Cozy chats about speech, language and learning
Parent/Speech Therapist meetings are a chance to celebrate and to collaborate with the families of the children we are seeing. Welcome/ Invite/ Observe/ Listen: create an environment that is welcoming and encourages a conversation. I like your meetings to have a sandwich effect: Start out…
Progress Reports Writing clinical reports is an important skill for any speech and language pathologist. The writing needs to be both professional yet written in a family friendly way.  It is important to consider your audience when you are writing and to provide enough information that…
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…
I love what I do and have always found the profession of a speech and language pathologist to be a fabulous one! I however, was surprised to find out so did some other famous people. Jay Leno: Comedian, TV host, actor: BA in speech pathology…
As a speech and language pathologist, as in life we need to be flexible. You will be at a work site that might do things in a different way that you may have been taught or the way the last work site had you do…
In writing therapy SOAP notes or progress notes it is important that we keep emotions or opinions out of the notes. Keep these things in mind: Record fact not opinion. Avoid words that are inherently subjective Don’t say ” Child was bored ” rather say…
ASHA, the American Speech, Language,and Hearing Association  clarifies that ” Articulation approaches target each sound deviation and are often selected by the clinician when the child’s errors are assumed to be motor-based; the aim is the correct production of the target sound(s). Phonological approaches target a…
Getting good baseline information is very important when working with students as it gives a good starting point. The clearer you write this on the goal sheet or lesson plan the easier it is for anyone reading it to understand not just where the child…
Making mistakes are part of life. My dad always told me to look at pencils they come with erasers as everyone makes a mistake. However sometimes knowing a mistake another person has made helps to prevent us from making the same one. In working with…
Besides learning to break the phonetic code and sounding out words knowing sight words is crucial to being a reader. Sight word recognition is one of the important building blocks in a child learning to read. If a child is successful with sight words they will…