Language Therapy and Leadership for Pediatric Clinicians
The other day in my Language Therapy Advance Foundations program, some of my students asked how they should prioritize when they have students who need help with both vocabulary and grammar. They were wondering which to target first. My answer was this: Why not BOTH at once? We often think of language skills, like semantic…
There’s a lot of debate as to whether or not SLPs should even be addressing parts of speech in language therapy. Some say we shouldn’t do it because it’s not functional. Some say it’s the teacher’s job and we don’t have time for it. Other say it’s super important because no one’s taking the time…
One of the most comment objections I get when I talk about spelling/grammar intervention is, “But are my students ready for this?” Specifically, I get this question a lot when it comes to building morphological awareness for the purpose of building reading and spelling skills. Working on morphology, such as studying prefixes and suffixes, used…
As an SLP, you probably know you should be doing some type of grammar intervention in your therapy. It’s clear our students have poor grammatical skills impacting their reading and writing performance, but many of us feel we lack a good road map for solving this issue. So what do we end up doing? Well…I…