Orange County Public Schools Orlando FL Ronald Blocker Superintendent

Cooking Up Preschool Literacy Anna D. Diaz, Associate Superintendent Janice Lemp, MS, CCC-SLP Beth Rivera, MA, CCC-SLP

Challenge To improve emergent language and literacy outcomes in preschool children with disabilities in preparation for Kindergarten success.

Dialogic Reading Program Read It Again-PreK Dialogic Reading Program Read It Again-PreK  Laura Justice, PhD.  Anita Mc Ginty, PhD.

Methodology OCPS Speech Language Pathologists and Pre K varying exceptionalities teachers collaborated to present reading sessions to students with disabilities.

Collaboration In OCPS 268 children ages 3 to 5 years of age In PreK VE classes 268 children ages 3 to 5 years of age In PreK VE classes Eligible for exceptional education services in one or more areas of developmental delay Eligible for exceptional education services in one or more areas of developmental delay

Speech-Language Pathologist and Pre-K ESE teachers plan and implement the language and read aloud sessions Speech-Language Pathologist and Pre-K ESE teachers plan and implement the language and read aloud sessions Pre-K ESE Paraprofessionals Pre-K ESE Paraprofessionals Collaboration In OCPS

Read It Again-PreK Correlates with Florida PreK Standards Read It Again-PreK Correlates with Florida PreK Standards General Domains of RIA-PreK –Print Awareness –Phonological Awareness –Vocabulary –Narrative

Key Findings Students made improvements in all four areas of emergent literacy from week 2 to week 22. Greatest improvements were made in Print Knowledge and Phonological Awareness. Some students with disabilities demonstrated skills that demonstrated achievement state PreK standards.

References  Reading Rockets, Grover J. (Russ) Whitehurst (1992) Grover J. (Russ) Whitehurst (1992); ; erpoint%20for%20State%20Roll-out.p erpoint%20for%20State%20Roll-out.p erpoint%20for%20State%20Roll-out.p  What Work Clearinghouse, US Department of Education Institute of Education Success ing/index.asp ing/index.asp ing/index.asp  Read it Again-Prek! Justice, Laura and Ginty, Anita

Contact Information Janice Lemp Program Specialist Preschool Disabilities Elizabeth Rivera Sr. Administrator Speech and Language Program