Cozy chats about speech, language and learning
I am celebrating my 44th year as a speech and language pathologist and the majority of them have been in the public schools. What is the speech and language pathologist’s role in the schools? Speech-language pathologists (also known as speech therapists) play a vital role…
There never seems to be enough money in the school budget to cover what is needed for the students. This means as school speech and language pathologists or classroom teachers we need to reach into our pockets to help meet this need. Our pockets however…
It is important to have an understanding of the tiers of vocabulary. Recently I was working with a group of Providence College graduate students as we created a reading lesson plan using the story ‘Caps for Sale’ for students with autism spectrum disorder. As part…
This has been a FABULOUS summer integrating gamification, technology, and active learning during a graduate course at Providence college on Language Disorders. Regretfully this is the last summer as the program it was part of has at this point been discontinued. It has been a…
Technology is essential in our teaching whether we are working with K-12 or university students. In order for teachers to feel comfortable about incorporating technology into their teaching, we need to during their preservice education make sure we expose them to it. We need to…
One of my favorite things to do in the summer is read on the beach. When that reading transforms my thinking or my practice of teaching I feel doubly gifted. Edrenaline Rush by John Meehan is one such book. This may end up being a series as…
I have been very fortunate in my life to have had some amazing work adventures! For the last twelve years, I have worked at the University of Rhode Island’s Speech and Hearing Clinic as a clinical supervisor. A university clinic is similar to an educational…
Clinical writing speech-language pathology is an important skill to review not just for the graduate student but also for the professional speech and language pathologist. You may have been an amazingly creative writer in school but now the skills that made you so talented then,…
One of the first things we do when we meet a new client as stated in another blog is to do an initial assessment to gather a baseline. It is very important that we clearly define this baseline so that it is clear exactly what…
Assessment drives instruction. Evaluation data helps to drive the instruction of a student. When we take baseline we get a direction for our teaching. Prior to seeing a new student/client, we read through their records to develop a picture and to make a group of…