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- 1. Pine Spring Speech and Language Program Becky Roed, M.Ed., SLP, CCC-school speech clinician
- 2. Meet the clinician: Hi, I’m Becky Roed. I received both my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the University of Central Oklahoma. I have been working as a speech clinician for 18 years, 15 of those years in Fairfax County. This year will be my 11 th at Pine Spring. This is the best school I have ever worked at!
- 3. Here’s what I do: Help children with articulation, language, voice, fluency or swallowing disorders. Conduct evaluations to determine the above disorders and write reports. Write Individualized Education Plans for each student who qualifies for services. Consult and collaborate with teachers to benefit my students.
- 4. More of what I do: Monitor and follow up on students suspected of having difficulties in the above areas. Conduct Kindergarten screenings and new student screenings. Participate in Local Screening Committee and Identified Students Committee.
- 5. Still more things I do: Keep up on technology skills SCA sponsor FEA rep Play Bobcat basketball Make bulletin boards BUS DUTY!!
- 6. Any questions? If you think your child may have a disorder in one of the areas I work on, you can call the school at 571-266-4400 or call my office at 571-226-4466 and leave a voice mail. I will get back to you as soon as possible to answer your questions. See my pamphlet: The Language/Reading Connection, below.
- 7. The Language/Reading Connection By Rebecca L. Roed, M.Ed., S.L.P.-C.C.C. Use your STRONGEST language! Many parents who do not speak English as their first language want to prepare their children for English-speaking schools. They may interact using older siblings or use their weaker language-English. This may seem like a good solution, but instead, it is very detrimental to the child’s language development, reading development and parent/child relationship. Your child will learn English when he gets to school AND he will learn it better if he has a solid language base in his home language. It is not WHICH language a child learns
- 8. first that impacts his learning, but not having adequate language development to understand concepts, vocabulary, word and sentence structure and social language by the time he gets to kindergarten. For more information contact your school Speech Clinician, Head Start Program or your area Child Find Office. You are your baby’s first teacher
- 9. Parent Questions: 1. How does reading to a baby help him later in school? Children who been read to have had more chances to learn: sounds of language, discriminate between similar sounds/ words, understand social rules know correct sentences and word structure, learn concepts of print (right to left, top to bottom, page turning) and gain knowledge of a wide variety of things. Singing to babies teaches rhythm and rhyming.
- 10. Questions Continued… 2. How much should I read to my child? Children need to be read to for at least 1000 hours from birth to kindergarten to help them become familiar with language, concepts they will be expected to understand in school. 3. I work a lot and don’t have time or energy to read to my child. What can I do? *older siblings, friends, grandparents, babysitters can read to her. *set aside just 1/2 hour/ day to read/talk to your child. *on a day off, go to the Library. Most Libraries have programs where children can be read to-and they’re FREE!
- 11. More Questions… 4. How old should my child be to be read or talked to? 1 HOUR OLD! *expose your baby to language and print from birth *talk to him about anything. You will see him respond even though he doesn’t understand the words! Children will read more if they see their parents reading.
- 12. A Few More Questions… 5. Should my child just sit and listen? Sitting and listening are important skills to prepare your child for school, BUT … birth to 4-years: *a baby will attend to the pictures and to your face *a 1-year-old will point to familiar pictures *a 2-year-old will start repeating words you or say or want you to name pictures. *3-4 year-olds can answer simple questions about pictures or actions in a book. 6. Why do this? *to help your child understand question forms *to help you know if they understand what’s in the book
- 13. One Last Question… 7. What should I read to my child? *what he likes (this may be the same book every day)! *books with interesting pictures *a variety of types of books: farm, zoo, jungle, different countries, ABCs, rhyming, alliteration (repeating sounds), even books without words-she can make up her own story! *Also, read signs, grocery lists, comics, appropriate sections of the newspaper-ANYTHING! Hint: by 3 years a child should learn to identify his name. He will start looking for his first letter in the print you expose them to... that’s READING! Bedtime stories can calm your child after an exciting day. Pine Spring Elementary School 7607 Willow Lane Falls Church, VA 22042 Phone: 571-226-4400 FAX: 571226-4497 Email: rebecca.roed@fcps.edu