Language Therapy and Leadership for Pediatric Clinicians
We’ve all experienced the feeling of wanting to pull our hair out after trying to interpret reports, or figuring out how to collect data for language therapy. These articles will simply this process so you can stop hiding behind the clipboard trying to take notes, and instead be present for your students.
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…
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…
Not a year goes by that I don’t see an inferencing goal for a student with language issues. It reminds me of a former student of mine, “John” (which I told you about in this last article) was no different. John was the “lazy and unmotivated” student who turned in sloppy written work with incomplete answers…
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…