Description:
Blending together elements from Balanced Literacy, Classroom Suite, Map-A-Story, and Sight Words – Developmental Reading Program and adding adapted books and activities will produce unique recipes that will satisfy your students’ appetite for reading. My students’ demonstrated improvement in the following skills: word recognition, comprehension, cooperation, writing, and spelling. They are eager to work and actively engaged longer. Creating Reading Gumbo is possible even if you don’t have the programs listed; you can use what you have. You need to adapt materials and books to each student’s level and style and start cooking. You will be amazed at the results.

Speaker Biography :
Karen Patterson has been teaching special education for 26 years in the moderate to severe disabilities program in Biloxi, Mississippi.  Her elementary students have multiple impairments, severe speech impairments or nonverbal, physical limitations, and many medical issues. Over the last 11 years she has focused on Assistive Technology, communication, and literacy.  She strives to make all of these enhance her students’ everyday lives.  She has been presenting at ATIA Conferences for the last two years, at Rett Syndrome Conferences since 2007, and in her district she has conducted Intellitools trainings over the last 4 years.  She enjoys the feedback and ideas she gets from the audiences during the presentations.  She feels lucky to truly love her job and to be able to share that joy with other dedicated educators and parents.

Learning Outcomes:
As a result of this activity, participants will be able to:

1. Compare their reading programs to the ones presented.

2. Iidentify the common elements in reading programs.

3. Iidentify three adaptations for a specific book or worksheet.

 

 

Additional Information: http://www.atia.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageID=3847

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CEUs
This activity has been reviewed by AAC Institute and is offered for 0.2 CEUs (1.5 hours of instruction).

To register for CEUs, click on the link below to download the Evaluation and Learning Assessment Form, complete the form, and save the file using this file name model:

2010-ATIA-Webinar-August17-Lastname-Firstname.rtf.

Then send the file as an email attachment to ceus@aacinstitute.org. If any difficulty is encountered in using this form, write to ceus@aacinstitute.org to request an alternative file format. In the body of the email, include:

Name
Assistive Technology Role (SLP, OT, family, etc.)
State (if USA), Province (if Canada), or other country

Download Evaluation and Learning Assessment Form now.

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Certificates are sent as .pdf email attachments.