The Speech Therapist’s Role in Reading and Writing in Children and Adolescents
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What is literacy and which skills does it include for children and adolescents?
Hey everybody, this is Carrie Clark, and you are listening to episode number 62 of the Speech and Language Kids Podcast. This is the podcast with resources and activities for speech therapists as well as for parents of children with speech and language delays. I'm Carrie Clark from Speechandlanguage Kids.com and I am your host for this podcast. Today we are talking about the speech therapist's role in reading and writing, also known as literacy, in children and adolescents. So we're gonna be talking about Um, how speech therapists can help children with literacy problems and what exactly are our roles as speech language pathologists, speech therapists, however you wanna call us, um, in terms of literacy and what happens, uh
in the schools or in speech therapy for literacy. So that's what we're talking about today. Before we jump into the content though, I do want to remind you of my membership site, the Speech Therapy Solution, if you have not heard of that yet. The Speech Therapy Solution is a membership site just for speech therapists. In this membership site, you can get answers to your speech therapy questions. So each weekday I answer a question about. Uh speech therapy from a member and I create a short training video about that. You also have access to the entire training video library, which is like uh close to three hundred videos at this point. It's a ton. Plus there are there is a monthly webinar for members where you can get in-depth information on a certain topic.
It's about an hour long each month. You can get continuing in for that, and you also get discounts on my ebooks. So all kinds of good stuff there. Head on over to speechandlanguage kids.com slash T S T S, and that will get you information about the speech therapy solution and show you where you can sign up. So there's that. But let's go ahead and jump on into our topic today, which is literacy. So What is literacy? What's included in literacy when we say that term? Well, we're talking about primarily reading and writing skills, but also pre-reading skills like phonological awareness and basic language skills. So phonological awareness is things like uh rhyming and alliteration and segmentation where you
can break words into uh syllables and into their individual sounds. Being able to sound out a word is a phonological awareness skill. So pre-reading skills, uh just basic language skills, there's a lot of language that needs to be learned before a child is ready to start reading.
Why do children with speech or language delays often struggle with reading and writing?
So that's all included in literacy as well, but primarily we're talking about reading skills and writing skills. When we talk about reading, we look at things like uh decoding or being able to sound out words and figure out what a word me what a word says. We talk about reading comprehension, which is being able to understand what has been read. When we talk about reading fluency, which is being able to read something out loud fluently. So being able to read it smoothly and with correct intonation. So all that's reading. In terms of writing, there's all kinds of different writing we do. We talk in the schools about writing narratives, which would be like writing a story, or writing uh doing persuasive writing.
Which would be like writing an opinion piece. We also talk about informational writing, so writing to portray information. um, kind of a non fiction kind of writing. So there's all kinds of of skills that fall under literacy. Now let's talk about why our kiddos with speech and language delays really need some good good focus on this area. So it obviously kiddos with language delays are gonna have some stru struggles when it comes to reading. They are missing a grasp of how to use their language in a variety of different language tasks. So that I mean that connection is pretty obvious. If you have a kiddo who doesn't know how to use grammar, then he's gonna have trouble writing grammar and he's going to struggle when it comes to reading grammar.
So that one is is a pretty easy connection. The connection that is sometimes uh not known about or forgotten is that children who have speech problems, even if they are repaired, so even if they had therapy early in life and they fixed them before they even started reading,
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is literacy and which skills does it include for children and adolescents?
0:00–2:47
2
Why do children with speech or language delays often struggle with reading and writing?
2:47–7:26
3
How does ASHA define the speech‑language pathologist’s role in literacy?
7:26–13:27
4
What are the prevention strategies SLPs can use to reduce future reading problems?
13:27–18:17
5
How can SLPs identify and screen at‑risk children for literacy difficulties?
18:17–21:30