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Getting ready for Neiva, Colombia and Quito, Ecuador

by Cate | May 13, 2015 | 1 comment

Construct Validity of the PLS-5

by Cate | Dec 1, 2013

Alexandra and Elana created this poster based on work they did in the Assessment and Evaluation course at Teachers College Columbia University and presented it at ASHA’s convention in Chicago in November 2013.

ASHA 2013 Biases in the PLS-5

by Cate | Nov 25, 2013

With several recent graduates of the Teachers College Columbia University speech-language pathology program, we put together a poster analyzing the biases in the PLS-5. We looked at how much were based on prior knowledge including vocabulary/labeling, exposure to...

Colombia 2013 Cleft speech and feeding course Healing the Children

by Cate | Jun 30, 2013 | 0 comments

We were invited to bring the speech component to the 20th anniversay of the Healing the Children surgical mission in Neiva, Colombia. With our colleagues, Dr. David Hoffman (medical director) and Dr. Sidney Eisig and a team of 70 surgeons, orthodontists,...

Cleft palate at Komfo Anoyke Hospital in Kumasi, Ghana

by Cate | May 23, 2013

After a brief, but thorough cleft palate lesson last night, we dove in head first and spent the morning at the weekly cleft palate clinic at Komfo Anokye hospital in Kumasi run by Dr. Peter Donkor. Patients travel from all over Ghana to come and see Dr. Donkor for...

Visit To Strivright Auditory Oral School of New York

by Cate | Apr 22, 2013

I recently visited the Strivright Auditory Oral School of New York. The school was founded by Pnina Bravmann, CCC-SLP/A. Pnina Bravmann is an inspired and inspiring director and visionary for the auditory oral approach. What you hear in this school are the voices of...

Lynda Campbell Memorial Lecture at St. Louis University in Missouri

by Cate | Apr 22, 2013

I was honored to speak at the 2013 Lynda Campbell Memorial Lecture at St. Louis, MO. My talk was “International Service that Really Serves.” It was the first time that I had done a full day on my international work. I used the videos from Ghana, Bolivia,...

Ghana 2013: Professional Development Retreat

by Cate | Mar 22, 2013

We had an incredible three-day professional development retreat in Ghana when we were there in January 2013. There were 50 special education unit school teachers of students with intellectual disabilities, 10 general education teachers, 8 dignitaries from the Division...

2013 Lynda R. Campbell Lecture: International Service that Really Serves: Experiences in Latin American and Africa

by Cate | Mar 10, 2013 | 0 comments

The lecture series, “Topics in Diversity,” is a tribute to Lynda R. Campbell, Ph.D., who passed away in 2001. Dr. Campbell was an associate professor and the past chair of the department of communication sciences and disorders at Saint Louis University....

Continued Biases in Identifying “Gifted and Talented”

by Cate | Mar 3, 2013 | 0 comments

The New York Times just released an article titled, “Schools Ask: Gifted or Just Well Prepared?” The article goes in depth about the processes used to assess young children to see if they should be placed into gifted and talented programs, and questions...