Language Arts Review. Intervention in Language Arts
Language Arts review (Too hard basket)
One of the most important sections of this book is its description of the importance of oral narratives for both assessment and intervention. Oral narrative provides an important bridge between the contextualized language of home and the more difficult decontextualized language of the classroom. Kathryn DeKemel has identified its importance, and created a very useful narrative assessment tool that can be tailored for your individual students. What I particularly enjoyed about this book was that Kathryn DeKemel uses real life case studies and demonstrates how she actually uses the techniques. The examples she provides eliminates a lot of the guess work for clinicians. This is important. My experience with new therapy techniques is that if they are difficult to plan and implement then they tend to be thrown in the 'too hard basket.' Kathryn DeKemel, with this factor in mind no doubt, provides a range of assessment and therapy tools on a CD ROM that can be used with a small amount of effort. Language Arts review (Criticisms)
One of the chief criticisms of text-based intervention is that it is not as detailed and systematic as more traditional language intervention. Kathryn DeKemel indicates that this is simply not true. She does this by demonstrating that with effective goals and systematic documentation of progress, text-based intervention is ideally suited for clinical practice. The intervention goals contained in the text are based on research, and are considered best practice for school-age language intervention.
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Kathryn DeKemel has written an important book.
