Language Therapy and Leadership for Pediatric Clinicians
What follows is an in-depth review of The Listening Comprehension Test-2 (Bowers, Huisingh, & LoGuidice, 2006); a staple evaluation tool if you’re an SLP treating school age language disorders. There have been many cases when this assessment has saved some of my students from falling through the cracks; and the case I’m about to describe…
Welcome to the final installment of the Syntax Goals for Speech Therapy series, where I break down how to write the best speech therapy goals for syntax that focus on high-priority skills to build listening and reading comprehension. In this article series, I’ve broken down four challenging sentence types and how to target them (described…
Welcome to the fourth installment of the Syntax Goals for Speech Therapy, where I’m breaking down difficult sentence types so you can walk away with an IEP goal bank for syntax and a set of solid syntax activities for speech therapy. The inspiration to write this series came from the constant questions I get about…
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…