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Experiments in AI: Improving Conversational Language for Students with Social Language Challenges

Exploring AI’s role in improving conversational skills for children and the need for effective interventions — Working with children with social skills challenges requires a different set of skills than a typical classroom teacher or speech-language therapist would have. It’s not to say that the general therapist or teacher can’t do these things, it just requires a change in perspective. This may be a trite example…

Teachers

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Experiments in AI: Improving Conversational Language for Students with Social Language Challenges
Experiments in AI: Improving Conversational Language for Students with Social Language Challenges
Teachers

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Need to Improve Inferencing in Your Students? Try This Visual and Interactive App for Improving Inferencing Skills

Explore tools like Inference Pics for teaching and practicing these skills with visuals and cues, benefiting learners of all ages — For children and adults, inferencing skills are needed everywhere. Whether it is interpreting the facial expression of a friend or partner, figuring out the motives behind a co-worker’s action, or interpreting your own reasons for doing something, we are constantly using inferencing in our daily lives.

Education Technology

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Need to Improve Inferencing in Your Students?
Need to Improve Inferencing in Your Students?
Education Technology

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ILLUMINATION

·Nov 15

…And Then What?

Considerations about problem solving in education for students with learning challenges — I love problems. I should probably restate that- I like solving problems. While this skill set benefits me in some cases, like helping students in my school, it can also backfire. I’ve been told that I don’t need to solve every problem that arises, but that’s a story for another…

Education

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…And Then What?
…And Then What?
Education

10 min read


Nov 8

Effective Strategies to Help People Who Stutter

Using Voluntary Stuttering to Make a Difference — “I bet you can’t stutter better than me!” It’s hard to imagine what it would be like to have your communication skills halted. I don’t want to, but I can imagine a physical injury that prevented me from moving the way that I do, but imagining the fluent flow of…

Students

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Effective Strategies to Help People Who Stutter
Effective Strategies to Help People Who Stutter
Students

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EduCreate

·Oct 28

Experiments in AI: Creating Targeted Listening Comprehension

Exploring AI’s role in creating accessible, engaging listening comprehension passages for students, emphasizing the need for teacher intervention. — There are tons of commercially available materials in the market for teachers and special educators. Some of these materials meet your needs while others can be…let’s just say that they are not an effective use of school or personal resources. The field of speech and language therapy is no different…

Teachers

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Experiments in AI: Creating Targeted Listening Comprehension
Experiments in AI: Creating Targeted Listening Comprehension
Teachers

5 min read


Oct 27

Beyond Mindfulness and Gratitude: A Lesson in Patience for Educators

The giggles get louder and louder. I know that I am supposed to enjoy that sound. My kids are playing; they’re laughing; they’re doing what they are supposed to be doing. Laughing, playing, having fun, and being children. Yet, here I am, not seeing the moment for what it is. …

Teacher Stories

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Beyond Mindfulness and Gratitude: A Lesson in Patience for Educators
Beyond Mindfulness and Gratitude: A Lesson in Patience for Educators
Teacher Stories

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Oct 26

The Educator’s Paradox: Too Much Time? Or Not Enough?

Education is unique in that the years have distinct borders to them. You start in late summer/early fall and end in late spring/early summer of the next year. 10 months, give or take. 40 weeks, pretty much. Can you think of another job that has such clear time parameters? Friends…

Teacher Training

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The Educator’s Paradox: Too Much Time? Or Not Enough?
The Educator’s Paradox: Too Much Time? Or Not Enough?
Teacher Training

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Oct 25

A Parent’s Perspective (II)

“Tell me what to do…” We had spent the last 90 minutes in this room together. We had talked and we had listened. We had experienced special education advocates talk about their ideals. We had explained. We had talked about reading levels and grade levels. We had talked about attention…

Parents

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A Parent’s Perspective (II)
A Parent’s Perspective (II)
Parents

4 min read


Oct 11

Riding the Waves of Educational Technology

As I watched the iPad fly through the air, there was an initial shock. After all, it’s almost $500 of glass, aluminum, and silicone wrapped in rubber and plastic. The rubber and plastic did it’s job: there were no pieces to pick up. …

Teacher Training

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Riding the Waves of Educational Technology
Riding the Waves of Educational Technology
Teacher Training

2 min read


Oct 5

Acceptance is Freedom: How to Live Your Own Life Without Imposing on Others

You work in a profession with people. There’s people your age, people older than you, lots of people younger than you, and people who care for the young people who are really invested in what you do with the young people. Yeah, I know, I could have said colleagues, staff…

Teachers

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Acceptance is Freedom: How to Live Your Own Life Without Imposing on Others
Acceptance is Freedom: How to Live Your Own Life Without Imposing on Others
Teachers

2 min read

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Dan Fitch

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Helping kids communicate is my day job. Wading through my thoughts to get them out here.

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