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Kelly Bawden

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5 Evidence Based Tips for Working With Students Who Stutter with Sara Ecker

Are you nervous about doing therapy with a child who stutters? Do you wish you had a few more basics to your stuttering arsenal of therapy ideas? Join Sara Ecker as she gives her top 5 strategies and resources for school age students who stutter. In this podcast, she will discuss the importance of speech sound awareness on the speech machine, how to use a speech hierarchy, how to reduce avoidance behaviors, resources for targeting feelings and attitudes and what the stutter says about the speech machine with a prescription for different kinds of stuttering moments.

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Q & A: Frank Bender on ELL Evaluation

This week on Hello Live, Frank Bender provided a general overview of the special education evaluation process for culturally and linguistically diverse populations. Listen in as Frank joins Kelly Bawden for a Q & A session on how to best serve this population.

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ELL Evaluation 101 with Frank Bender

Grappling with the complexities of evaluating ELL students for SPED services? How do you evaluate a bilingual student when you are a monolingual English-speaking clinician? This podcast will provide a general overview of the special education evaluation process for culturally and linguistically diverse student populations. This process aligns with both federal and state statues and research-based best practice principles. Don’t miss the Q & A discussion following the podcast presentation that provides additional context and insight to many questions. Listen all the way through for instructions on how to document your free CEUs.

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Virtual Fieldtrips with Jenny Peddicord

Looking for a way to expand young horizons? With tablets and streaming video services you can take your kids to wonderful new places in your community and beyond. This week on Hello Live, Jenny Peddicord, M.S., CCC-SLP, introduces the concept of the Virtual Fieldtrip and shares the tools and technology she’s used to make it a success in her work with kids!

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The 3:1 Model with Sharon Soliday

Are you struggling with improving service delivery in the schools? Sharon Soliday and the SLPs of Portland Public Schools were also, and the impact was felt far outside the speech room! This week on the show, Sharon dissects the 3:1 model and offers examples of how supporting students well means supporting classroom teachers well, too. Most importantly, she outlines how this model was put into effect and the successes they had.

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