Jenna, one of the SLP blog gurus, at Speech Room News started a new monthly link up called: Love it and List it. This months feature is Games I love. The challenge is to list 5 games you love. I ended up making 3 lists. (It’s part of my hoarding complex) For the […]
Video modeling: Editing out cues
Video modeling is an effective tool for strengthening new behaviors, teaching new skills and working on social skills. In general, video modeling should show your client what you WANT them to do. We want them to have as many positive models of the expected behavior as possible. If you want to work on Michelle Garcia […]
Behavior: When consequences don’t work the way we think they will.
When I first starting practicing, I worked with a child who used to bolt. About a week before my wedding, he bolted out the front door of the clinic in to a busy parking lot. I ran after him SO worried that he would be injured or hit by a car. He ended up falling […]
Speech therapy in the Dark
Speech Therapy in the Dark. This could be a post about your first year as a Speech Language Pathologist. It could be about how sometimes you feel like you don’t know anything. It could talk about how the internet and the speech pathology blogging community is helping to change that. Now if you have […]
Four weird ways to motivate your clients when you have abso-flippin’ nothin’ left in your speech cabinets
The clinic I work at is moving this week and the movers came early and took my desk, table, chairs and most of my supplies. So in honor of my lack of materials, I have another list: Four weird ways to motivate your clients when you have abso-flippin’ nothin’ left in your speech cabinets 1. […]
Interactive Flashcards and Fill in the Blank Cards
While I was working on my post about echolalia and fill in the blank activities, I started thinking about a new product. I call it an Interactive Flash card, because the student can move the pictures in order to answer the questions. It contains different fill in the blank activities for 24 different vocabulary items: […]
Autism: Echolalia and Fill in the Blanks
Echolalia refers to when a child repeats a vocalization or something that has just been said. Echolalia can be immediate or it can be delayed. An example of Immediate Echolalia would be: Me: Do you want to eat a sandwich? Tell me yes or no. Client: Yes or No. Delayed echolalia happens when […]
Lazy Speech Therapist Virtual Friday Hints
I wrote on Facebook awhile ago that Virtual Speech therapy fridays are the best because it is “Business on top and a pajama party on the bottom.” Today I’ve been super lazy and haven’t even changed out of my comfy red polka-dotted bottoms. In honor of my laziness today, here are 6 fun, easy and […]
St. Patrick’s Day Festivities
My son’s daycare celebrates St. Patrick’s Day by having Sally the Leprechaun visit every month. Sally is a very naughty leprechaun. The other day she stole someone’s socks at nap time because she loves the color green. Since then, my guy has been wearing all green to daycare. I guess he’d just prefer to go […]
Praxis: It’s not just a test you take after school
A few months ago I went out after dinner with an occupational therapist friend of mine. We spent the night catching up and geeking out on therapy techniques. She was describing a class she had taken on Ideational Praxis. I found an article online called, “A Theoretical Model of Ideation in Praxis” by Theresa May-Benson, […]
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