SLPs Urged to Take Action in Literacy.(speech-language pathologists)(Brief Article)

Kicking off the recent Schools 2001 conference with an opening session entitled "Literacy: SLPs Come Off the Bench," presenters Barbara Ehren and Joseph Torgesen called all school-based speech-language pathologists to take action in the literacy arena.

Ehren, an SLP who is currently a research associate with the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning, used a basketball analogy to describe the roles that SLPs can take in literacy. "Like basketball players on the bench who have the skills but haven't necessarily been first string, SLPs are very well ...

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