Cozy chats about speech, language and learning
Language development unfolds in remarkable stages during early childhood, and one of the most important building blocks is a child’s ability to use grammar—especially verb tense (when something happened) and subject-verb agreement (making verbs “match” the subject). These skills help children tell stories, share experiences,…
Often the students that we are trying to teach tenses to are very young so that they are not readers. This can complicate how we teach them regular and irregular verbs. One way is to display pictures and to teach the tenses as a sequence.…
Here are some examples of some great goals this semester. Sometimes looking at other goals help to formulate your own. Apraxia Casey wrote:Â Goal: By the end of the semester, CHILD will improve intelligibility as evidenced by the accurate production of final /g/ at the…
Baseline: the starting point of therapy The first thing that one does prior to beginning therapy is to take baseline information to determine the most appropriate goals you should develop. I am writing this blog as some clinicians are having difficulty writing these. The American…