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…
Tag: Tier 2 Vocabulary
Five Deceptively Simple Techniques to Build Vocabulary
There isn’t a week that goes by that I don’t hear an SLP out there cry in frustration: “I’m NOT a speech teacher! I’m a freaking SLP!” And for good reason. No one likes to be mislabeled or misunderstood, and when it comes down to it, a lot of people don’t REALLY understand what we…
Are you an SLP working on vocabulary? If so, read this first.
Did you know that the average school-aged student learns between 3000 to 5000 words per year? That means they learn eight to 12 words per day (Biemiller & Boote, 2006). Most children are like little sponges soaking up new information. Unfortunately this isn’t the case for students with language disorders who have limited word knowledge. Students…