Marleen Westerveld

I am a certified practising speech pathologist and researcher in child language and literacy. My main interests relate to children's spontaneous language performance (conversation, story retell, explanations, and persuasion) and children’s (emergent) literacy development. The main aims of my website are to provide you with: 1) access to free resources I created as part of my research – from language sampling elicitation protocols to evidence-based intervention programs; and 2) links to other websites featuring evidence-based practice tools and free resources. Follow me on Instagram for updates to the website including new resources and publications and project updates @dr.marleenwesterveld.slp Marleen Westerveld, PhD, CPSP

Publications

Check out my top publications and conference presentations

Resources

In this section you will find free language sample elicitation protocols and materials.

Links

In this section you will find links to my favourite websites - most of them provide free resources.

Shared Book Reading Intervention Handbook available

By m.westerveld@gmail.comSeptember 25, 2021

I have now uploaded the program handbook: shared book reading intervention, an 8-week shared book reading intervention program for preschoolers with ASD. You will find it on the resources page - intervention programs. It contains the full program, access to resources, and links to 'training' videos. The results were published! You can download the paper

Autism and Literacy Webinar

By m.westerveld@gmail.comNovember 20, 2020Autism, Literacy, Reading, Webinar

Thank you to the Autism Centre of Excellence for inviting me to talk about one of my favourite topics. You can watch the live recording on Facebook: https://fb.watch/1SP2JgKvb6/ or Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/481460060/fb3d016fed I will upload the slides and a list of references to my presentations page.