Northtowns School's Group

Submitted by Christine Buscaglia

2006-2007 Agenda: Northtown School Based Study Group

Loughran's Club and Restaurant (Conference Room)
4543 Main Street -East of Harlem Road  - Snyder, New York 14226  (839-0283)

Our special group of SLP 's are alive and well! We continue to meet at Loughran's Club and Restaurant from 4-6pm.

At each of our gatherings, we have a volunteer facilitator who has organized and pre-planned the format and keeps us on task in our discussions for that day. Come join us!  All are welcome.  Participants should expect to contribute $1 to $2 to offset the food and beverage cost.

September 13, 2006
Colleagues Share: Charting Student Progress.
Various ways to chart student progress- especially in group therapy.

October 4, 2006
Colleagues Share: Best practices for teaching Concepts of Time
(The calendar, yesterday/today/tomorrow, holidays etc.)

November 1, 2006
Discussion and practice of Successful Memory Strategies.
Follow-up from the Shawny Workshop on September 30, 2006.

December 6, 2006
Apraxia- Part I :Diagnosis
Offsite: Ledgeview Elementary in Clarence. Overview of materials.
Facilitators: Jody Caprow, Susan Perlow & Shelly Gerovac

January 3, 2007
Apraxia-Part II-Therapy Techniques

February 7, 2007
Colleagues Share: Communication Needs of Students with Down’s Syndrome.

March 7, 2007
Guest Presenter: Gretchen Swartzenberg, SLP
The Nonverbal Learning Disability Program at UB

April 4, 2007
Part I-New and Favorite Intervention Techniques
Vocabulary; Language Processing; Expressive language

May 2, 2007
Identification of Current Needs for the 2007-2008
School-Based Speech/Language Pathologists, Inc.
Facilitator: Chris Buscaglia

June 6, 2007
Part II-New and Favorite Intervention Techniques
Oral Motor; Speech Production; Phonological Awareness

Questions/suggestions: call Christine B. @ 688 -2861 or chrisssb@adelphia.net

Last Year's Agenda