Adolescent Language Processing Learning Principles

This program is offered for .3 CEUs or 3 hours of continuing professional development (Introductory Level: Professional area). Price: $75.00

This course is designed to give information to educators to help their language disordered adolescent clients connect their intuitive real world processing with classroom learning. Adolescents who struggle in school sometimes function much better in their out of school activities where they apply effective language processing and learning strategies.

For instance, when the coach presents a new play in football they remember that play much better than do their academically superior classmates. Even when adolescents appreciate this strength, being able to remember plays in football, they often do not realize that they are doing something that would be helpful in school learning and/or they don't know how to transfer this kind of learning to the classroom. Such youngsters need to become aware of their practical learning strategies, to appreciate that these ways of learning can also be helpful in school and to have explicit guidelines for proceeding as better school learners.

The Author's Ten Active Learning Principles will be presented.

Participants will be able to:

• Identify the 10 Active Learning Principles
• Recall examples to transfer the learning principles to school
• Recall real world examples of the learning principles
• Recognize the educator's role in eliciting the active learning principles

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 has written a book about her "shoulder to shoulder" approach in working with adolescents called Adolescents with Language and Learning Needs: Problem Solving 1st Edition published by Thomson Delmar Learning. 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. Read more

OnlineCEUS.com is approved by the Continuing Education Board of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) to provide continuing education activities in speech-language pathology and audiology. This program is offered for .3 CEUs (Introductory level; Professional area). ASHA CE Provider approval does not imply endorsement of course content, specific products, or clinical procedures.

Other professionals, please contact your state licensing board for information on continuing education requirements. You will be able to print a copy of the CE certificate at the end of each course. It is recommended that you keep a copy of the certificate to show that you completed the necessary requirements.

CEUs are based on attainment of learning outcomes. Participants must complete the course, pass the assessment test with 80% accuracy and fill out the evaluation form in order to receive their certificate on-line.

Participants' satisfaction is assured. The request for a refund and justifiable reason must be stated in writing within 2 weeks of taking the course at which tuition will be fully refunded.