Given the characteristics of the rehabilitation therapy specialty and the drawback of the traditional didactic teaching approach, we developed the innovative teaching approach from the students’ perspective using the person–environment–occupation (PEO) model. The new model was developed from the origina...
If your child is old enough to be learning phonics at school, he may already have pretty good phonemic awareness. But phonological/phonemic awareness is vitally important as the foundation on which to build his reading skills, so you can still go through our curriculum with him, if only to ...
While Collins et al.‘s (2016) study examined a speech-language pathologist who became virtually available to students and staff at a school, Mhishi et al. (2012) focused on the pedagogical development of teachers specifically through virtual and open source means. There were mixed findings of...
In another study in which the effect of text-to-speech application as an assistive technology on reading in children with reading difficulties was examined, similar results were obtained and it was seen that this technology increased the reading speed of children with reading difficulties. However, ...
In China, rehabilitation therapy at undergradu- ate educational level is an application-oriented specialty including physiotherapy, occupational therapy (OT), speech therapy, and Chinese traditional rehabilitation etc., aiming to train rehabilitation therapists with a vari- ety of skills [5, 6]. ...
We can’t imagine living in the colourless world. Colours have a deep impact on our lives and give a new dimension to our thoughts and perspective. In speech-language therapy, colours are taught as the part of the standard language battery.For adults, learning some mixed colours can be an...
Tomorrow, in therapy, I will ask her again how to get a grip on things – enough so that I might get through a day at school without having to do such hard battle with such persistent emotions. And I will continue to pray that I will find such joy and distraction within my classroom...
First, unlike speaking and understanding speech, human brains are not hard-wired for reading. As you can see below, reading is an extremely complex act that involves many areas of the brain, which is why learning to read can be challenging for many. Yet what better motivation can there be...
communication and language, the aim of which instruments is teaching meaning in specific procedures with the use of symbols and pictures, etc., as an aid for children using alternative communication. The goal of AAC is to break the speech barrier between a child with speech difficulties and the...
Therefore, more elaborate methods of implementation, such as a monitoring mechanisms for learning EFL vocabularies through the message services of cell phones, an annotation system for reading e-books (e.g., Hwang, Shadiev, & Huang, 2011), speech recognition for providing feedback to students' ...