Young Children's Negative Attitudes toward Peers with Communication Disorders: What SLPs Can Do to Help
Course: #8764Level: Introductory 1 Hour 3466 Reviews
At a young age, children with communication disorders are at high risk for social punishment from their communicatively typical peers. This course provides an overview of the emergence of bias in young children, explains the impact of negative attitudes on children with communication disorders, and offers recommendations on how to productively address negative peer attitudes.
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Course Type: Video
CEUs/Hours Offered: AG Bell - LSLS/1.0 Domain 4; ASHA/0.1 Introductory, Professional; Calif SLPAB/1.0; IACET/0.1; IBCCES/1.0; Kansas LTS-S1370/1.0; SAC/1.0
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Learning Outcomes
- After this course, participants will be able to describe the social-cognitive constructs related to the emergence of bias in young children.
- After this course, participants will be able to explain the ramifications of negative peer attitudes toward children with communication disorders.
- After this course, participants will be able to describe instructional approaches to improve young children's negative attitudes toward peers with communication disorders.
Course created on February 28, 2019
Agenda
| 0-5 Minutes | Introduction |
| 5-10 Minutes | Definition of terminology (e.g., bias, prejudice, etc.) |
| 10-15 Minutes | Social-cognitive constructs related to the emergence of bias in children |
| 15-25 Minutes | Young children's negative attitudes toward peers with communication disorders |
| 25-35 Minutes | Ramifications of negative peer attitudes toward children with communication disorders |
| 35-45 Minutes | Pillars of attitude change for young children |
| 45-55 Minutes | Improving communicatively typical peers' negative communication attitudes |
| 55-60 Minutes | Summary, Q&A |
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3466 ReviewsPresented By
Mary Weidner
PhD CCC-SLP
Mary Weidner is an Assistant Professor at Marshall University. Her research focuses on measuring and improving children's attitudes toward peers with communication disorders. She developed the Attitude Change and Tolerance program (InterACT), an educational program that teaches children about human differences and how to interact with others who are different.
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