Teaching Complex Sentences

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...

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...

Just Say No to Multiple Choice Worksheets

We’ve all been there.  It’s a busy week with IEPs and evaluation/re-evaluations galore.  The paperwork is overflowing, you’re feeling sick, and you reach for the pre-printed worksheet.  Maybe it’s one on context clues or complex sentences or...