by sashabro89 | Feb 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
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 | 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 | Uncategorized
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...
by sashabro89 | Dec 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
Oh, the dreaded /r/ sound. When I first started as a speech therapist, I didn’t know where to begin with this sound. Now 4 years later, I have a lot more elicitation techniques within my arsenal: the KARLA method, the single-word /r/ screener, and of course...
by sashabro89 | Nov 27, 2019 | Uncategorized
Let’s be real- it is not easy teaching social-pragmatic skills to adolescents. Not only did most of us not have any courses on this area in graduate school but materials and assessments for social language are still quite scarce. What is out there is often for...
by sashabro89 | Nov 24, 2019 | Uncategorized, writing
Boy, do my middle and high school students hate to write! It’s definitely a challenge to get them working on grammar and sentence structure during speech & language therapy sessions and especially so if I want them to target writing skills. Yet, it’s...
by sashabro89 | Oct 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
Often, getting our students to engage with reading-based therapy tasks can feel like pulling teeth- both for students and therapist! Our school clients often present with co-morbid reading and learning disabilities that make reading a daily struggle, and so it’s...
by sashabro89 | Jun 6, 2019 | Fluency/Stuttering, Uncategorized
With the school year wrapping up, I felt inspired to do an escape-the-room type activity with my speech & language middle school students. I’m still on a tight budget, so I kept things simple. Materials for Break-out Speech Therapy Activity 5-letter lock...
by sashabro89 | May 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
In my earlier post on complex sentences, I talked about teaching student to use and understand a variety of conjunctions. In this post, I’d like to address another area of syntax that can be challenging for students with language impairment: lengthy noun...
by sashabro89 | May 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
It’s a bit late in the month, but I’d like to share some free and cheap resources for BHSM that I think are great for educating teachers and staff about speech-language pathology. 1. This free presentation from Autumn Bryant on our scope of practice is...
