On The Day it Rained Hearts, the question persisted: Who Will Be My Valentine This Year? Barney the Dinosaur had the answer: Happy Valentine's Day!
And who better to share that answer with us than Sharon Hanvey, our speech therapist. Sharon has a Master’s degree in Speech / Language Pathology, 18 years experience as speech therapist, and 6 years experience at Frankie Lemmon School. Why speech therapy? Some of my friends may have fluency, articulation or voice disorders. Others may have language disorders such as Aphasia or delayed language. They need therapy for a variety of reasons, including: hearing impairments, problems with cognitive-communication (intellectual, thinking), birth defects, autism—the list goes on.
Sharon assesses all these speech / language disorders and comes up with the best ways to treat them. In addition to involving the parents (crucial!) and working with my friends one-on-one or in small groups, she holds a language group therapy session in each classroom every Wednesday. Her hope is that my friends will better understand or process language and be able to better put words together, increase their vocabulary, and learn to use language in a socially appropriate way.
Today was the day—language group day! Follow Barney the Dinosaur as he wishes all of his friends a happy Valentine's Day!
It's all about communicating...
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