by sashabro89 | Mar 19, 2020 | Expressive Language, Grammar, Receptive Language, syntax, Uncategorized, writing
Grammar and sentence structure goals are pretty common for our middle and high school speech and language students, yet it can be difficult to come up with ways to target them that keep our students engaged. I find my students get sick of answering questions about...
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 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
Complex sentences are the bread and butter of academic subjects. Language arts, science, and even math classes are rife with long, complex sentences that students with speech/language impairments find difficult to decipher. Speech-Language Pathologists sometimes...
by sashabro89 | Apr 18, 2019 | 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...
by sashabro89 | Apr 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
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...
