
Mrs. Deborah Collinsworth Simmons M.C.D.
Speech-Language Pathologist
838 RIVER RD SHREVEPORT LA, 71105About
Dr. Deborah Simmons is a speech language pathologist practicing in SHREVEPORT, LA. Dr. Simmons specializes in speech, language and swallowing disorders in patients. As a speech language pathologist, Dr. Simmons evaluates, diagnoses and treats patients with communication and swallowing troubles. These conditions may be due to developmental delay, brain injury, hearing loss, autism, stroke or other diseases and injuries. Dr. Simmons helps patients make sounds and improve their voices through various methods. Speech language pathologists also work with patients to strengthen muscles used to speak and swallow, and work with individuals and families to help cope with their conditions.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Beginning reading intervention as inoculation or insulin: first-grade reading performance of strong responders to kindergarten intervention.
- Improving beginning reading instruction and intervention for students with LD: reconciling "all" with "each".
- Indexing response to intervention: a longitudinal study of reading risk from kindergarten through third grade.
- The effects and interactions of student, teacher, and setting variables on reading outcomes for kindergartners receiving supplemental reading intervention.
- Examining the effects of linking student performance and progression in a tier 2 kindergarten reading intervention.
- Predictive Validity of Curriculum-Embedded Measures on Outcomes of Kindergarteners Identified as At Risk for Reading Difficulty.
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