Language Therapy and Leadership for Pediatric Clinicians
This is the third installment in Syntax Goals for Speech Therapy, where I’ll be giving you some sentence structure goals for speech therapy. In the first part, I shared a “base goal” for syntax that defines the “big idea” and ensures that you have a goal you can measure. In the second article, I talked…
Before we dive in to our second installment of Syntax Goals for Speech Therapy and add to that IEP goal bank I started for you, I’ve got a question for you. How many times have you gotten the dreaded language processing referral? It might go a little something like this: Teacher: My student sounds funny….
If you struggle to write syntax goals for speech therapy, what you’re about to read will make your life substantially easier (spoiler alert: it involves a mini-IEP goal bank). Do you have students who can’t get their ideas across and don’t “sound right” when they’re talking? Maybe something sounds “off”, disorganized, or incomplete…but you can’t…
In my last post about SLP survival, I promised you some school SLP scheduling email scripts, so today I’m delivering on my promise. These deceptively simple templates for emailing teachers are what I’ve used to communicate with teachers at the beginning of the school year, so I can set my schedule with as little stress…
As SLPs, we sometimes struggle to figure out what types of spelling activities we should be doing in speech therapy. Sometimes we wonder if we should be thinking about spelling words at all. I mean, shouldn’t the teachers be the ones doing all the spelling activities and picking out the spelling words? Well…yes they should….
Having a set of “staple” grammar worksheets for your therapy can be a huge time-saver. Most of us have them, and can probably think of a couple times these handy grammar worksheets or card decks have saved us when we’ve had to resort to last minute planning when we’ve gotten swamped. These appeal to a…
In my most recent post, I promised you some easy-to-use tools for targeting prefixes and suffixes in speech therapy. If you read this research review, you know how important this skill is for our students because its a predictor of reading performance (Apel & Henbest, 2016). I showed you an evidence-based protocol here, but now…
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…
Have you thought about morphological awareness lately? If you have students with weak vocabulary, grammar, and spelling skills, it might be time to start. It can be hard to figure out how soon we should start teaching students about morphology and building their morphological awareness skills. In this article, I’m going to summarize a study…
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…