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Berryman, Joan D.; Neal, W. R., Jr. – 1983
This final report documents the achievements of the State of Georgia Department of Education Speech-Language Pathology Assessment Project (SPAP), which examined competencies needed by school speech-language pathologists and developed the Speech-Language Pathology Assessment Instrument (SPAI) to assess those competencies. Trainees, instructed in…
Descriptors: Certification, Competence, Disabilities, Evaluation Methods
Berryman, Joan D.; Neal, W. R., Jr. – 1984
The report documents the achievements of the SPAP (Speech-Language Pathology Assessment Project), which examined competency statements for beginning speech-language therapists. Noted are the development and revision of the SPAI (Speech-Language Pathology Assessment Instrument), a training conference for using the SPAI, practice assessment of…
Descriptors: Communication Disorders, Competence, Evaluation Methods, Speech Therapy
Carpenter, Linda J. – 1983
The study investigated the status of clinician services to limited- and non-English proficient (LEP/NEP) children with communication disorders. Surveys of speech/language pathologists, school districts, and professional organizations were undertaken. Results revealed the prevalence by type of communication disorders (language disorders were the…
Descriptors: Communication Disorders, Elementary Secondary Education, Incidence, Limited English Speaking
Karr, Susan T.; And Others – Principal, 1996
Once limited to correcting articulation and lisps, speech-language pathologists now work with students with wide-ranging disabilities and educational needs. Principals should support their efforts to help teachers integrate speech and language goals with students' academic objectives, conduct screening and diagnostic assessments, develop…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Communication Disorders, Disabilities, Elementary Education
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Lass, Norman J.; And Others – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1989
A questionnaire concerned with various aspects of hearing aids was completed by 88 speech-language pathologists from six southern states. Results indicated some deficiencies in knowledge, exposure, and attitudes concerning hearing aids and hearing aid wearers. Implications and suggestions for graduate education and continuing education are…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Continuing Education, Graduate Study, Hearing Aids
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Shapiro, David A. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1994
Four interaction analysis systems served as the basis of a descriptive self-study in which 10 supervisory conferences between a graduate student clinician in speech-language pathology and her doctoral-level supervisor were transcribed and analyzed. Results are reviewed to profile a supervisor's and supervisee's objectives, critique the instruments…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Higher Education, Interaction Process Analysis, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
Ohio State Legislative Office of Education Oversight, Columbus. – 1999
This report evaluates the availability of speech-language pathologists, audiologists, physical therapists, and occupational therapists to provide federally required services to students with disabilities in Ohio schools. Findings include the following: (1) while there is a general shortage of therapists, schools tend to have more difficulty…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Labor Market, Needs Assessment
Harlan, Nancy T; Tschiderer, Patricia A. – 1986
Two teaching models of a service delivery program designed to prevent speech-language problems in lower socioeconomic children were compared. Specific goals included increasing mothers' awareness of the sensory input to which infants are responsive and increasing mothers' abilities to read infant nonverbal signals. In Model 1, two speech-language…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs, Early Parenthood, Infants
Showalter, Robert G. – 1983
The report summarizes achievements of a 3 year project to provide continuing education to speech-language-hearing clinicians and special education personnel via a speaker telephone. Committees were formed in each participating district to plan for staff development based on local needs. Consultants chosen to present training were asked to mail any…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Cost Effectiveness, Delivery Systems, Disabilities
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Beck, Ann R. – Journal of Children's Communication Development, 1995
This article describes results of a survey of licensed Midwestern school-based speech-language pathologists (N=326) regarding methods used to assess the language of children ages 3 to 5 years, 6 to 11 years, and 12 to 18 years. Striking similarities were found in methods used for each age group. The relationship of these methods to recommended…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Educational Practices, Evaluation Methods, Intervention
Hoffman, Paul R.; Norris, Janet A. – Journal of Childhood Communication Disorders, 1994
This study compared reading gains of low-socioeconomic status, at-risk kindergarten students within two curricula collaboratively written by classroom teachers and speech-language pathologists. Compared to the alphabet-based curriculum, the whole-language curriculum showed greater gains in the use of print to represent meaning and similar gains in…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Cooperation, High Risk Students, Instructional Effectiveness
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Fitch, James L.; McRay, Laura Beth – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1997
Responses (N=467) of speech language pathologists to a questionnaire were examined to determine factors affecting computer use by public school speech-language pathologists. The primary factors identified were grouped into three categories: motivation, training, and opportunity. Integration of the computer into clinical services should…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Impairments
Reid, Jennifer; And Others – Interchange, 1996
This report describes a research project that studied: the speech and language needs of Scottish children and young people with special educational needs, collaboration among parents and professionals, and the perceived effectiveness of different ways of providing speech and language therapy. Data were obtained from a series of mailed…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Language Impairments