Hi! My name is Lisa, and I am one of two Speech-Language Pathologists at Scott Highlands. This is my 10^th year here at SHMS. I earned both my undergraduate degree in Communication Disorders and my graduate degree in Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Minnesota, Mankato. I achieved my Certificate of Clinical Competency (CCC) in 2001. When I am not working, I enjoy reading, playing volleyball and spending time with my family. Missing from the picture above is our dog Lola and our cat Callie. I just love being a teacher and look forward to a great year of learning.

One of the great things about my job and working at SHMS is that I get to work with a variety of students. No two class periods are the same and there is never a dull moment in room 113! My caseload consists of students in sixth, seventh, and eighth grade. All students on my caseload have one thing in common: a speech and/or language disability. For more information on these classes, please see course descriptions and links to resources.

Course Descriptions

DCD Developmental Cognitive Disabilities: This classroom of students work on language activities, functional community-based activities, and social skills. A typically weekly schedule is as follows:

Monday-Wednesday: Language Activity

Thursday: Social Skills

Friday: Functional Community Based Language Activities

Social Skills: Social thinking is the focus in this class. Social thinking is defined as our innate ability to think through and apply information to succeed in situations that require social knowledge. Social thinking is a form of intelligence that is key to learning concepts and integrating information across a variety of settings; academic, social, home and community. Limited abilities for learning and/or applying socially relevant information can be considered a social thinking learning disability. See calendar to the right of this page for a listing of events in our quest to become social thinkers!

Communications Lab: This classroom of students work diligently to improve their language skills by engaging in a variety of language building activities and curriculum that support their continued language development and literacy skills. See calendar to the right of this page for a listing of events in Communications Lab.