From your Lynwood Speech/Language Pathologists:

Mrs. Stallone, Mrs. Casey and Mrs. Maloupis

Dear Lynwood Parents/Guardians:

In case of an emergency or extended school closing, we are posting speech/language therapy materials to provide you with suggestions for helping to maintain your child's progress with his/her overall communication skills when school is not in session. Please use your child's speech notebook to review language-based and speech sound target pictures and activities. Reviewing your child's speech book is one of the most important activities that you can do when your child is not in school.

March 2020

Dear Parents,

We have exciting news!! There is a free 30-day trial (March 2020) of Hearbuilder Software that you can use with your children. This program is useful for all K-5 students.

Go online www.superduperinc.com

· Create an account

· Download program

The program keeps track of where you left off from previous games. Works on each level until at least 80% correct score. Listen to strategies (ways) to improve performance on each area.

We encourage you to download and use this free program for the next 30 days. Just a few key areas (directly from the website):

HearBuilder is a program that works on the following critical language skills:

1. HearBuilder Following Directions (with Basic Concepts)

From the first day of school, students must be able to follow directions in order to focus on their classroom activities, interact well with other children, and conduct themselves appropriately. With HearBuilder Following Directions, they:

• Develop essential listening skills as they learn 40 basic concepts.

• Learn to follow five different types of directions: Basic, Sequential, Quantitative/Spatial, Temporal, and Conditional.

2. HearBuilder Phonological Awareness (Speech Sound Awareness for Reading)

Before children can learn to read, they must be aware of the sounds that letters make in words, syllables, and sentences — or, in other words, they must have good phonological (sound) awareness skills. With HearBuilder Phonological Awareness, students:

• Practice nine activities to help them hear the sounds in words, syllables, and sentences.

• Move from basic activities (Sentence Segmentation, Syllable Blending, Syllable Segmentation) to more difficult ones (Rhyming, Phoneme Blending, Phoneme Segmentation/Identification) to the hardest tasks (Phoneme Deletion, Phoneme Addition, and Phoneme Manipulation).

3. HearBuilder Auditory Memory (Strategic Memory Training for Listening)

Next, children must be able to remember and recall information they have learned. With HearBuilder Auditory Memory, they:

• Practice memory strategies as they recall numbers, words, specific details, and multiple sentences.

• Learn memory strategies for answering WH questions.

4. HearBuilder Sequencing (2- to 6-Step Sequences)

Finally, students use all the information they learned in the first three HearBuilder programs to work on essential language and literary skills. With HearBuilder Sequencing, students will:

• Practice skills such as reading left to right, understanding important details, predicting, and identifying important parts of stories.

• Put 120 illustrated scenes in order, starting out with simple 2-step sequences and gradually progressing to
  6-steps.