Language Therapy and Leadership for Pediatric Clinicians
Today, I was gearing up to write rant about why I don’t provide a ton of materials for executive functioning in my training programs like the School of Clinical Leadership. Then I thought to myself, “I wonder what hot pile of garbage ChatGPT would give me if I asked it where to find EF lesson plans.” Full disclosure, I do…
You’ve been told that social skills interventions are ableist. But you’ve also been told that we need to prepare students for real-world expectations. You have teachers and administrators coming to you with concerns about behavior, participation, and social interaction, and you’re expected to address it. Then you’re told to make your intervention more “functional.” To…
If you’re a school SLP or other related service provider who can’t seem to address all the skills your students need in your therapy sessions…guess what? You’ll never be able to do it. You aren’t losing your mind…this is really impossible. And if your brain is tempted to say, “The SYSTEM is too broken to solve…
Writing goals for executive functioning can be challenging because it’s very hard to quantify. Additionally, because executive functioning impacts almost every functional skill we engage in, almost every goal on any IEP or therapy plan is technically an executive functioning goal. When we’re focusing on other areas such as writing, reading, math, language, or other…
I offer a free training on executive functioning where I talk about the common mistakes school teams make. In this training define what executive functioning is, and some big picture ideas about how to support kids effectively. The five skills I discuss in that intervention framework are: 1. Self-talk2. Time-perception3. Future Pacing4. Episodic Memory5. Encoding Today,…
I wanted to share this episode from the De Facto Leader’s podcast to make it accessible on the blog since this is such as common question for my readers and listeners. When kids need support with language, reading/writing, and executive functioning, they often have multiple diagnoses. This makes both treatment planning, diagnosis, and determining eligibility…
As a professional field, we’re getting stuck in old ways of thinking when it comes to designing services for students experiencing executive dysfunction. When we think of “therapy” the first thing that comes to mind is a clinician sitting in a chair saying things like, “And how does that make you feel?” or a clinician…
I’ve gotten requests from my School of Clinical Leadership members for resources that can be share with families and other professionals; and since coaching and training others is such an important part of effective executive functioning intervention, I decided to compile a list of content I’ve created on this topic. All of these things on…
Recently in some clinical discussion groups, I’ve seen therapists asking for lesson plans to build perspective taking and situational awareness. This makes me feel optimistic, because it shows that they understand that social skills issues are related to executive functioning. But “activities” for improving perspective taking will not come from a set of materials you…
One of the most common questions I get from clinicians who work with school-age kids is about scope and sequence of therapy. “How do I make time to address all these skills my students need?” “How can I help students generalize skills from one setting to another?” “How can I help the other people on…