I have never been a natural “people person.” Back when I was a kid, my mom was seriously concerned about me. There was a time period she actually worried that I wouldn’t make friends, and she was frantically scheduling play dates to get me out of my comfort zone. And then…the awkward adolescent years. Through…
Tag: speech language pathology
Three Secrets to Expanding Sentences and Building Vocabulary (for SLPs)
One of the biggest challenges we face when working with kids with language disorders is getting them to say longer sentences that clearly communicate their ideas. Yet expanding sentences our students say is easier said than done, which is why I created this free e-book for SLPs, The Ultimate Guide to Sentence Structure. In this…
Push-in services: Are they better than a pull-out model?
Do you ever feel like you should be doing more push-in services? Push-in services and co-teaching seem to be the rage these days. Many of us are getting pressured to get in to classrooms rather than pulling kids out; which means leaves us scrambling to figure out how to make it work. Some of this…
Syntactic development in the school-age years
Last on the agenda for our language development series is syntactic development. Many times, when we have students with poor syntactic development; we know they have a poor sense of sentence structure, but aren’t sure which skills are causing problems. The other problem is that we have information on typical syntactic development up through about…
Literacy intervention for SLPs: A counterintuitive approach
Literacy intervention for SLPs treating students with language disorders is a hot topic these days. The problem is that there isn’t a clear consensus about where SLPs should intervene which makes it really hard to figure out what we’re “supposed” to be doing. That’s why today I’m going to share some important research findings that…
Grammar and Spelling Intervention: The Missing Piece
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…
When can you treat language and articulation at the same time?
It seems like being a speech pathologist is kind of like being on a roller coaster. We have some days we’re ready to tackle the trickiest cases and are determined to change the world…but then there are other days we’re limping along just trying to get through the day…wondering if we’re ever going to actually…