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Here's How Children Learn Speech and Language: A Text on Different Learning Strategies is an effective resource for speech-language pathologists working with children at the level of prekindergarten through high school. The author provides diagnostic tools to help clinicians assess underlying speech and/or language disorders that are impeding students' academic success. Once the underlying diagnoses are obtained, the author assists the clinician with identifying goals and developing strategies to meet those goals and improve academic performance. The strategies allow the SLP to incorporate the content of the child's school lessons, and they can be used across all curriculum areas. By basing the strategies on the student's individual speech and language abilities, the clinician will be best able to assist the student with following written and oral directions, reading fluency and comprehension, critical thinking, and retrieval. Here's How Children Learn Speech and Language: A Text on Different Learning Strategies is an essential resource for school-based SLPs and educators who work with children with speech and language disorders in the educational setting.

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Margo Kinzer Courter is in private practice in Indianapolis, Indiana, specializing in speech and language disorders that affect learning. She provides direct services as well as presentations and consultations. Ms. Kinzer Courter has worked in both pediatric hospitals and private practice settings during her 22 years of practice. She attended Eastern Kentucky University before receiving her BA and MA in speech-language pathology from Butler University in Indianapolis. She completed an MBA at Indiana Wesleyan University. Ms. Kinzer Courter is credentialed in the state of Indiana as an Early Intervention Specialist. She also holds a certificate in case management (CCM) from the Case Management Society of America. Ms. Kinzer Courter is active in the Indiana Speech-Language-Hearing Association. She has served as the Vice President of Professional Development and is currently active on the continuing education committee which she chaired for several years.

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