Summary: Unidentified speech issues in students cam have a profound impact on their literacy and ability to succeed academically. School nurses are a in key position to spot students who need special attention in this area. In this segment we talk about common speech issues and how to identify them. Nancy Carrera RN, is lead nurse at a special needs school with a mixture of medically fragile and developmentally delayed students and a mother of a multi-handicapped 20 year old daughter who attends the school. Deborah Adamczyk Dixon, M.A. CCC-SLP, Director, School Services, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). She also served as a member of ASHA's Legislative Council, the Council on Academic Accreditation (CAA) and on various ASHA committees.
