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A passionate clinician, executive director, and entrepreneur with keen strategic and intellectual ability evidenced in professional accomplishments, clinical staff mentoring, and advising and teaching students, professionals, and parents across the country. Landria has the opportunity every day to work and live in her purpose by working and training people with special needs and their families. Landria is described as a dynamic, informative, energetic, and captivating speaker. She is a certified and licensed speech-language pathologist with specialties in autism, assistive technology, behavior, and communication. As the granddaughter of a woman who’s communication abilities were cut short by a massive stroke, she understands first hand the impact of impairment on the family. Landria is currently the owner and Executive Director of SLC Therapy, a private therapy firm located in Connecticut and Michigan focused on Empowering Families and Expanding Independence. Through her leadership at SLC Therapy, Landria has created dynamic and innovative programs for families that include Flourish!, a center based educational program for learners with autism, and the use of videoconferencing (Teletherapy) technology to provide families access to therapy service. In addition, Landria is focused on empowerment through partnerships with organizations to enhance community services. Landria is the creator of The Empowered Parent, a parent e-magazine focused on support for families of people with special needs. Landria was recently selected as a professional expert on a documentary focused on Autism in the African-American Community. Landria is the author of the social curriculum Keep the Conversation Going, which focuses on social cognition, conversation fluency, and social skills. Education B.S. Speech and Hearing Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign M.A. Speech Language Pathology Northwestern University Certified Speech Language Pathologist American Speech Language Hearing Association DIR Level 1 Practitioner Certification: Compton P-ESL Certificate: ADOS Training, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor PROMPT-Introduction Verbal Behavior, Dr. Vincent Carbone Achievements 40 Under 40 Business Professionals in Fairfield County 2009 Someone You Should Know Award, Bridgeport Black Pride 2007 People’s Bank Community Award 2006
Blog » Why Therapists Should Stop Teaching "More"
I recently went to a LAMP training given by PRC and cringed when the first sequence for communication training instructed the use of "more". Sadly it's more common than not. I interviewed and SLP and during her demo session with the child with Autism, she decided he needed to say the word "more". And early in my career, I too thought teaching "More" was important for first words...but its not. Here's why:
In natural conversation between typical brain learners, words and vocabulary are shared. Labels are produced.
Typical people use words! The interesting thing is that in ABA teaching sessions, in language teaching sessions...children with special needs are learning words. The are learning to label and receptively identify nouns, actions, location, etc.
The SAD TRUTH is that therapists are not often thoughtful in the programming to create a true bridge between the words taught and communication.
How do I know this? Well I meet parents daily who want their children to communicate with them. When I ask for the word lists and what words have been taught in the program...there are categories upon categories of word lists! But no true communication.
Here is the TRUTH: If communication were taught in conjunction in building word lists...the parents and families would be able to talk to each other. This is generalization...from the beginning. When you teach more...you don't teach independence but increased dependence resulting in a cyclic breakdown in communication.
So as I sat and cringed at the LAMP training and the sequence of language teaching for "more"...I created a new curriculum for labels that moves along the ABA-VB sequence for mands, tacts, intraverbals.
That's what any behaviorally based speech-language pathologist would do :-)
Enjoy and Be Empowered.
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