This session is part of the Kansas Infinitec Virtual Practitioners' Technology Summit on February 25, 2022.
The ability to write has enormous power for all students, especially those with complex learning needs. The good news is that decades of research across the world has given us a preponderance of evidence to inform how reading and writing development. Given that the pandemic has resulted in significant reductions in instruction and student backslide, using science to increase instructional efficacy and efficiency, and optimize student outcome, is essential. This session will also show how the not-so-simple view of writing can help practitioners assess the knowledge, skills, and curriculum materials needed to improve evidence-based practice in written language. Learn how all students, especially those with complex learning needs, can become authors when systematic, sequential, and explicit instruction is anchored in the science of writing.
About Presenter:
Janet Sturm, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, BCS-CL, is a professor in the Department of Communication Disorders at Central Michigan University. She has been working in classrooms for over 30 years. Her research and development work focuses on writing instruction for students with disabilities, computer-supported literacy, measurement of beginning writers, and classroom communication. She is a Fellow of ASHA and a Board Certified Specialist in Child Language. Dr. Sturm is the initial author for the First Author Writing Curriculum, a comprehensive writing curriculum that guides educators to teach beginning writing skills to students with special needs including autism.
Check out Dr. Sturm's 1 minute YouTube Video Advice on Writing Instruction for Students with Significant Disabilities for the New Writing Teacher.
As a result of this session, participants will be able to:
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