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Language Intervention

An early draft of an article prepared for an unpublished special edition of the Journal of Special Education in the 1980' is presented here. Readers are directed to pages 18 and 19 for information about inter- and trans-disciplinary approaches to communication, language and speech intervention.

facilitating language or speech development

Using a theme based creative art activity about winter snow, this speech and language clinician watches and listens as the child paints and talks about snow flakes. The SLP initiates, responds, reinforces and corrects as appropriate. The clinician is providing a model for the teacher, teacher’s assistant, and other therapists.

Language Intervention in Early Education For The Handicapped is an unpublished manuscript by David J. Franks, Ph.D.

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Speech clinician facilitating speech and language development in an outdoor play setting.

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