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 | Nov 27, 2019 | Pragmatics, Problem-Solving, 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 | Jun 6, 2019 | Context Clues, Expressive Language, Fluency/Stuttering, Grammar, Pragmatics, Problem-Solving, Receptive Language, syntax, Uncategorized, Vocabulary
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 17, 2019 | Problem-Solving, Receptive Language, 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 | Apr 18, 2019 | Pragmatics, Problem-Solving, 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...
