
Thanks to all the SLPeeps who came to our talk, "Using Visual Association Skills to Learn Word Meanings & Deconstructing Verbs to Infer Character Emotions." It's a long title for InferCabulary and WordQuations Methods and the research behind these methods. We promised to post the Power Point presentation and the handouts. Enjoy!
Here's the link to our InferCabulary Worksheet:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/184889033/InferCabulary%C2%A9-worksheet
and to our WordQuations Worksheet:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/184889473/WordQuations-Worksheet
We are on our way back from Chicago and want to share some highlights from our trip. We were at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's (ASHA) Convention in Chicago where we not only were exhibitors displaying our soon-to-be-released apps, but presented the vocabulary methods from these apps.
The response to InferCabulary and WordQuations was overwhelming with close to 400 attendees at our presentation, many of whom shared their enthusiasm for our methods and our apps. We also received great feedback from the SLPs (speech-language pathologists) about how they would like to use our apps in their work settings.
Many who attended our workshop stopped by our table bringing their friends to show them the apps. The vocabulary methods speak for themselves and we look forward to putting them on the APP Store soon.
If you want to see what our apps are about, check out our Indiegogo campaign video at:
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/infercabulary-wordquations/x/5204144
Divya Bhakta is a certified and licensed speech-language pathologist. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders and Master of Science degree in Speech-Language Pathology from Long Island University in 2010. She’s worked in schools, skilled nursing facilities, and now private practice, evaluating and treating children and adults with a wide variety of communication and swallowing disorders. Her special interests include pediatric language disorders.
Betsy Gerding is a nationally board certified speech-language pathologist in the Baltimore. She graduated with her Masters degree from Towson University and has worked in a number of private schools in the Baltimore-Washington area. She specializes in working with students who have language-based learning differences, and is particularly interested in how language impacts reading, writing, and executive functioning skills. In addition, Betsy’s experience includes working with preschool-age children through high school students with needs related to articulation and motor speech, social pragmatics, language of math, and non-verbal learning disability.
Ashley Clayman is a nationally board certified speech-language pathologist in the Columbia, MD area. She graduated with her Masters degree with a Deafness Specialty from Nazareth College of Rochester. She specializes in aural habilitation for cochlear implant and hearing aid users, articulation disorders, phonological disorders, and expressive/receptive language disorders. She has prior experience working in auditory only, Cued Speech, and Total Communication programs. In addition, she has experience working with a variety of articulation disorders and language disorders as a school-based speech pathologist.
Beth Lawrence is CEO and Co-Founder of Communication Apptitude Inc. A certified speech language pathologist, Beth has worked in this field for more than 24 years. She specializes in pediatric speech language therapy. Beth has led workshops in vocabulary instruction, written language, technology and language strategies. Deena Seifert and Beth are co-creators of Infercabulary, WordQuations and the Test of Semantic Reasoning.