Creating Opportunities For Teens & Adults With Special Needs & Disabilities

Often learners with disabilities are not provided ample opportunities for emergent literacy skills to solidify. This episode presents 4 questions to identify if our learner needs more time with emergent literacy strategies and several practical applications to build emergent reading skills. About the Guest Sofia Benson-Goldberg PhD, CC-SLP works as a research assistant at the Center for Literacy and Disability Studies. Prior to starting her PhD studies, Sofia had her dream clinical job working, with children, teenagers, and young adults with severe physical and cognitive disabilities with complex communication needs at a small private practice in Northern Colorado. Since joining the CLDS, Sofia has been a research assistant on Project Core and Tarheel Shared Reader among other projects. She looks forward to continuing her academic career with a post-doctoral fellowship at the CLDS on Project Open. Links to Mentioned Content: Comprehensive Literacy for All by Karen Erickson and David Koppenhaver Shared Re