speech and language pathologists

Auditory Bombardment is an evidenced-based approach for articulation therapy. Having the child hear the sound said correctly assists them. Articulation Treatment Ear training or speech perception training is one research-based treatment or Evidenced-Based Practice (EBP) that is recommended to help the child acquire a perceptual representation…

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…

Have you been to a movie lately?  What happens before the main movie?  You typically are watching movie previews. Why do movie theaters do this?  They want to entice you to want to see the movie that they are previewing. The same thing should happen…

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…

In honor of Autism Acceptance month, I am sharing a fun lesson I do with my students AND giving you a chance to enter a raffle for a ten dollar TPT card ( April 2017). I love using themes in my lessons. It helps students…

When we are writing social skills goals for IEPs although we are looking at the big picture we need to narrow down our topic so that it is achievable in the time that we to work with the student. If we have a child who…

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…

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…

  There are some great commercial games that will assist students in learning not just pragmatics but problem-solving and inferencing.  You just need to make sure that you are giving them the supports they need to play.  Guess Who Here is one support:  it is…