Language Therapy and Leadership for Pediatric Clinicians
I talk a lot about how important it is to emphasize morphology & orthography. So naturally, people want to know how to write goals for these things. But in some cases, I don’t recommend writing a goal for it. In this Q & A video about language therapy goals, I explain why: To learn more…
As an SLP I spend a fair amount of time doing research on strategies for building language and literacy skills. But back when I was in elementary school, I didn’t catch on to reading right away. I had what I like to refer to as the Catholic school version of Response to Intervention. I still…
Building spelling skills can have a huge impact on overall language processing and vocabulary growth, which falls perfectly in line with your expertise. Vocabulary is one of the biggest predictors of success or failure in school because of it’s impact on overall comprehension and language processing (Nagy & Scott, 2000; Nippold, 2017). But most people…
I routinely get questions from speech-language pathologists about what’s “age-appropriate” when it comes to vocabulary, semantic, or morphological skills. The other day, an SLP asked me about how to determine which prefixes and suffixes to target in language therapy when working on morphological awareness skills. That’s why I wanted to hop on a quick video…
The members of the Effective Language Therapy for SLPs group recently took a vote about what topics they wanted to study, and one topic that came up was morphology and it’s impact on spelling and language processing. No one seems to doubt that morphology is important. What isn’t clear is WHEN and HOW we should…