CSD's summer programs boosted skills and stirred up fun
Tuesday, June 28, 2022
A new offering developed by Clinical Assistant Professor Stacy Robinson (above), called the Language and Literacy Club, used fun activities to help children work on their knowledge of sounds, letters, units of word meaning, vocabulary, and grammar. Here, a participant deciphered a recipe for the perfect dirt pudding.
The long-running Listen and Speak Up Preschool returned in Summer 2022 with a new collaboration: students from Iowa's Physical Therapy program led participants in gross motor activities. They joined CSD's speech-language pathology and audiology grad clinicians who working on aural rehab skill-building and fine-tuning CI's or hearing aids.
The Social Climbers' summer fun included a water balloon toss, which serves as a visual representation of conversational turn-taking. The strategy helped kids work on not interrupting and sharing the conversation with peers.
The UISPEAKS summer program for kids who stutter were joined in Summer '22 by participants with hearing loss. The 2-1/2 day program was jam-packed with individual speech therapy, group activities, fun and eating (of course), and an insiders' tour of Kinnick Stadium.
