Language intervention in the classroom: what it looks like

By increasing the relevance of language intervention in this way, SLPs can help students gain a deeper understanding of classroom content and generalize what they learn from one setting to another. [...]SLPs will be able to share with teachers their expertise in language development, language disorders, and language intervention techniques- information that can benefit many students in a typical classroom. At the middle school where I observed, many students with language impairments were also receiving instruction in word decoding, spelling, and other written language skills from the special education teacher several times per week. [...]of open and ongoing communication with the SLP, the special education teacher was able to reinforce the students' use of the newly learned vocabulary words in their written assignments.