Joy In The Classroom

Allyson’s high school activities include varsity cheerleading on the football, basketball, and competition squad. Playing clarinet in the band for the past five years, she is very active in local honors bands including All County, Solo and Ensemble, OMEA District 3 band and All-Ohio State Fair band. Allyson participates in high school choir, and is a part of mixed ensemble. She is a two-year member of Arcadia track and field team. Furthermore, is a member of the National Honor Society, and now a lifetime member of the National Society of High School Scholars. Her community activities include volunteering at The Old Time

Olivia has always seemed to be ahead in her language abilities, such as in vocabulary and in advanced thinking skills of creating sentences and understandings of what someone is asking. At three years old, Olivia scored above average in her skills of language comprehension and production. She could tell a detailed story about a picture, in which we thought we could continue to help her develop by reading aloud at home, talking about

Brea Heneveld is a freshman at Grace Bible College studying elementary education with a focus in mathematics and reading. She grew up in the small farming town of Hamilton, Michigan. Before heading to Grace, Brea attended Hamilton High School where she graduated the top 25 out of 200 students. While in high school she played basketball her freshman and sophomore year, was in choir all four years, eventually making into Hamilton’s top choir her junior year, and performed in two productions her senior year. She currently is employed at Cracker Barrel in Grandville and also The Good Earth Café in Holland. Music is a big part of her life and has been singing in front of groups ever since she can remember. She surrounded herself with friends who

The following information was derived from a review of Morgan’s academic record. Morgan attended Academy Nursery School in September of 2005. In October of 2005 Morgan was referred for a multidisciplinary evaluation due to concern regarding her speech and language development. As a result, she was administered the Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation-2 and the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-Preschool-2 (CELF-P2). Results from the evaluation revealed her speech intelligibility was rated in the poor range and she demonstrated low language skills.

Lynn now at age 5 still could not talk as they expected. From the ages of 3 to 5, Lynn had now been enrolled in an oral school. Lynn loved attending although after a while she began to have problems.

Sam is an adopted child. Quite early on his adoptive parents had concerns about his speech and language. They noticed he uses very few single words and is very reluctant to communicate with anyone. Initially they thought he is feeling shy or taking time to adjust to new environment but Sam started having more tantrums. They were worried about his communication and ability to cope at nursery school. He was referred to the Speech and Language Therapy Service when he was two years old.

Language is beautiful and wondrous phenomenon. Not only is it a crucial component in everyday communication, but it also accentuates the culture of those that speak it. As a student pursuing a career in speech-language pathology, the aspects of communication, such as language, are the pillars of my future profession and will be deeply embedded into my daily life. There are many reasons I have chosen this path, but my childhood friend, Jasmine, can be accredited with my finishing decision to become a speech-language pathologist. When I was in elementary school, Jasmine was one of my closest friends, but I did not always get to play with her at recess because she frequently had to see an audiologist, or go to speech therapy. Jasmine had a congenital

When the class sang songs about happiness and games her lips barely moved.” Margot ignored the other children, the only time she participated was when an activity mentioned the sun. Margot keeps herself apart from the rest of the class while she talks about experiences with the sun, when that is what the kids want the most. Although Margot’s classmates hurt her because of their jealousy, Margot was also partly to blame for since she keeps mentioning something that her classmates has always wanted.

Based on the current evaluation results, Abigail exhibits average skills in the areas of expressive and receptive language and vocabulary. Her articulation skills are commensurate to her age level peers. Abigail’s voice, fluency and oral motor skills were informally assessed and judged to be within normal

The paper challenged her language and logical skills including analogies and definitions. Lydia is about to go into her second year at Colchester County High School for Girls.

In Joy in School, Steven Wolk discusses how U.S. schools are now boring, dull places, where children’s creativity dies. Instead of school being a fun, joyful place, where students learn the wonders and mysteries of life, school is now a six to seven hour, Monday through Friday, work day. Wolk talks about how teachers play a major role in children’s lives and how they have a big, lasting impact on students’ mind-sets. In this article, Wolk discusses the importance of joy in the classroom and discusses different teaching strategies/techniques that teachers can use to make school more fun and pleasurable for their students. Summary/Review

Success is extremely coveted in the society, however on the path to success, obstacles will stand in the way. Failure is inevitable and the response of an individual towards these obstacles and the failures in their lives determines whether or not they will have success. Failure gives allowance to learn from mistakes and motivates to do better the next time. The Pursuit of Happyness uses lighting, music and camera angles to give viewers an insight into Chris’ journey through the film demonstrating his resiliency, optimism and loving personality. Filmmaker, Gabriele Muccino, uses the protagonist, Chris’ final triumph to illustrate the significance of failure in achieving success.

Even though Flowers’ treatment method is unusual it shows how well it adapts to people of other cultures who represent multicultural linguistic variations. As we learned in class, Speech-Language Pathologist must be aware of dialects and be informed about multicultural people in the United States. As responsible clinicians, we must differentiate between disorders and dialects. Even though the clients that Flowers treated suffered from communication disorders, she was still able to apply her knowledge about a variety of cultures and dialects and treat them efficiently. Another aspect of Flowers’ speech therapy practice is her intend to focus on a specific goal for her clients. Through the model of decision making that was discussed in class lecture, a good decision maker sets specific goals for their clients. Besides being attentive to her clients’ needs, Flowers also conducted research before beginning her institute by learning about dolphins and their effect on children with disabilities. Research is always an essential skill to do because it gives insight into data present and past that informs clinicians on different therapy methods. Last, but not least, Flowers’ method of treatment is innovative which is a skill that we as clinicians need. I found Flowers’ treatment to be of interest because of the innovate method of using animals and humans. Not only is the treatment changing the lives of her multicultural clients, but she is also providing a safe home for dolphins. These are my thoughts on Flowers’ method of therapy through the use of

The story of the movie The Pursuit of Happyness directed by Gabriele Muccino portrays a family who struggles with finding enough money to pay taxes and afford living expenses. The movie takes a place in San Francisco during the 80s. The two main characters are the father Chris Gardner and his son Christopher, Will Smith and Jaden Smith respectively. Gardner tries to support his family. But every time he attempts to make things better, they always end up worse. Gardner in the story wonders on "how to be happy?" He earns his money by selling the bone density

In our everyday lives, joy has become synonymous with both happiness and pleasure. We have diminished the meaning of the word by using it in place of the more appropriate terms in order to provide emphasis. C.S. Lewis takes more literal definition of joy, and so assigns it more significance in his mind, separating it from any other emotion. Though he acknowledges that oftentimes happiness and pleasure occur simultaneously with joy, they are not the root cause, nor are they the same emotion. I think the best distinction Lewis makes between happiness and pleasure is when he states “Joy… must have the stab, the pang, the inconsolable longing” (Lewis 72). This look into the root of joy demonstrates that joy is not just happiness, it is more complex and not always a fully positive emotion. There can be sadness and longing behind the joy, but it does not diminish the great properties of joy. Because joy is so great it is often sought, but as Lewis says “it is never a possession, always a desire for something longer ago or further away or still ‘about to be’” (Lewis 78). The fleeting nature of joy only adds to the intrigue, as it often comes at the most unexpected times. Lewis recognizes this, as he titled the book “Surprised by Joy.” Lewis also thinks that one’s definition of joy is constantly changing with our experiences. As he learned more about some subject, one that used to bring him joy to study, he “realizes that this was something quite different from the original Joy.”