Happy Birthday to me!! Ok now that is a little off topic but I had to wish myself a happy birthday.
Now back to business, so far this week, I have done most of my assignments for class at work. Like the discussions, and the journal I am now typing. I was pretty much caught up on week 2 assignments last saturday. I spent most of this week doing other assignments for other classes. I did however just now complete the three discussions for week 3. I went online yesterday evening and looked up some of the mailing lists to subscribe to. I copied the ones I wanted to look into and saved them. I was kinda pressed for time. I did find some that looked like I would be interested in though. I hope to find some information to help me come up with a topic for the MRP. I have completed the discussion assignments, about the essential question, and foundation questions. I don't know if my question has to be my topic or not. I think mine might be a little broad. It is also kind of general, just something that I have been focusing on for a few weeks now. I hope to be able to subscribe to the mailing lists tonight or tomorrow and begin to get some information. I do subscribe to a newsletter already. I have been receiving the newsletter for about 6-7 months now. I subscribed to it last spring when we had our screening folder assignment. I receive different ideas on therapy activities. It is really interesting stuff, and I am sure it will be useful to me. I save them all on a disc so if I need them down the road they are there. That is something I think I have done that helps me understand the importance of computer networking. Anyway I have been busy this week with this class and others. I am still trying to keep up with all the assignments in order as they come, so I don't get caught in a dead rush to finish them in the end. Still-so far so good!
MDS

What are the most effective steps in preparing for a diagnostic evaluation?

This was my essential question last week. For this I would probably come up with a few foundation questions like:

What is a diagnostic evaluation?

Who would be involved in this process?

What materials are needed for a diagnostic evaluation?

Where do you perform a diagnostic evalution?

What is the reason for a diagnostic evalution?

What kind of information could you get from a diagnostic evaluation?

Michelle

My experience as a learner....hmmmm. Well I don't recall ever thinking I had learned anything until I went to college. The highschool I went to (believe it or not) didn't stress "learning". Atleast that is how I remember it. I don't ever remember actually discovering that I had learned anything, until college. I would think that that was a barrier in my process of learning. I mean good grief, if I actually knew the importance of an education early enough I might have become a rocket scientist for all I know! (just kidding...maybe) But seriously, when I sit down and consider myself learning I become excited about it. What I like most about my learning process is when someone asks me a question about something and I can just go on and on about it. It makes me feel really good inside to know that I knew that, and actually understood it enough to explain it to someone else that didn't know it. That may sound silly, but that is the sort of thing my education does for me. Besides the fact that I am actually going to know how to help a child or an adult with a communication disorder.

Michelle