Chapter 6: Learning to Collaborate, Collaborating to Learn
Posted May 9, 2017 by Linda Grimes-Picarazzi, Mary Landry
Two speech-language pathologists describe the language interventions they provide to special education students to support academic achievement. Through collaboration with each other and with classroom and special education teachers, speech-language therapy supports classroom instruction and addresses underpinning
foundational vocabulary, concepts and grammatical structures that are challenging for many middle school students.
Linda Grimes-Picarazzi is a speech language pathologist with the Bethlehem Central School District and a member of the Bethlehem Central Teachers Association. Grimes-Picarazzi has a master’s from Northeastern University in speech language pathology and a C.A.S. in literacy teaching and learning from the University at Albany.
Mary Landry is a certified speech-language pathologist at Bethlehem Central Middle School and a member of the Bethlehem Central TA. She has a master’s in communication disorders.