Cozy chats about speech, language and learning
How do you work with mixed groups in speech and language therapy? Working in groups in speech and language therapy can be challenging. Often the students will not all be on the same level. You may need to work with a classroom group in which…
 Most of us engage in conversation easily so we give no thought to the dynamics that are involved in a conversation which can make teaching the skills needed for conversation difficult. If you think of a time that you were involved in a social situation…
I work with some amazing team members and yesterday while waiting for a meeting to begin there was a sharing of some new strategies that had been tried to reduce stress and promote attention. They demonstrated the procedures and talked about some mutual cases that…
I am happy to welcome Rosemarie Griffin as a guest blogger. I feel it is important to have an understanding of the variety of treatments that are available to students with autism. Rosemarie Griffin is both a speech-language pathologist and a certified behavior analyst so…
What is Executive Functioning? Johnny races into the room and you can nearly feel the wind as he passes you by. His desk is a mess and homework papers if returned, look like they were run over by a truck. If you inform the parent…
In honor of Autism Acceptance month, I am sharing a fun lesson I do with my students AND giving you a chance to enter a raffle for a ten dollar TPT card ( April 2017). I love using themes in my lessons. It helps students…
Conversations for most of us happens naturally without too much thought. How then do we make the analysis of this skill to teach it to someone who is having difficulty with this? We are nearly taking an autopsy of conversation and dissecting the parts of…
Nursery Rhymes are part of our cultural literature and aids in language development. When children listen to and learn nursery rhymes they are also learning about language and become better readers and writers. They are introduced to new vocabulary and develop an understanding of different…
Social skills, language pragmatic skills can be difficult to write goals for. If you think about the skills in the same way that you consider other language skills this might be a good first start. You need to make an analysis of what you want…
In working with teachers or student speech and language therapist I often find that one of the goals that they want to work on is ‘eye contact’. At first glance, this might make sense as how do we know if a child is listening…