Health: speech pathologist enjoys helping children overcome reading and spelling difficulties

By Josh Jennings
Updated April 25 2015 - 6:18pm, first published 5:29pm
Paediatric speech pathologist, Elise Cassidy, at work with one of her charges.
Paediatric speech pathologist, Elise Cassidy, at work with one of her charges.
Paediatric speech pathologist, Elise Cassidy, at work with one of her charges.
Paediatric speech pathologist, Elise Cassidy, at work with one of her charges.
Paediatric speech pathologist, Elise Cassidy, at work with one of her charges.
Paediatric speech pathologist, Elise Cassidy, at work with one of her charges.

Paediatric speech pathologist Elise Cassidy gets the opportunity to reset the developmental trajectory of many young people who struggle with communication and literacy. Last year, for example, she says she worked with a young boy who was having particular trouble spelling. It was her job to assess how the boy was hearing sounds in words and have him break up the words into their individual sounds. She also gave the boy strategies to enable him to identify the individual sounds in words and the letters to spell those sounds.

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