by sashabro89 | Mar 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
Ever ask yourself why your older speech & language students struggle so greatly with fluent reading? I’ll admit that this was pretty unfamiliar territory for me when I first started as a speech-language pathologist; literacy skills were not in our graduate...
by sashabro89 | Mar 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
Before I became a speech & language therapist, I worked for two years as a special education aide. Those two short years were enough to learn just how undervalued and underestimated a paraprofessional or special education aide can be in terms of their role in a...
by sashabro89 | Mar 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
By the time my speech therapy students are in older grades, it can be difficult to change their perspective on reading. They will say they hate reading, that it is “boring”, and that they are not successful at it. Consequently, I find that working on...
by sashabro89 | Mar 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
We’ve all been there. It’s a busy week with IEPs and evaluation/re-evaluations galore. The paperwork is overflowing, you’re feeling sick, and you reach for the pre-printed worksheet. Maybe it’s one on context clues or complex sentences or...
by sashabro89 | Mar 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
I know you’re asking this question. With everything that’s out there, from SLPNow to TPT materials to all beautiful blogs out there, why add one more? What more can I say that hasn’t been said, done, written already? Well first, let me tell you my...