Cozy chats about speech, language and learning
My students love this game! You have been invited to a Potluck dinner What are you bringing to the potluck? Can we guess what it might be? This is a receptive/expressive language activity that can be played multiple ways. I was trying to have my…
It is great that there are so many great materials that can be used in speech therapy but we need to recognize that these are tools and not the therapy. So just as you would not say that a house was built by a ‘hammer’…
How do you teach vowel sounds in speech therapy? Did you ever have a student that sounded as if they had an accent but they really didn’t? Have you ever evaluated a child for speech but their single word assessment was good but they were…
Are you igniting your student’s high order thinking skills or are you stuck at the basic recall of information questions? If you are attempting to create opportunities for Bloom’s Taxonomy of questions giving a range and depth to what we are requiring for students how are…
Wish that writing therapy goals were as simple as child’s play but alas they are not. In the clinic, there is a need to write these goals according to the practices that you learned in pre-practicum. Here is a PowerPoint that explains the procedure. Writing Goals and…
What do you think of when you think of popsicle sticks? Does it bring up memories of enjoying a summer day with your friends while you ate a cool treat? Do you think of the pleasure of splitting a double pop to share with your…
My students love stories with a twist!. This has twelve verses that have my students giggling especially when the Elephant tries to climb the clock! Hickory Dickory Dock is a nursery rhyme that is great to also teach some story grammar features while using a…
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…