3 Affordable AAC apps

3 Affordable AAC apps

by | Sep 5, 2021 | AAC, Autism, 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...

Supporting and Respecting Autistic Children & Teens

by | Jun 18, 2021 | Autism

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...

Wh Questions Activities for Older Students

by | May 21, 2021 | Uncategorized

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,...

Sentence Combining Activities: The Roundup

by | Feb 19, 2021 | Uncategorized

Resource shows that sentence combing is a really effective way to expand and improve syntax or sentence structure for our adolescent students with Specific Language Impairment; however, *finding* free or low-cost and easily accessible activities that target this skill...

Middle School Language Goals

by | Jan 5, 2021 | Uncategorized

I don’t know about you but when I first started working in middle school, I was tough to transition from elementary to secondary level speech & language goals. Students in middle and high school are spending less time reading narrative or stories and more...