We want our graduates to celebrate differences, not see them as disorders.” “We want to send professionals out into the world who can work with children with many cultural and language backgrounds. Those opportunities are important, she said. But there were not many opportunities for them to engage with diverse populations.” They can get those at a clinic on campus, and off-site. “They need 400 clinical hours for their degrees. “I teach school-age language and literacy to speech-language pathology graduate students,” she said.
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She was thinking about how to engage her MSU students in this arena. “Children who read well have larger vocabularies, and children with larger vocabularies perform better on standardized tests.” “I have always been interested in increasing literacy among the African-American population,” she said. Shurita Thomas-Tate, founder of Ujima Language and Literacy. Thomas-Tate came to Springfield in 2011 as an assistant professor who specialized in school-age language and literacy, as well as cultural and linguistic diversity. “It began as an effort to provide my MSU graduate students an opportunity to gain practical experiences, working with students from diverse backgrounds,” she said. Ujima Language and Literacy seeks to increase skills in children ages birth to 11. Ujima is a Swahili word that means “collective work and responsibility.” It’s one of the principals of the Kwanzaa holiday.
Shurita Thomas-Tate, MSU associate professor of communication sciences and disorders. Ujima Language and Literacy was conceived in 2014 by Dr. Growing from a poorly attended literacy fair to part of a community It’s the feeling the MSU instructors, alumni and students behind Ujima Language and Literacy want to instill in children. That’s the feeling of empowered literacy. You can easily interact with language as you move through the world. Now, you just read and write without thinking about it. You probably don’t remember learning all of this.
You learned grammar and how to understand stories. That’s the ability to understand what letters mean when they make words, and what words mean when they make sentences. You repeated the sounds each letter makes. You learned the alphabet, and probably drew cute little letters (maybe with some parts backwards).
If you’re able to read this, that means someone taught you the basics of language and literacy.
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