FREE WEBINAR
Within Scope: Practical Tools for Supporting Language and Literacy Together
A free one-hour session with Dr. Jennifer Zuk of Boston University on how oral language underpins reading, and practical ways SLPs can target language and literacy together.
Oral language skills are tightly interwoven with a child's ability to read and comprehend text. After all, reading involves accessing and comprehending language in written form.
Because of that, co-occurring language and reading difficulties are highly prevalent. Children with language disorders are at an elevated risk for reading difficulties, which puts speech-language pathologists in a direct position to help.
In this free one-hour session, Dr. Jennifer Zuk reviews the key components of language that underpin reading comprehension, clarifies the terminology used to describe children with language disorders including developmental language disorder (DLD), and shares practical recommendations for supporting language and literacy together, within an SLP's direct scope of practice.
What we will cover
The key components of language that are crucial for learning to read
Why children with language disorders are at elevated risk for reading difficulties, and how developmental language disorder (DLD) fits in
Practical strategies for targeting language and literacy together in your sessions
ABOUT THIS SESSION
Your speaker
Dr. Jennifer Zuk is an Assistant Professor of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences at Boston University's Sargent College, where she directs the Zuk Lab. Her research uses behavioral and neuroimaging methods to study how early childhood factors, including brain development, language environment and music exposure, shape speech, language and reading outcomes from infancy through school age. She holds a PhD in Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology from Harvard University and an EdM in Mind, Brain, and Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and completed her clinical training at the MGH Institute of Health Professions and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital.
