Message from Speech Teachers

Speech and Language Therapy

Welcome back to the 2016-2017 school year at Brownsburg Early Childhood Center.  Here at BECC, we are a team of speech language pathologists.  The team consists of Jenni Shellhorn (full time SLP), Lorraine Jeter (full time SLPA), and Lynn France (part time SLP). 

An SLP stands for speech language pathologist.  In the educational field, we focus on all forms of communication, such as:

Speech: improving a student’s speech intelligibility.  Articulation is the way a sound is produced.  Phonology is the pattern of sound errors that typically developing children use to simplify speech as they are learning to talk.

Language: includes receptive language (what is understood) and expressive language (what is said).  Language therapy includes skills such as following directions, grammar, and vocabulary.

Fluency:  improving students’ speech who have difficulty maintaining fluent speech (stutter).

Social:  increasing verbal and nonverbal social language in order to improve communication between individuals.

As SLPs, our main goal is to provide speech and language services throughout the school day as outlined by your student’s Individualized Education Plan (IEP).  Our second goal is to increase parent communication by providing weekly updates posted on teacher blogs, biweekly homework sheets, and monthly calendars targeting various speech and language activities.  Additionally, the SLP team welcomes emails and phone calls with specific questions regarding your child’s needs.  Reach out to us with your concerns and we will return a response within 48 hours.

We look forward to a brand new year!  It will be our pleasure to meet and begin working with your child during the 2016-2017 school year.

Jenni Shellhorn, MHS, CCC-SLP – jshellhorn@brownsburg.k12.in.us

Lorraine Jeter, BS, SLPA – ljeter@brownsburg.k12.in.us

Lynn France, MA, CCC-SLP – lfrance@brownsburg.k12.in.us

We can be reached by phone through the main number at 317-852-1046, ext 2012.