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Video Resources

Kids Talk About Stuttering

Learning Objective: 7.1 Describe the key features of children’s communication disorders.

Description: In this 1-minute video from the Stuttering Foundation, children talk about their experience with stuttering.

Questions to Consider

1. Describe these children’s symptoms.
2. What do these children want people to know about stuttering?
3. How did this short clip challenge your assumptions about stuttering?
    

My World Without Numbers

Learning Objective: 7.2.b Describe how learning disorders/disabilities are identified in school-age children.

Description: In this 11-minute TED Talk, Line Rothman talks about her experience struggling with math.

Questions to Consider

1. What techniques has Line used to get by as she lives with Mathematics Disorder?
2. Why was she so pleased to get this diagnosis?
3. How has her disability become her strength?
    

Response to Intervention: Data-Based Decision-Making

Learning Objective: 7.2.c Give examples of evidence-based treatments for school-age children with reading, writing, or math disabilities.

Description: This 14-minute video from Lehigh University describes how this evidence-based approach is implemented.

Questions to Consider

1. What is the purpose of RTI?
2. What are the four phases of the RTI process?
3. Why are data so important in RTI?
    

Audio Resources

Millions Have Dyslexia, Few Understand It

Learning Objective: 7.2.b Describe how learning disorders/disabilities are identified in school-age children.

Description: This 7-minute story is the first in a four-part series on reading disorder. This segment describes the disorder, highlighting the discrepancy between reading ability and comprehension of language.

Questions to Consider

1. The story tries to describe the personal experience of dyslexia. How would you describe it?
2. Thomas attempts to read in this story. What did you notice when he did that?
3. What are the benefits of a learning disability?
    

What’s Behind the Stark Rise in Children’s Disabilities

Learning Objective:  7.2.b Describe how learning disorders/disabilities are identified in school-age children.

Description This 4-minute story describes a study that found a stark rise in learning and neurodevelopmental difficulties, particularly in affluent families.

Questions to Consider

1. How many children are disabled today?  What types of disorders are increasing or decreasing?
2. Why might diagnosis of these disorders be increasing more in affluent families?
3. Given these differences between more and less affluent families, what recommendations might you have for providers?