My Observation

I went to Shannon Johnson elementary school today for my observation. I observed an SLP and her student teacher, a graduate student at EKU for Speech Pathology. I loved every second of it and I am going back next week. It was really cool seeing concepts we have learned in class done in real life. I observed three groups of 2nd graders and 3rd graders all with a variety of language problems and disorders. Some children had a hard time with the "s" sound or the "e" sound while others had a hard time with the "th" sound/. Some of the children were more severe than others. Some of the children also probably had other disabilities than just a language or speech disorder. I also observed that they used a lot of positive reinforcement and implemented a rewards system which I think is really important not only for behavior management, but for learning. At the beginning of the day I got to sit in on a literacy group which I thought connected very well to our class discussions. I can't wait to observe again next week!