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,...
by sashabro89 | Feb 19, 2021 | Expressive Language, syntax, Uncategorized, writing
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...
by sashabro89 | Feb 1, 2021 | Expressive Language, Literacy, Receptive Language, Uncategorized, Vocabulary
Secondary school students with language impairments are often quite behind their peers in vocabulary, and it can be difficult to know where to start with them; moreover, we want to find a way to target their vocabulary deficit and use middle/high school class and...
by sashabro89 | Jan 5, 2021 | Context Clues, Expressive Language, Receptive Language, syntax, Uncategorized, Vocabulary
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...
by sashabro89 | Mar 19, 2020 | Expressive Language, Grammar, Receptive Language, syntax, Uncategorized, writing
Grammar and sentence structure goals are pretty common for our middle and high school speech and language students, yet it can be difficult to come up with ways to target them that keep our students engaged. I find my students get sick of answering questions about...
by sashabro89 | Mar 8, 2020 | Receptive Language, syntax, Uncategorized, Vocabulary
If you’ve been following my posts Teaching Complex Sentences and Teaching Complex Sentences II: Lengthy Nouns, you may already know that many students with SLI struggle with comprehension at the sentence structure level and need explicit instruction. ...
by sashabro89 | Feb 17, 2020 | Expressive Language, Receptive Language, Uncategorized, Vocabulary
I don’t know about you, but I have found those HedBanz questions pretty inadequate for teaching my students how to describe vocabulary. Similarly, EET type guides or TPT visuals that focus on category, function, location, etc can be great for basic nouns but...
by sashabro89 | Feb 3, 2020 | Expressive Language, Grammar, Receptive Language, Uncategorized, writing
Because I work at a fairly diverse district, I hear a lot of different dialects being spoken by my students. I do not write goals around it because obviously students are entitled to their culture and speaking style; however, I do like to at least teach students that...
by sashabro89 | Feb 2, 2020 | Literacy, Receptive Language, Uncategorized, writing
One of the major issues I encounter with secondary school students is they both don’t know how to and are generally unwilling to take notes on what they read. Recently, this got me thinking about a sketching/pictograph technique I used all the way in my student...
