ASHA Learning Pass

These Perspectives (SIG 16) articles address strategies for working alongside, as well as teaching others, to improve preschool to middle school students’ performance in language, literacy, social skills, and feeding/swallowing abilities, as well as learn how others perceive speech-language pathologists’ efforts in some of these areas.

Learning Outcomes
You will be able to:

• describe reading teachers’ perceptions of speech-language pathologists (SLPs’) role in literacy intervention
• list three aspects of high-quality professional developmenttrainings that will improve the language and literacy knowledge and teaching skills of Head Start classroom volunteers
• identify two topics/skills educators may need additional training and support for when supporting the communication skills of students who useaugmentative and alternative communication
• list three intervention targets that SLPs, teachers, and parents may wish to consider in an intervention plan for adolescent females with autism spectrum disorder
• explain factors that impact SLPs’ comfort level in providing feeding and swallowing services in schools based on one’s prior medical experience or lack thereof