Language Therapy and Leadership for Pediatric Clinicians
One of the biggest challenges for students with language disorders is language structure; so SLPs need to teach them the rules of grammar and word order. In these articles, SLPs will learn easy-to-implement ideas and activities for their therapy focused on building morphology and syntactic awareness.
One of the most comment objections I get when I talk about spelling/grammar intervention is, “But are my students ready for this?” Specifically, I get this question a lot when it comes to building morphological awareness for the purpose of building reading and spelling skills. Working on morphology, such as studying prefixes and suffixes, used…
Have you thought about morphological awareness lately? If you have students with weak vocabulary, grammar, and spelling skills, it might be time to start. It can be hard to figure out how soon we should start teaching students about morphology and building their morphological awareness skills. In this article, I’m going to summarize a study…
As an SLP, you probably know you should be doing some type of grammar intervention in your therapy. It’s clear our students have poor grammatical skills impacting their reading and writing performance, but many of us feel we lack a good road map for solving this issue. So what do we end up doing? Well…I…
Semantic feature analysis is a vocabulary-building strategy that builds storage and retrieval, boosts metalinguistic awareness skills, and teaches students to define and describe words in a way that’s EFFICIENT, and EFFECTIVE. Many of us know how to do semantic feature analysis for nouns, but we know that our students need to know verbs and adjectives…
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gone through my students’ writing samples and wanted to pull my hair out. Sometimes it’s such a disaster I don’t even know where to start. The grammar is a mess. Spelling errors are everywhere. And their writing is filled with words like “stuff”, “things”, or my personal…
Generalization is like the Holy Grail for speech therapists. All we really want in life is for what we do in the therapy room to transfer to other settings. Yet for many of us, generalization is like a mirage that continues to elude us and our students. Part of the problem is that therapy can be…