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Regina
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December 20, 2024
Dr DUdek gave very clear examples of how to teach runs, verbs and adjectives. In addition she wove that content into the scaffolding necessary for students with Executive Functioning challenges to be successful.
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Melinda
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December 19, 2024
Excellent framework for guiding students to think of what questions they should be asking themselves.
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Member
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December 19, 2024
Good review and information
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Member
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December 16, 2024
Confirms a lot of what I do in therapy. This course helped me put it perspective as to the "why."
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Angela
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December 15, 2024
Presenter is very knowledgeable and is great at giving a structure to the therapy session that is needed for student success at carryover.
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Melanie
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December 13, 2024
The presenter's expertise and ease of presenting the information made the course excellent. The content is very relevant to my practice and interest.
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Barbara
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December 13, 2024
Great presentation with illustrations given about each topic, and how they can help a student understand more about words, and word meanings, and how it helps them with their abilities to increase their knowledge both in school and in social communication skills.
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Member
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December 12, 2024
Provided great examples and ideas for therapy.
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Member
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December 10, 2024
Great course! Loved the examples for applying to therapy.
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Member
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December 9, 2024
Karen's courses have been extremely helpful. She presents so well and makes it so easy to apply to sessions.
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Member
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December 9, 2024
The information is carried out in a context that can be understood quickly and useful for treatment .
by
Member
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December 9, 2024
relating work that I do with patients that have aphasia and applying it to executive function tasks. I never made the connection before.
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Maria
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December 8, 2024
Clear, concise information. Tying in executive function to semantic instruction and how one relies on the other is something I knew but gave little thought to how what that could look like in therapy.
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Jenelle
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December 8, 2024
Great ideas for therapy
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Heather
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December 7, 2024
The content would apply to most students that I work with on a caseload, and would be fairly easy to integrate into practice.
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Martha
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December 6, 2024
Amazing!
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Member
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December 5, 2024
It was a useful extension to Part 1
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Member
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December 4, 2024
I enjoyed very much the shown connection between semantics and EF skills, and concrete examples like semantic feature analysis (which I use often) to target vocabulary skills across all parts of speech (while increasing EF skills). The concept and method for teaching students to ask themselves internal questions was very useful as well.
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Member
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December 4, 2024
Dr. Dudek has some great ideas. Her presentation could benefit from some specific examples and resources either she creates or where she gets her resources from.
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Lauren
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December 3, 2024
Well organized, clear information, and good examples.
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Member
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December 3, 2024
Discussing the importance of supporting meta-cognitive linguistic skills.
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Member
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December 1, 2024
Good information
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Member
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December 1, 2024
The definition syntax as a second part of therapy after semantic feature analysis was an excellent extension of my current practice as well as the semantic feature analysis for verbs and adjectives.
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Claire
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December 1, 2024
The presenter was very clear in her presentation. I loved that she actually used strategies that can be easily transferred into therapy.
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Member
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December 1, 2024
Well organized and explained.
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Member
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November 29, 2024
This is exactly what I needed to hear/learn going back to work after the Thanksgiving break. I have a new student on my caseload that needs so much support with word retrieval, and I will use what I've learned today for sure.
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Karen
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November 28, 2024
The instructor put together the language piece and the executive function piece of therapy.
by
Member
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November 28, 2024
Great information, and is most applicable to my work at home with my son who has ADHD.
by
Member
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November 27, 2024
LOVED THE EXAMPLES
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Alicia
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November 26, 2024
I really like how it highlighted how language is related to executive functioning and how to work on it with explicit teaching.
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Member
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November 26, 2024
This gave me a framework for how to address the language goals for my students as I am new to the schools.
by
Member
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November 26, 2024
good examples of semantic features
by
Member
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November 26, 2024
Great examples that can be used in therapy immediately.
by
Member
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November 26, 2024
It is relevant to my clinical practice. The instructor was clear and thorough.
by
Member
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November 26, 2024
She was good at thinking broadly about therapy ideas while also zoning in on specifics.
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Member
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November 25, 2024
While I have used a similar cueing system to support children’s expression of definitions, this course gave me more confidence in the why and how of using this approach. I feel like I could better explain to families or educators why I was using this with their students.
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Member
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November 25, 2024
great breakdown of real life therapy examples
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Member
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November 23, 2024
This course included great therapeutic frameworks for considering how to target word knowledge. A lot of the information felt fairly abstract until about the 37 minute mark.
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Member
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November 21, 2024
great practical information. easy to incorporate.
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Leah
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November 20, 2024
I love using the EET, and this was a good refresher of the underlying rationales for semantic feature analysis. There were also good suggestions for how to teach the strategies/scaffold the students rather than hope for incidental learning.
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Member
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November 19, 2024
Well organized and well presented.
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Melissa
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November 15, 2024
Even tough this presentation was focused on school-based SLP's, I learned a lot about applying SFA with adult aphasia patients. I work in an out-patient adult clinic and use SFA with most of my patients with aphasia. This course gave me more ideas and specific ways to introduce verbs and adjectives into my SFA treatments. Just today I was trying to explain to a patient the difference between memorizing nouns and use of SFA to recall the noun. Thanks for this dive into SFA and metacognition.
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Member
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November 13, 2024
Vocabulary and its components.
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Mia
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November 11, 2024
I liked the visual tables.
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Member
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November 11, 2024
Information was clearly presented and relevant to my needs as a middle school speech therapist with students at a variety of language levels.
by
Member
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November 11, 2024
Karen's courses always explaining things in a clear, applicable manner.
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Lori
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November 10, 2024
The information was very helpfulnand had information that I can use in therapy right away. It was very helpful in providing useful background and scope and sequence.
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Member
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November 9, 2024
The graphs were helpful for understanding.
by
Member
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November 8, 2024
Clear explanations and easy strategies to implement in my sessions with students.
by
Member
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November 8, 2024
Again, SLPs in the school systems need to have this information.
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Susan
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November 8, 2024
I work with Dyslexic children. This is the technique I use with them. I have seen so much progress with them.
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Member
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November 7, 2024
I was hoping to learn more about this topic, but that did not really happen. This presenter, to me, was very confusing when presenting information; contradicted herself several times; repeated the same information several times; and often did not thoroughly address the topic. I have attended other workshops/presentations in this area that I felt were more beneficial.
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Tori
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November 6, 2024
I loved the information presented in this course and will be using it in therapy asap. It helped me to better understand the why and how of using semantic feature analysis.
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Member
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November 5, 2024
new therapy approaches
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Member
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November 5, 2024
thorough, organized and concise
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Member
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November 5, 2024
Great information in terms of using semantic features to help increase vocabulary knowledge and aid in word retrieval.
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Zina
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November 4, 2024
will be referring back to handouts for future therapy goals and approaches
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Vicky
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November 4, 2024
I like how the speaker explained why and also gave information for the therapist to know how to implement. Loved the examples.
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Erin
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November 1, 2024
good visuals, clear and concise content
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Member
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October 29, 2024
Excellent! Highly recommend!
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Member
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October 29, 2024
Information presented in course has direct impact in how I will formulate my therapy lessons.
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Laura
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October 29, 2024
Breaking down the SFA structure for nouns, verbs, and adjectives was very helpful!
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Member
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October 28, 2024
The information was very relative to my every day therapy. I liked the many examples provided.
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Member
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October 27, 2024
Her analysis and examples were helpful in understanding the approach to word retrieval.
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Dianne
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October 26, 2024
The presenter was very knowledgeable about semantics and word retrieval. I appreciated the organized manner in which the information and techniques were presented.
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John
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October 24, 2024
This is a work in progress. I liked that Ms. Dudek-Brannan offered methods of retrieving syntactic word types aside from just nouns, although the reliance on synonyms is not terribly satisfying. Used semantic feature analysis with geriatric population.
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Nicole
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October 24, 2024
Examples and charts/graphs
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Member
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October 22, 2024
the examples
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Member
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October 22, 2024
Very dense information that was alleviated with examples
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Member
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October 22, 2024
Good overview of skills to target and how to approach treatment. Slides on semantic feature analysis and definition syntax for each word type will be an excellent resource for future therapy.
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Member
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October 21, 2024
great information with excellent explanation.
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Member
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October 20, 2024
The presentation was disjoint and challenging to follow. There were multiple thoughts initiated without completion. Although there were good concepts initiated, these ideas were not fully completed.
by
Member
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October 20, 2024
I work with adults and this was definitely more catered to school populations. I was very bothered by the presenters continued use of unnecessary phrases like, "What you need to do is . . . " "What I'm going to have you think about is . . ." "You can go ahead and . . . " Individuals with disabilities typically learn best with fewer words and more straight-to-the-point communication.
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Rhoda
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October 20, 2024
The detailed slides helped me to understand what she meant along with her verbal explanation.
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Dina
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October 18, 2024
The presentation was informative. The use of strategies to help children learn to self talk to retrieve information was interesting.
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Member
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October 18, 2024
I really like how the presenter was able to tell that sometime we are doing the executive functioning for the student, especially when targeting 'wh' questions but to teach how get the student to think to come to these defining conclusions.
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Pamela
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October 17, 2024
seemed relevant to my broad age range of students
by
Member
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October 17, 2024
I enjoyed how Karen connected the dots between language skills and executive functioning skills.
by
Member
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October 17, 2024
Helpful information
by
Member
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October 17, 2024
Made me rethink my therapeutic process when working with students on vocabulary.
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Jean
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October 15, 2024
The instructor discussed very interesting ways to teach semantics and executive funcitoning.
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Member
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October 14, 2024
This course is a necessary reminder of the importance of working with patients with word finding difficulties and understanding the importance of content vs the function words. It is also helpful to teach word retrieval from a relational perspective.
by
Member
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October 14, 2024
It was very detailed and had good examples.
by
Member
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October 13, 2024
The presentation was organized.
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Stephanie
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October 11, 2024
I really liked the reminder to encourage the self-dialogue and to attend to the amount of questioning the therapist is providing for retrieval.
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Katie
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October 11, 2024
This was an excellent course! What a wonderful presenter, thank you!
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Jennifer
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October 11, 2024
I loved how Dr. Dudek-Brannan described semantic feature analysis.
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Kelsey
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October 11, 2024
Always love to hear from Dr. Karen. She does a great job explaining both the "why" and "how" of various therapy techniques. Will always sign up for her courses when they are available.
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Member
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October 10, 2024
Intervention for vocabulary can feel overwhelming. This course provides knowledge and direction for strategies so that your intervention choices feel more intentional and informed.
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Alison
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October 9, 2024
The depth of knowledge in how to help with vocabulary to map for meaning and metacognitive awareness in the student to help them carry over and apply elsewhere.
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Member
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October 8, 2024
I appreciate the resource slide and how she made herself available at the end for questions to hear further application (alongside examples she provided during her presentation).
by
Member
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October 7, 2024
The instructor provided lots of good information and examples.
by
Member
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October 7, 2024
This course was excellent because it provided a clear and practical understanding of semantic features, helping to break down language into meaningful components like category, function, and associations. By focusing on how these features relate to word classes (nouns, verbs, adjectives), it enhanced comprehension of language processing, making the material relevant for both linguistics and therapeutic applications.
by
Member
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October 6, 2024
Her presentation and outlines.
by
Member
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October 5, 2024
Information was presented in a clear manner.
by
Member
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October 5, 2024
Good review. Liked that she went over verbs
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Member
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October 4, 2024
Similar to the idea of the EET. If already familiar with that, not a lot of new information is presented.
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Anuradha
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September 29, 2024
Clear and concise discussion of the topic, and the suggested activities were very helpful.
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Jamie
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September 27, 2024
Her delivery is fantastic. I could listen to her teach all day. No fluff!
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Member
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September 27, 2024
Detailed information provided.
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