Sandra Tattershall is director of the Language and Learning
Center in Florence, KY, her private practice for 20 years.
Dr. Tattershall received her undergraduate degree at the University
of KY with a double major in Speech Language Pathology and
Elementary Education. She received her advanced degrees in
Speech Language Pathology at the University of Cincinnati
with a minor in Linguistics.
Her experience has included working in classrooms for students with severe language problems; with students with hearing impairments; with multihandicapped students; with students having difficulty learning written language and with those challenged by higher level language problems. She has taught at the preschool through college levels and has been an adjunct instructor both in Speech Language Pathology and in Education.
She has explored language-learning connections as a special interest for many years. Dr. Tattershall began to explore classroom collaboration in the early 80's and has recently been focusing on collaborating with students directly for improving language and learning. She is currently writing a book about her "shoulder to shoulder" approach in working with adolescents.
As a presenter, Dr. Tattershall draws upon her many professional experiences and her family tradition of storytelling along with conventional references to literature and research.
Description: This program is offered for .3 CEUs or 3 hours of continuing professional development (Introductory Level: Professional area). This course is designed to give clinicians information to help their language disordered adolescent clients connect their intuitive real world processing with classroom learning. Ten Active Learning Principles will be presented.