castles, Professor, Macquarie University Sydney Australia 
Kate Nation, Professor, University of Oxford, St. John's College, England

Article:

• "Ending the Reading Wars: Reading Acquisition From Novice to Expert"

​Other relevant content:

• Educate Podcast on the reading wars
• Follow up to the Educate Podcast
• Opinion Piece, Another Follow up to the Educate Podcast
• TES podcast with Anne Castles discussing the need for phonics for all children
• Video of Education Debate in Australia
• TES article by Kate Nation "What Teachers Need Know About Shared Reading"
• What research tells us about reading instruction. Rebecca Treiman commentary on Reading Wars paper: 
• Dr. Hogan's clinical forum on Dyslexia