Speech and language

Would you be lost without your Smartphone? How many of you would go back home if you realized that you had forgotten your phone?   Why is this? It keeps us organized, informed and connected to our world. That is very similar to what the…

  I am reading ” The Last Lecture”  a book written by Randy Pausch, a Computer Scientist  who passed away 2008 from cancer. He was asked to give a lecture as if would be his last, unfortunately when asked he had actually been given just months…

  SMART goals are an essential part of the work of a speech and language pathologist. Here is a reference that has many resources for SMART goals. SMART goals http://prakovic.wikispaces.com/Goal+Writing We need to make SMART goals not only for our students but also for ourselves. S:…

    Each year I chose a classic story and use that has the basis of my lessons. I  feel that it is important that our children learn the classics and not just the Disney versions of stories. So much of our literature is part…

 It is really important that when we are working with children with special needs that we think about age appropriate materials. There are times that this is called “ Normalization” as it is insuring that we are exposing and allowing the person with disabilities to…

As a speech and language pathologist we often are going from case to case. Our students are coming in from something different and they too need time to adjust to therapy session. Rules and routines assist in setting up the session so that it is…

This is it. You finally have your first clinical assignment.  A multitude of feelings come over you, excitement about finally being able to “do” the task that you have been putting so much academic effort into, anxiety about what your client will be like, the…

Are we creating Independent Learners? What are we doing to encourage self-advocacy in our students?

I have been working with my kindergarten classes using Story Grammar Marker and the EET ( Expanding Expression Tool: see previous post November 4,2013).  Yesterday we listened to ” The Great Fuzz Frenzy” by Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel.  Prior to reading the book we used the…

I have been using a new visual tool, the EET or the Expanding Expression Tool. It can be purchased through  http://www.expandingexpression.com/.       Each of the beads represents a different aspect of what you can say about an object or a picture. Green: group…