What is it about?
This article describes an expository language intervention to support students entering ninth grade who have difficulty with using and understanding complex language. Sketch and Speak intervention teaches students to take notes and orally practice sentences to improve their comprehension of grade-level expository texts. This is the first study of this intervention delivered in telepractice. The intervention and delivery methods are described.
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Why is it important?
This is important because students who have language-related learning disabilities, or those who have trouble reading, writing, and understanding spoken language, will often need support be successful in the school curriculum. This intervention study provides support for the use of this intervention for speech-language pathologists working with older students in the schools to increase their access to grade-level materials. It also describes how it can be done using telepractice and/or technology in the classroom, which is a different delivery method than has been previously explored for Sketch and Speak.
Perspectives
This study adds to the growing evidence base for the use of Sketch and Speak with adolescents and students in schools. It is also important as it adds to the research of interventions via telepractice.
Amy Peterson
Utah State University
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This page is a summary of: Sketch and Speak Expository Intervention for Adolescents: A Single-Case Experiment via Telepractice, Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, July 2023, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA),
DOI: 10.1044/2023_lshss-22-00192.
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