by sashabro89 | Apr 26, 2022 | AAC, Autism, Expressive Language, Uncategorized
While I often write about serving students in regular education classrooms or learning support, today I’d like to discuss supporting our students in the autism support classrooms- particularly those who are non-speaking or minimally speaking without mastery of...
by sashabro89 | Sep 5, 2021 | AAC, Autism, Expressive Language, Uncategorized
Today’s post is all about AAC apps and how parents/families can easily obtain and set up their child’s communication device. While I highly encourage families to meet with a speech-language therapist that specializes in augmentative & alternative...
by sashabro89 | Jul 16, 2021 | Articulation, Childhood Apraxia, Expressive Language, Uncategorized
I’ve recently been refreshing my knowledge of childhood apraxia of speech. It is amazing how so much free information is available on apraxia-kids.org and childapraxiatreatment.org. I also love how you can watch an entire DTTC training by Edith Stand on...
by sashabro89 | Jun 18, 2021 | Autism, Problem-Solving
Now that the school year is over, it seems a good time to reflect on how our profession treats autistic individuals or “autistics” as many like to self-identify themselves. When I first started working with autistic children in clinical practicum, I...
by sashabro89 | May 21, 2021 | Literacy, Receptive Language, Uncategorized, Vocabulary
Working with middle and high school students, I know how challenging it can be to find functional WH-question activities that are not babyish. I am also keenly aware that the picture sets we use for WH-questions are not always the most functional; in other words,...
