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The most impactful thing I learned this semester was consolidating my knowledge from last spring semester. I’ve also have gained additional skill in looking at research with a critical eye.

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The most impactful thing I learned was about adult literacy and how it directly affects health outcomes. We rarely ever talk about adults outside of stoke/ dementia and this is overlooking a very large population, as we learned. I appreciated learning about the suggestions for assessments and treatments. -Eileen

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Learning about all of the intervention approaches in more detail has made me feel more comfortable in my abilities to provide these services and know when they might be appropriate. There are several different approaches and the ability to co-teach for some of them could greatly benefit the entire class and the teacher.

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The most impactful thing I learned (all of it was really meaningful as it is many aspects covered in this course are closely tied together and build upon each other) was the importance of identification. The longer children go unidentified means the longer they go without remediation, thus perpetuating the cycle of low literacy skills. So important! -E. Sessions

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I really liked all of the application projects! It can be overwhelming and there are so many out there, so it was nice to get a good overview.-  Lallie

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Learning about adult literacy and the impact that it has on quality of life in adults because I had never learned about it in detail! I want to work with adults, so it is really important for me to keep this in mind. Even if I am not seeing a client specifically for literacy, now I will know to take this into consideration. -Molly O.

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The most impactful thing that I learned this semester was more in-depth information about he many components of the simple view of reading. I think this will be really helpful in guiding practice and knowing what to target in intervention!

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The most impactful thing I learned this semester was how big of a role literacy plays in an individuals life and how well suited we are to help them. Understanding how much we rely on literacy and how qualified we are to help, I feel more empowered to advocate for better literacy instruction and intervention. Even if I’m not going to be working with kids!

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Integrating and effectively using all of the knowledge and evidence-based research I know and will continue to learn. I do not think there is such thing as too much knowledge or too many options, but sometimes it feels that way with all that we have learned and will learn.

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I liked learning about the impact of adult literacy issues and how to appropriately assess and intervene

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Learning about all of the different types of interventions and how we can adjust them for different populations and diagnosis.

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Learning about how to help adults with poor literacy skills and how much their poor literacy affects their daily life! - Emily Szabo

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The most impactful thing I learned this semester is the detriments of illiteracy on adults!! It really makes me want to strive harder to tackle the problem head on and emphasize early detection and be an advocate.

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Honestly, the most impactful thing I learned this semester is that there is no one way or even “right” way to target different elements of literacy. Our application projects demonstrated this! So much evidence-based practice going on out there. I was able to gather more information about how to target phonological awareness, syntax, vocabulary, etc. and how to adapt to the needs of students with deficits in these areas. (Liz Deutchki)

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Learning all the interventions and feeling like I have the knowledge and ability to find an intervention that is best for my potential students.

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the important role of background knowledge and comprehension

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For me, the most impactful thing was being able to see how much literacy impacts everything that we do. In my other classes this semester, including public health and AVT I’m able to integrate knowledge from this class about reading development and also CLD factors to be a better clinician and support my clients using EBP.

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I learned that literacy is not as scary as I thought. With the help of different intervention strategies with great rationale, I'm not as nervous to take on literacy.

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learning about the negative aspects that are associated with poor literacy skills (incarceration rates, poor health literacy, low SES)

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The most impactful thing I learned was about considerations regarding assessment and intervention for adult literacy clients. That was honestly something I had never learned about or considered before! - CP

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I think the correlation and integration of all components of literacy and where we as SLPs fit into that is the biggest thing that stuck out to me. The collaboration, the different aspects of each intervention, why setbacks occur, etc that we discussed  and literacy through the lifespan all painted a clearer picture for me!

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I learned more about the specific role of an SLP with teach students (and adults) literacy. Prior to this course, I thought that three was only a role for SLPs within the school system. Likewise, reading is more than just learning words and memorizing! - MH

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there is always a right time to address literacy!

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I think that sight words are not the holy grail for literacy instruction. Instead, we ought to use a small number of sight words to study in detail alongside phonics. I have been taught in so many other courses and by so many educators how important sight words are, so this was surprising to me. Also, literacy is complex, but we have the tools we need to be able to effectively serve literacy clients.

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Learning more about early detection and the identification process!

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I think learning about all of the different application programs was impactful. It gave us a variety of programs we can potentially use in our future clinical practice with children or adults. I liked how we were provided with some of the evidence and lesson plans to give us an idea of how it is used and how it is beneficial.

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i liked learning about literacy with adults!

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This class continued to highlight the importance of us advocating for our patients. We might be the first person who notices that a child is demonstrating a language disorder and early intervention is so important as we talked about.

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I think the most impactful thing was learning about oral language and how it is tied to written language skills.

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I really appreciated learning about adult literacy. That was something we’d never covered before in any class, and I think it was helpful to think about the long-term impacts of literacy issues from that perspective.

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The most impactful thing I learned this semester was the information about various literacy interventions. I feel better equipped to pick an evidence-based intervention after completing and listening to the application projects.

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How to write a common place book

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The  most impactful thing I learned this semester: how to begin teaching reading to young kids. I think it was easier to understand the process when it was broken down by each step in the process.