THE SPEECH CORNER
TO ALL GREENBROOK FAMILIES:
I am Natalie Glass, the speech specialist for Greenbrook school. I look forward to a wonderful and successful year with your children filled with many accomplishments and great strides! Speech therapy services will begin the week of September 17th.
Please feel free to contact me at any time if you have any specific questions or concerns regarding your child's speech. I will be providing you with new and innovative speech and language strategies to utilize and creative homework ideas for home practice of skills. I am available to offer you any additional resources and/or information throughout the course of the year, in any speech-related areas at your request.
My training and expertise includes, but is not limited to, treatment approaches for apraxia/dyspraxia, oral-motor programs, articulation, behavioral/sensory-based feeding issues, language processing remediation techniques, selective mutism, dysfluency, hearing impairments, and language development.
THE ROLE OF THE SPEECH-LANGUAGE SPECIALIST AT GREENBROOK SCHOOL:
To discover speech and language disorders that are having a significant educational impact on a child's academic performance through diagnostic procedures, as well as to deliver intensive therapeutic services to reinforce skills in the classroom, in the domains of articulation, phonology, oral-motor, voice, fluency, receptive and expressive language, language processing and pragmatic skills.
HOMEWORK:
****To the parents of children who are receiving speech- It is very important that speech homework is completed on a regular basis, signed and sent back into school, to review concepts covered in class and enhance your child's overall progress. If you should have any questions regarding homework, feel free to write me a note in your child's speech book or send me an e-mail. Children working on oral-motor skills who have an oral-motor horn bag should practice their whistles every night twenty five times each. Remind them not to bite on the horns while blowing.