Episode 43: Shining Lights on Developments for Assessing and Supporting Children using AAC

Episode 44: Shining Lights on Providing Speech-Language Pathology Services in Rural and Remote Areas

Dr Lisa Archibald speaks with Chelsea Van Tol, a speech-language pathologist who works in rural and remote communities, primarily in First Nation schools. In this episode, Chelsea describes her practice, the challenges and rewards, and work with communication health assistants from First Nations communities.

Episode 43: Shining Lights on Developments for Assessing and Supporting Children using AAC

In this episode, Dr Archibald speaks with speech-language pathologists Dominique Lacasse and Megan Von Muhlenen. The two guests discuss the funding model for AAC in Ontario and how their teams of speech-language pathologists and occupational therapists provide services to children and their families who struggle to access them.

Episode 42: Shining Lights on WH Questions

Dr Archibald welcomes Paula Filangeri, a speech-language pathologist from Leamington, ON. Paula introduces us to WH-questions, a practical tool for empowering parents and learners to support language. She delves into her strategies to support vocabulary and grammatical complexity from children in the classroom.

Episode 41: Shining Lights on Assessment Challenges with AAC

Speech-Language Pathologist Lindsay Sharpe from the Louis Riel School Division in Winnipeg, MB returns for a third episode to speak with Dr Archibald on augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). She speaks on the challenges of AAC assessment and explores some of the tools she has tested and uses every day practice as a school speech-language pathologist.

Épisode 7 (Shining Lights episode 40) : Pleins feux sur l’enseignement explicite et structuré de la lecture

Dans cet épisode, Chantal s’entretient avec trois invitées ayant participé à la conception de la ressource pédagogique gratuite « Lire un jour, lire toujours! », une plateforme Web visant à soutenir l’enseignement explicite et structuré de la lecture en français. Les invitées présentent la genèse du projet, ses fondements pédagogiques et son intégration en classe, tout en mettant en lumière les nombreuses ressources offertes (fiches pédagogiques, activités, outils d’évaluation et guides d’intervention). L’épisode aborde également l’apport essentiel de l’orthophoniste dans le développement et l’utilisation de la ressource, notamment pour soutenir les élèves aux besoins variés en littératie.