Cozy chats about speech, language and learning
I have been a speech and language pathologist for 37 years (YIKES!). Each year I think I think of a different way to better organize my data, my materials and how to stay on top of each of my student’s goals. This is part of…
I am always looking for ways to connect with families and include them in their child’s treatment. This has meant homework for my articulation children, and vocabulary letters to my language children with a note that they can get a vocabulary keychain from me to…
I am linking up with Kim from Activity Tailor to share an experience that made me speechless! I love my job, every day there is something that makes me smile. My day job is at a kindergarten to 2nd-grade school. There is a young boy who…
As part of my group work within the special education room, I have a story as part of the routine. I have a variety of students in this room who are all are different levels of expressive language and who have different goals. In order…
Recently a graduate student stated that they wanted to use a time timer but did not have one. Using a time timer is a great thing. It is visual. It clearly indicates the time for the person. HOWEVER, we don’t always have access to a…
Listening Comprehension skills versus Reading Comprehension Skills I know that it may be confusing when you are writing goals but if you are the person that is reading the story to a child what we are measuring is listening. If the child is the only…
Story Retell: Story Retell is one way to measure listening or reading comprehension. This is usually done using a rubric as there are so many elements that need to be measured as well as the support that you may be giving to the student. Reading…
When I was studying to be a speech and language pathologist back in the dark ages there was a topic of discussion ” Is it art or is it science?” This discussion is definitely applicable to determining treatment time. You do need to look at…
Here are some examples of some great goals this semester. Sometimes looking at other goals help to formulate your own. Apraxia Casey wrote: Goal: By the end of the semester, CHILD will improve intelligibility as evidenced by the accurate production of final /g/ at the…
Old MacDonald is a favorite song of the students that I work with. This simple song has choice making and a sentence request board. This particular song is great for language learning. It is an easy melody for children to learn The repeating chorus helps…