Rosalie ‘Rosie’ Martin is a clinical speech pathologist of more than 30 years experience, the past 18 of which have been in her Hobart-based private practice, Speech Pathology Tasmania. She has generalist speech pathology skills as well as special interest and skills in assessment and intervention for people with literacy acquisition disorders, autism and social communication impairments. Rosalie is also now developing a benevolent organisation, Chatter Matters Tasmania, the objects of which are to foster language and literacy development projects within vulnerable populations.
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Session 1: Just Sentences Prison Literacy Program
Learnings will be shared from a project in which a speech pathologist and prison-based literacy coordinator worked together to teach literacy to two severely language-literacy impaired men at Tasmania’s Risdon Prison.
Session 2: Oral language: Why it matters for literacy
This session will present information on what language is, how it develops, and why that information is relevant for supporting literacy skills in adults. Links will also be made to communication skills in the broader sense.
Session 3: Phonemic processing: What is it? How to assess it. How to teach it.
This session will present information about this essential process which underlies decoding skill. If a learner doesn’t have it, it must be explicitly taught. And this is possible to do.
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