Sentence Combining Activities: The Roundup

Resource shows that sentence combing is a really effective way to expand and improve syntax or sentence structure for our adolescent students with Specific Language Impairment; however, *finding* free or low-cost and easily accessible activities that target this skill...

How to Target Writing in Speech

Boy, do my middle and high school students hate to write!  It’s definitely a challenge to get them working on grammar and sentence structure during speech & language therapy sessions and especially so if I want them to target writing skills.  Yet, it’s...

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...

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...