Workshops
Workshops are offered by both Linda and Debbie. To find out if one of our presentations is coming to your state or to a location near you, please visit the Bureau of Education and Research. At that website you can search by state for seminars.
Linda and Debbie are also available to come to your school. Contact us by phone or email to learn more about workshops that can be designed to suit your district's needs.
Workshops by Linda Eve Seth, SLP, M.Ed.
Workshop #1: Current, Best Strategies to Help SLPs Better Meet Student Needs
This seminar will provide SLPs with a wide array of practical ideas to help them emphasize active listening skills, vocabulary growth, critical thinking skills and speech/language development without relying on worksheets. SLPs will learn implementation strategies to help ensure a high-quality RTI program. The presenter will demonstrate a variety of highly effective lessons, activities and strategies designed to motivate speech students of all ability levels in large and small groups. Learn proven techniques that will help achieve and assess carryover of speech students' targeted goals in articulation, language, fluency and voice.
Participants will learn many classroom-tested activities that are useful in resource rooms, for collaborative teaching, for Tiers 1 and 2 of the RTI model, and for inclusion programs - which will help their students improve in the critical areas of active listening, grammar, critical thinking skills, vocabulary and phonemic awareness. Additional emphases for this seminar include literacy skills development and multi-modal learning.
Workshop #2: Bright Ideas That Really Work for Language Arts Instruction (Gr. 1—9)
With a focus on strategies for language arts instruction, these workshops are suitable for self-contained, content area and resource room teachers, as well as SLPs and teachers of English Language Learners in grades 1-9. Sessions can be tailored to your school district's needs. With more than 35 years of teaching experience Linda knows well which approaches work and which do not.
Short on theory, but long on practical ideas, these fast-paced, interactive sessions will provide teachers with a wealth of innovative strategies, lessons and ideas that will motivate students and turn classrooms into places where learning and teaching are fun! Linda will share a wide variety of practical strategies and lessons that are quick and easy to implement.
Rather than being passive listeners, attendees will become active participants in these sessions. Linda's seminar will provide teachers with dozens of practical strategies to help them emphasize active listening skills, vocabulary growth, and critical thinking skills while addressing language arts content standards across grade levels and without relying on worksheets.
Workshop #3: Listening: The Key to Language & Literacy (Pre K — Gr. 1)
This session is short on theory, but long on practical ideas. The instructor will share practical, proven methods to help develop active listening skills, innovative ways to support emergent literacy skills and numerous creative ideas to stimulate vocabulary development in our youngest students. Participants will leave the session ready to implement a wealth of innovative strategies, lessons and ideas that emphasize the listening skills that will provide a foundation for acquisition of language, phonemic awareness and literacy skills.
Workshops by Debbie Hisam, SLP, M.Ed.
Current, Best Strategies to Help SLPs Better Meet Student Needs
This seminar will give speech-language pathologists many practical, useful, easy-to-implement ideas and lessons that they may begin using immediately with their students. This interactive workshop is fast-paced, lively and fun, and addresses ideas for teaching individual students, small groups, or entire classrooms. Activities address articulation and language goals, and include such topics as vocabulary development, cognitive skills, phonemic awareness, and critical thinking.
