Identify Developmental Language Disorder in your classroom, with Tiffany Hogan, Ph.D.
Meet Our Guest(s):
Tiffany P. Hogan, Ph.D.
Tiffany P. Hogan, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is a professor at MGH Institute of Health Professions in Boston and director of the Speech and Language (SAiL) Literacy Lab, and a research associate at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Hogan has published over 100 papers on the genetic, neurologic, and behavioral links between oral and written language development. Her focus is on improving assessment and intervention in schools, especially for neurodiverse children with Developmental Language Disorder, dyslexia, and/or Speech Sound Disorders. Her advocacy for children with language, speech, and literacy differences led her to co-found a DLD informational website, DLD and Me, and host a podcast, SeeHearSpeak.
Meet our host, Susan Lambert
Susan Lambert is the Chief Academic Officer of Elementary Humanities at Amplify, and the host of Science of Reading: The Podcast. Throughout her career, she has focused on creating high-quality learning environments using evidence-based practices. Lambert is a mom of four, a grandma of four, a world traveler, and a collector of stories.
As the host of Science of Reading: The Podcast, Lambert explores the increasing body of scientific research around how reading is best taught. As a former classroom teacher, administrator, and curriculum developer, Lambert is dedicated to turning theory into best practices that educators can put right to use in the classroom, and to showcasing national models of reading instruction excellence.
Transcripts and additional resources:
Quotes
“Neurodiversity means that we have lots of different ways to think, and we each come to the table with different brain structures.”
“Oral language difficulties are a crystal ball into reading comprehension.”
“You, as an educator, can be the one that really makes a difference for that child. It only takes one person to make a huge difference in the life of a child.”
“When I'm thinking out something complex, I'll want to write it out, so that I can see where the holes are in my thinking. It's really this reciprocal relationship between the concepts or the knowledge we have and the language we have to convey that knowledge.”
“As our conceptual knowledge builds, our language ability will build. So there's really a bidirectionality that occurs between background knowledge and language.”