Language Therapy and Leadership for Pediatric Clinicians
What would you do if you had no arms? When John Foppe’s parents rushed to the hospital on the day of his birth, they were expecting to deliver a healthy baby girl. Imagine their shock when instead, they delivered a baby boy with no arms, and an abdominal issue that almost cost him his life;…
“Don’t start a sentence with a conjunction!” I can remember hearing that rule repeated over and over again during my elementary school grammar lessons. As an adult, I remember hearing it again when my students rattled off that rule in my therapy room while we were working on complex sentences. But there’s only one problem:…
Tired of wondering how to treat “processing” problems? Do you wish someone would give you a roadmap to show you exactly what to do next? I know I use to feel that way. That’s why I wrote this free e-book for you, The Ultimate Guide to Sentence Structure: The SLP’s Roadmap to Language Comprehension and Expression. If…
When you’re treating language disorders, getting quality sentences from your students can seem impossible. We know they have weak grammar; but when it comes to actually treating the issues…sometimes we’re left drawing a blank. I used to go back to the old, tired goals for working on pronouns and verb tense. I’d work on getting…
We’ve all gotten that dreaded referral for unexplained “language processing” difficulties. Sometimes it can be hard to know where to start. The first challenge is knowing what type of screening procedures you should use when you’re deciding if you should evaluate. Once we’ve evaluated students and they’re on our caseloads we face a different problem:…
Have you ever had a parent or teacher approach you because their child has “processing issues”? Are you constantly questioning your screening procedures, wondering if you’re either wasting time with unnecessary evaluations…or even worse….missing kids who truly are in need of help? If so, you’ll want to check out the video below where I walk…
Every time I ask this question on a public forum, I get a massive response. It seems this is a question that plagues a lot of speech pathologists (and possibly teachers as well). We have the urge to keep going and pushing ourselves. But maybe you feel like you’re barely treading water. Still paying of…
This week I got a great question from one of my readers (paraphrased): “I have seen that a lot of DHH students have made some great progress by early elementary school, and a lot of them have language scores that fall in the average range (with a standard score of at least 85). I’m not…
How do I write IEP goals for language? This is a question asked all the time among groups for SLPs. With the massive laundry lists of language skills we often think we need to address, it can be a daunting task. That’s why earlier this year, I published a 5-post series about how to write…
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…