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...
by sashabro89 | May 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
Sick of playing board games or reading hypothetical scenarios for your speech/language therapy students to problem-solve? Tired of pulling out those dull picture cards? Well, I have finally found a problem-solving resource that is actually engaging and very practical:...
by sashabro89 | May 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
Complex sentences are the bread and butter of academic subjects. Language arts, science, and even math classes are rife with long, complex sentences that students with speech/language impairments find difficult to decipher. Speech-Language Pathologists sometimes...
by sashabro89 | May 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
I know it’s hard to find social skills resources for adolescents in speech therapy, even more so free ones. Over time I’ve found some gems in my many pages of google search, so I thought I’d share my tween/tween social skills activities with you...
by sashabro89 | Apr 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
Why Can’t My Students Give Definitions? For students with language disorders, definitions are tough work. It’s consistently the weakest subtest for many of my adolescent students on assessments like the CELF-5 and the TOLD (Test of Language Development). ...
by sashabro89 | Apr 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
Photo by Kobe Michael on Pexels.com The Problems with Expected vs Unexpected Behaviors Recently, I’ve been teaching my social skills groups about expected vs. unexpected behaviors. We sometimes run into the problem of “expected” vs...
by sashabro89 | Apr 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
Why Context-Clues Are Challenging I’ll be honest here: I’ve never been a great lover of context clues. While we often write goals for correctly inferring a word’s meaning from context, this is much less black and white than it sounds. I have heard...
by sashabro89 | Apr 5, 2019 | Uncategorized, writing
Grammar & Sentence Structures Difficulties in Middle & High School I’ve noticed a trend when it comes to working on grammar and sentence structure with middle and high school speech & language therapy students. My students often look like they have...
by sashabro89 | Mar 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
When your articulation students are in elementary school, they love any kind of game: Candyland, Shoots & Ladders, Pop the Pig. One time I even made a phonology game with tongue depressors, a permanent marker, & a plastic cup! Yet middle & high school...
by sashabro89 | Mar 26, 2019 | Fluency/Stuttering, Uncategorized
What to Focus on in Adolescent Stuttering Therapy I don’t know about you, but I find it difficult to get middle and high school speech therapy students to open about…. well, anything. So I’ve found it particularly challenging to get my students who...
