Language Therapy and Leadership for Pediatric Clinicians
No discussion of language development would be complete without a mention of morphology; which is why today we’re going to dive in to morphological development in the school age years. Morphology is the study of the internal structure of words and how they’re formed, including parts such as roots, bases and affixes (Nippold, 2016). There’s…
For anyone working with the school age population, navigating Common Core Standards for students in special education can be a nightmare. Most of us know our students are far behind where they should be, especially when it comes to these early developing language skills that typically emerge before students come to school. But we can’t talk…
If you’re a professional working on building language skills; you’ve most likely taken a language development course at some point in your training. As an SLP, knowing norms for language development is the foundation for understanding how to diagnose and treat problems in this area. Yet I regularly hear discussions in professional forums debating what…