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Happy Better Hearing and Speech Month!! Thanks to our wonderful group of SLPs for all that you do to support students with speech impairments across RISD! Please consider taking this opportunity in May to educate others about our profession and the early warning signs of a speech impairment! ASHA provides great resources to assist SLPs in this effort! Please click here to access these resources: https://www.asha.org/bhsm/ Throughout the month of May, please share all of the wonderful things you are doing on your campus to support Better Hearing and Speech Month on the blog and on Twitter! #BHSM

Berkner HS supports Autism Awareness!!  We made some T-shirts to sell as a fundraiser for our DLC students and used the Cafeteria to post fun facts about Autism on puzzle pieces that students taped onto the wall.  #AutismAwareness  #SLPs

I added an activity for making pizza on Google Drive!  It's in the therapy by theme folder and also in the Aug Com May ULS folder.  I'm using it in my DLC classes with the Let's Grow a Pizza Garden story. Five more weeks, y'all! -Kristin

Hi all, I just heard this in a department chair meeting and wanted to make sure you were informed. The department chairs were asked to schedule revision ARDs for the students who did not pass the first administration of STAAR to discuss participation in the second and third round of STAAR prior to the second administration of STAAR. This ARD will lay the groundwork for decision making based on if students pass the second and third round of STAAR. You can discuss participation in the following STAAR rounds and projected decisions based on if students will or will not pass so you can call parents to inform them of next steps without having to have an ARD after the second or third round of STAAR. Every student who does not pass the first round of STAAR will need an accelerated instruction plan whether or not they will be promoted to the next grade level. This includes students who are receiving only speech therapy services who do not pass STAAR. Information about this will als...

Hi all – It is almost May!  We are on the home stretch!  Here is your May AL/CORE Supplement.  The theme is Plants grow.  Many of the supplemental materials for last month still apply – so  if you didn’t use them – check out April’s Supplemental materials as well.  We are still adding some materials so make sure you check back periodically because your colleagues might have added something good.   (Someone added something to April just last week!) The current event this month is Mother’s Day.  If you have questions or concerns – please contact Corinne or I.  Thank you to everyone who took the survey.  We appreciate all your feedback! Folder https://drive.google.com/open?id=11xXecPrwvR168cX_z9EWhPJ2d9fkxzjQ Combined Supplement https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Xoi6OgZnFFf-OQxt7kB76JYixrEZSCMvOdjatMNfwqo Active Learning Words https://drive.google.com/open?id=1y6JLW3Jx8dK2UCnKYYbhzrnIrkS2P4ROTY29cVEH5M0 AT ...

If I have loaned you articulation cards this year (below) and you still have them can you e-mail me? :) Many thanks, Kathleen

If you missed it on ESpEd, our very own Nichole Brezel will be PRESENTING at a social thinking  conference this summer!