The ability to understand multiple meaning words is important for children to process language, humor and to have a robust vocabulary. Does anyone else feel overwhelmed when trying to choose the vocabulary to teach? How many words should we be teaching and when should we stop this type of instruction? What is a good end […]
Happy National Bubbles Week: Activities and Products
Today I want to celebrate bubbles! I love crazy holidays or themed days. My favorite is International Talk Like a Pirate day (of course, right?) When I was working with middle and high school students, it was fun to talk about what the themed day as an ice breaker or to check for carryover of […]
Teaching Time Concepts in Speech Therapy
I’ve been thinking about WH questions and ways to break down these questions to target within therapy. As I was working on my post about WHEN questions, I started thinking about how embedded time concepts are within this question. If students don’t have a good understanding of time, it will be difficult for them to […]
Teaching WHEN questions in Speech Therapy
I’ve spent the last few months talking about how I teach WH questions in therapy. Teaching when questions is a little more tricky to teach because they are more abstract. When questions are generally answered by a time word or a reason. Ex. When do you go to bed? (7 pm or when I am […]
Communicating Evaluation Results: How I Changed My Approach
I want to share a personal story with you that has shaped how I am communicating with families. 2016 was a rough year for my family. The Tale of Two Doctors At the end of 2015, my husband had a routine physical which showed high levels of PSA, which is a potential indicator of prostate […]
Perspective Taking and Gift Giving
Are your students able to think about other people’s perspectives when thinking about presents at the holidays? This is a hard skill for a lot of neurotypical adults such as my husband. One year, he bought me a child sized Tinkerbell towel at Target. First of all, I am not a one of those fortunate child […]
Boosting Bilingual Environments for Young Children: A review
When I was in school, we did not talk a lot about bilingualism beyond assessing articulation and the importance of language differences vs. language disorders. When I was in school, I was told that if you had a child who was language delayed in a bilingual home, the parents should pick one primary language. There has […]
Halloween Speech Therapy Apps
A few years ago I wrote about my favorite Halloween speech therapy apps. I’m not using my iPad as much in therapy anymore, but there are still some really fun apps out there to use in therapy. Millie’s Books of Tricks and Treats Volumes 1 and 2: Megapops LLC […]
Halloween Speech Therapy Books
Halloween books are so much fun to bring into therapy. Over the years I’ve collected quite a few different Halloween books, and wanted to share some of my favorite books with you and how I use them in therapy. This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. Affiliate programs pay a small percentage of a sale […]
Teaching WHERE questions
Where questions are some of my favorite questions to teach. There are a lot of fun activities for working on WHERE questions. Plus I think they are pretty easy to tackle in therapy. I want them to be able to talk about where they were, what they want to do and also where objects are […]
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