Teaching Complex Sentences II: Lengthy Nouns

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...

Free Social Skills Round-up

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...

Social Skills in the Age of Peer Pressure

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...

Adolescent Grammar & Sentence Structure

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...