Better Speech & Hearing Month

It’s a bit late in the month, but I’d like to share some free and cheap resources for BHSM that I think are great for educating teachers and staff about speech-language pathology. 1. This free presentation from Autumn Bryant on our scope of practice is...

Generating Definitions

Why Can’t My Students Give Definitions? For students with language disorders, definitions are tough work.  It’s consistently the weakest subtest for many of my adolescent students on assessments like the CELF-5 and the TOLD (Test of Language Development). ...

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...