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Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech – Jacksonville has earned a reputation
for successfully nurturing late bloomers – children with hearing loss who were
identified and/or received cochlear implants late or children who have not
had the intervention necessary to develop age-appropriate listening and talking
skills. Such children often demonstrate limited functional listening or spoken
language skills or use robotic phrases, and may also have splintered skills and
may be remedial learners. Both classroom teachers and therapists should
recognize basic language concepts and core structures, and they should
have techniques for teaching them. By applying these concepts/structures
as building blocks, children can move beyond the development of isolated
snapshots of functional language and become the language experts they must
be to understand and use, comprehend and read higher level language structures
– skills they will need to succeed in inclusive educational settings.
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