I LOVE using manipulatives in therapy. Most of my clients are more motivated to participate in activities when there are objects involved. If I have a client who is struggling with a language concepts, I may move back towards objects-or pair objects with worksheets/picture cards to see if it improves their comprehension. There are commercially […]
BUILDING effective communicators: the one who makes you play Mad Libs®
The one who makes you play Mad Libs®: This is the client who really struggles with vocabulary. Their stories are difficult to understand because they are using the wrong vocabulary OR because they are using too many non specific words. “So then I told him that I wasn’t going to be okay with him […]
Research Tuesday: Personal Narratives and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders
I’m finally joining up for Research Tuesday. You can head over to Gray Matter Therapy on Thursday to find out what other speech bloggers have been writing about. This is a great way to stay up on research based interventions without having to spend your time scouring through a variety of different publications. Since […]
BUILDING effective communicators: the one who requires a flow chart to comprehend:
The one who requires a flow chart to comprehend: This client is able to share different information but doesn’t know how to sequence it. They start in the middle of the story and jump around trying to give me all of the information. I have to ask more questions to figure out what they […]
BUILDING effective communicators: The one who gives a monologue
The one who gives a monologue: This client has the opposite problem of the one who needs to be interrogated. If I ask anything about their weekend they start at 4 pm on Friday and give me a blow by blow account of every single thing they did. “I got on the bus and […]
BUILDING effective Communicators: Personal Narratives and the one who needs to be interrogated
One of the things that many of my clients struggle with is being able to share a simple story or information about what they have done during their day. If I ask them what they did or what they ate for lunch, they simply shrug and say, “I don’t know.” These same clients struggle […]
What’s New at Speech2u: April/May edition
Once a month, I take some time to share what I’ve been working on. I completely forgot to post last month, so I’m catching you up on the last two months of products. Nothing Minimal about these Pairs: Fronting/Backing: This is the third product my minimal pairs products. This one focuses on fronting/backing. It includes 55 […]
Mama-on-Days: My Summer Bucket List and a FREEBIE
This is it. It’s our last summer before the big K-KINDERGARTEN. I’ll probably blink and he will be graduating from high school. I’m alternating between being excited AND trying to figure out how old I would be, if I tried for just one more, when that child graduated. The Biscuit is at the age where […]
The Eye contact debate
Should you encourage eye contact for children on the autism spectrum? When I first started working as a speech language pathologist, it was common to see goals such as “Johnny will sustain eye contact for 5 minutes” or “Johnny will maintain eye contact for 90% of a conversation.” This is a great goal if your […]
Mama-on-days: The curse of being a “time optimist”
Did I ever tell you that I gave my son a standardized assessment once? Just to check out his scores. I’m happy to report that he was around 113 or so. Not in the gifted range, just average for language skills. There is a question on one subtest which asked what you would say to […]
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