Cozy chats about speech, language and learning
In working with data it can be difficult to see many numbers embedded into a paragraph. So what can you do?  I find it helpful to put numbers in a table and to have that table be prior to the narrative that explains the numbers. Here…
Anderson et al (2004) American Secondary Education 32. 19-36 gives six practices that have been shown to be most helpful for the student with language learning disabilities in the classroom. Mnemonic strategies: presenting strategies, keywords or facts that need to be memorize using mnemonics can assist the…
Creating goals for students is a process that is always evolving. Sometimes it is helpful to see how others have constructed their goals to be able to refine the ones that we are developing. Here are examples of Summer 2017 URI student clinicians constructed according…
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…
Okay, true confession, I am a terrible speller. I went to parochial school and we had weekly spelling bees and tests. I consistently was the first one out in the spelling bee. The nuns would try to teach me and I remember one of them proclaiming ”…
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…
SOAP Notes: SOAP notes are a way to quickly communicate about what went on in a therapy session. The initials stand for: S: SUBJECTIVE O: OBJECTIVE A: ASSESSMENT P: PLAN You are writing them in the clinic it is because this is often what is…
Are you always on time with your paperwork? Do you get 100% on every test? Are you always right? You are probably saying of course not. You need to think about this when writing your goals for your students. They are having therapy because they…
Where are you going? How will you get there? These are important questions at the beginning of the semester treatment. Â Here is are some examples of great goals this semester. Make sure you explore some of the other posts that also have examples of goals…
When you are working with a student that has language and social pragmatic difficulties it may be harder for you to verbally explain a social skill or rule. Many of these students are visual learners so you need to think of how can I assist…