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...

Context Clues: Start with the Basics

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...

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...