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05/03/2025

May is Speech and Hearing Month! 🗣️🦻💗

03/01/2025

Amazing strategies to support our kids’!

Unlock the secret to empowering kids with thoughtful language. Learn how small shifts in communication can build confidence, foster independence, and strengthen relationships.

10/18/2024

https://dldandme.org

Welcome to DLD and Me! Spreading the word about Developmental Language Disorder Latest Articles What is Developmental Language Disorder? DLD is a brain difference that makes talking and listening difficult. DLD affects about 2

10/18/2024

02/07/2024

Great podcast!

New podcast alert! I am admittedly a reading science nerd, and I also love podcast hosting…so I’ve brought those two things together for the new Reading Road Trip podcast from IDA Ontario! Every episode of this show (which is for educators, but may also be of interest to parents and those workin...

01/06/2024

Definitions all teachers should know to inform their literacy programming in relationship to the new Language curriculum.

09/14/2023

Learn how the human brain learns how to read! 📚🧠

When we read, our brains transform the shapes of letters and characters on a page into the sounds of spoken language. But how does the brain do this? That’s ...

09/14/2023

Thursday’s words of wisdom are taken from:
“Teaching Children to Read: What Do We Know About How To Do It?” (2005)
- Snow, Hulme, Snow & Juell
This paper was written in 2005 and yet we’re still having the same debate about the best way to teach children how to read.
We have the knowledge and the science, isn’t time we implemented it?


The author in this paper is Catherine Snow not Professor Pam Snow, just to avoid any confusion 😊

07/08/2023

12/13/2022

https://edsource.org/2022/a-movement-rises-to-change-the-teaching-of-reading/675989

Scientists, teachers, and parents battle over the best way to teach reading amid a literacy crisis.