by sashabro89 | Feb 2, 2020 | 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...
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 | 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...
