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July 22, 2022

Speech, Language and Audiology

Speech-language pathologists provide a comprehensive range of services for WSD that includes screening, assessment, diagnosis, intervention, consultation, prevention, and professional development. Specific referrals to speech-language pathologists often include children who are unintelligible, have language learning difficulties, developmental delays, syndromes (i.e. Autism Spectrum Disorder, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorder), social skills weaknesses, fluency, voice problems, or hearing impairments. SLP assessments provide information regarding appropriate intervention and assist families in accessing service that complements school based efforts and programming. 

Educational Audiologists in Winnipeg School Division provide a range of services for students N-12 that include hearing screening, hearing assessment, intervention, consultation, prevention and professional development. Specific referrals to the audiologists often include students that require monitoring of hearing, follow-up from screening or hearing aid adjustments. 

School Social Work

School Social Workers (SSWs) are trained to work from an ecological perspective that examines how systems, environments and people interrelate with each other and the impact of these relationships. The primary goal is to intervene in situations that prevent students from achieving competency and success in school. In schools they are often seen as the link between home, school and community. Assessment is used to determine contributing factors and to develop the intervention strategies determined to be most effective over time.  

School Psychology

School Psychologists work to enhance competencies for all students, and build and maintain capacities of systems to meet the needs of students. Psychologists use problem solving, scientific methodology, data driven research, and best practices to create, evaluate, and apply appropriate empirically validated interventions at both the individual and systems level.  

Clinical Reading

Reading is a clinical discipline that requires its staff be certified teachers, with a minimum of two years classroom experience. Beyond these requirements, Reading Clinicians hold a masters degree in the area of Literacy and Learning, with major emphases upon such areas as foundations of reading instruction, the assessment and diagnosis of reading/learning difficulties, remediation/instructional interventions  and curriculum development in the area of literacy instruction.

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