Literacy Development in LSL Intervention

Listening & Spoken Language

Introductory

Self-Study

10hr 36min

Continuing Education

10.00 AG Bell CEUs
1.05 ASHA CEUs

Register until Dec. 30, 2026

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Course Overview
Course Outline

Course Overview

The learning experience will provide detailed information regarding the requirements and components needed for independent reading and literacy. Specifically, learners will focus on the connections between vocabulary, oral language, phonological awareness, and story re-telling for children 4-8 years of age. Sessions will emphasize knowledge of evidence-based literacy practices and practical application to include strategies, activities, and parent coaching and guidance.

Course Timeline

30 Days

Primary Audience

LSL Professionals

Key Outcomes

Examine 21st century literacy-related skills, a skill-based reading model, milestones, intervention strategies, activities, and parent guidance practices to promote vocabulary growth in the development of age-appropriate literacy and independent reading.
Describe research findings, milestones, intervention strategies, activities, and parent guidance practices to promote language development (syntax and semantics) in the acquisition of age-appropriate literacy and independent reading.
Examine the research linking phonological awareness and decoding skills, the continuum of complexity, intervention strategies, activities, and parent guidance practices to facilitate the acquisition of skills essential for age-appropriate literacy and independent reading.
Describe research findings, typical development, intervention strategies, activities, and parent guidance practices to promote the development of story retelling and oral narration skills necessary for age-appropriate literacy and independent reading.

Course Outline

Vocabulary
2h 53m
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Learning Content
1h 53m
- Introduction | 6m
- Preparing Children for the 21st Century | 16m
- Vocabulary | 1h 31m
  
  Intro
  
  Typical Development
  
  Vocabulary Instruction
  
  Direct/Indirect
  
  Instruction
  
  Teaching Hierarchy
  
  Which Words?
  
  Using Books in Direct
  
  Instruction
  
  Tired Words
  
  Theme-Based Lessons
  
  Number of Exposures
  
  You Can Always Look It Up or Can You?
  
  Summary
Live Session Recording
1h
Language Structures – Syntax & Semantics
2h 38m
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Learning Content
1h 38m
- Syntax | 50m
  
  Typical Development (Syntax) & Video Analysis
  
  Challenging Language Structures
- Semantics | 48m
  
  Role of Conversations in Raising Readers
  
  Dialogic Reading
  
  Idioms/Figurative Language
Live Session Recording
1h
Phonological Awareness and Decoding
2h 33m
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Learning Content
1h 33m
- Phonological Awareness | 1h 11m
  
  Description
  
  Research
  
  Typical Development
  
  Babbling/Speech Babble
  
  Continuum of Complexity
  
  Rhyme
  
  Word Level
  
  Syllable Level
  
  Phoneme Level
- Decoding | 22m
Live Session Recording
1h
Comprehension
2h 27m
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Learning Content
1h 27m
- Narrative Development | 56m
  
  Research linking story retell and oral narration to literacy and reading comprehension
  
  Story Recall – Sequence of Typical Development
  
  Intervention/Strategies & Techniques/Parent Coaching
  
  Acquisition of Narrative Skills – Typical Development
  
  Intervention/Strategies & Techniques/Parent Coaching
- Background Knowledge | 31m
  
  Research linking background knowledge and verbal reasoning to literacy and reading comprehension
  
  Building background knowledge and verbal reasoning skills
  
  Cumulative Activity
Live Session Recording
1h

Featuring

Kathryn Wilson Linder
MA, CCC-SLP, LSLS Cert. AVT
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Kathryn Wilson Linder M.A., CCC-SLP, LSLS Cert. AVT is a speech-language pathologist, teacher of the deaf and Listening-Spoken Language Specialist, with many years of experience in public school, private practice, home-based, and clinical settings. From 2014 until 2018, Kathryn held the position of Coaching and Mentoring Leader for Hearing First, This followed a position as Director of FIRST YEARS at the UNC-Chapel Hill. Kathryn is a founding member of the American Cochlear Implant Alliance, has been a member of the Coordinating Committee for the American Speech and Hearing Association Special Interest Group, Hearing and Hearing Disorders in Childhood and has served on the Board for The CARE Project. Kathryn has contributed to the professional literature as an author of several articles on a variety of topics. She provides professional learning opportunities both nationally and internationally and mentors professionals pursuing certification in Listening and Spoken Language practice.

Financial Disclosures: Kathryn Wilson Linder receives compensation from Hearing First for the facilitation of this course. She also receives compensation for her work training and mentoring professionals in the LSL approach, and as an occasional presenter at conferences and workshops.

Non-financial Disclosures: Kathryn Wilson Linder holds certification of Listening and Spoken Language Specialist, Certified Auditory-Verbal Therapist. She is a member of the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and the American Speech-Language Hearing Association and Special Interest Group 9 - Pediatric Hearing and Hearing Disorders. She is also a Founding Member of the American Cochlear Implant Alliance.

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