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2009

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January 2009
    Articles in this issue:
    - OAFCCD Update
    - The Social Consequences of Language Disorders: When You Don't know the Rules, You can't Play the Game
    - A Parent Perspective - What do you mean my child can't understand me?
    - Developing Effective IEPs for Student Success
   

2008

May 2008
    Articles included in this issue:
    - New Partnerships Expand Parents as Partners Program
    - "Just a Parent" - I Think NOT!!
    - Setting Smart Goals: The key to client and clinician satisfaction


March 2008
    Articles included in this issue:
    - OAFCCD Provincial Update
    - Oral Language Foundations for Academic Success
    - Ontario Psychological Association Student Assessment Project
    - The Parent Role in the Speech Language Assessment


2007

October 2007
    Articles included in this issue:
    - TIPS for Parents when dealing with School Personnel
    - Parents as Partners Update
    - Directions in Special Education
    - Noisy Classrooms Hurting Students

May 2007
    Articles included in this issue:
    - May is Better Speech, Language & Hearing Month!
    - Parents as Partners - Program Continues to Grow!
    - Fifteen Minutes a Day Can Make a Difference!
    - Ten Tips to Successful Transition to High School


March 2007
    Articles included in this issue:
    - Parents Reaching Out Grants
    - Speech Foundation Tribute Event for George Shields
    - Communication and Learning Challenges Assistive Technology can Help!


2006

November 2006
    Articles included in this issued:
    - Ontario Trillium Foundation supports OAFCCD Parents as Partners Program
    - Transforming Special Education
    - OAFCCD Honours Susan Menary


Spring 2006
    Articles included in this issue:
    - Calling for Help - Making Effective Phone Calls about your Child
    - Learning to Communicate with Children who have Autism - A Mother's Story
    - Tell me a story: Developing your Child's Language through Storytelling


2005

November 2005
    Articles included in this issue:
    - Parents as Partners
    - Tips for Effective Communication with School Staff
    - Libraries For All
    - Helping your child with reading comprehension

September 2005
    Articles included in this issue:
    - Provincial Update
    - Best Start
    - Collaborative Practice and the School SLP
    - Helping Students with Writing Assignments


March 2005
    Articles included in this issue:
    - President's Report
    - Snacks are fro talking too: The KELI Cookbook
    - Great Expectations: Succeeding at School
    - OAFCCD Position on School Speech & Language Services
    - OAFCCD Volunteer Opportunities


2004

September 2004
    Articles included in this issue:
    - Look Back on Ten Years
    - Teaching Strategies to Meet Different Learning Needs
    - Opening the Door into Speech, A Parent's Story

May 2004
    Articles included in this issue:
    - Learning to Learn
    - May is Better Speech, Language and Hearing Month
    - Amethyst Award for Outstanding Achievement by Ontario Public Servants Award to Marlene Stein
    - CASLPA Consumer Advocacy Award to Susan Richards


March 2004
    Articles included in this issue:
    - Provincial Update - OAFCCD Mission and Vision
    - Young Adult outcomes of Children with Communication Disorders: Social and Behavioural Skills
    - How Parents can Help Children to Read
    - OAFCCD Board Members - Profiles of the 2003-2004 Executive

2003

September 2003
    Articles included in this issue:
    - Provincial Update
    - Word and Feelings - Parent article on helping your child express their feelings
    - Preschool Speech and Language Service - More Funding Needed


May 2003
    Articles included in this issue:
    - The role of SLPs in Programming for Children at risk for Reading Failure
    - May is Speech, Language and Hearing Month
    - Communication for Fun, Parent and Child Activity Calendars
    - OAFCCD Future Directions
    

February 2003
    Articles of interest in this issue:
    - Provincial Updates - New Special Education Funding, Special Education Plans, Spring Budget
    - When Kids Tune Out - Strategies for Managing ADHD in Children
    - What is Phonological Awareness and Why is it Important for Children who are learning to Read?
    - Rhyming Activities
   

2002

October 2002
    Articles of interest in this issue:
    - Helping Children Make Friends


May 2002
    Articles of interest in this issue:
    - The Social Consequences of Language Disorders: When you Don't Know the Rules you can't Play the Game


January 2002
    Articles of interest in this issue:
    - Self Advocacy - A skill that needs to be developed
    - Provincial Testing - How you Can Help

2001

September 2001
    Articles of interest in this issue:
    - Delisting of Audiology Services - A major concern for OAFCCD
    - Obituary - Dr. Andy Leeper
    - Central Auditory Processing Disorders


May 2001
   

January 2001
    Articles of interest in this issue:
    - Infant Hearing Screening Available in Ontario
    - Preschool Speech and Language Program Expands
    - Strategies to Help - Listening and Following Directions
    - Tax Tips - Reader to Reader
    - General Suggestions for Improving Organization and Completeness (Discourse Planning)
    - Communipak

2000

September 2000
    Articles of interest in this issue:
    - Specific Language Impairment


May 2000
    

January 2000
    Articles of interest in this issue:
    - Help your Child Stand up to School Yard Bullies!!
    - Homework Tips
    - Augmentative Communication
    - Prepositional Parade


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