There isn’t a week that goes by that the typical pediatric SLP doesn’t wonder how to fix their students’ reading comprehension problems. The problem is that most people are doing this backwards for kids with language processing issues. Many are skimming over some of the basic foundational skills our students need to be good readers…
Category: The SLP’s Role in Literacy
It seems like everywhere we turn, we can’t get a straight answer about what SLPs are supposed to be doing to support our students literacy skills. We’re told to, “Use our professional judgement” to figure it out, which isn’t very helpful because it gives us no sense of direction. The articles in this section will help solve that problem.
Why “reading comprehension” strategies aren’t helping your students with language disorders.
There’s no question that language processing and reading comprehension go hand-in-hand. We know that our vocabulary skills have a huge impact on our ability to understand what we’re reading… Yet for students with language impairments, the reading strategies they’re learning in school could be missing the mark. This was definitely the case with my student…
Stop working on main idea and supporting details.
Do you spend loads of time working on “main idea” and “supporting details”? We all know these skills are important. I mean, stating the main idea and supporting details is expected according to the Common Core Standards. Students have to be able to do it to succeed in school. After all, getting the “gist” and…
Students aren’t making inferences? This could be why.
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…
The Listening Comprehension Test-2: A product review for speech-language pathologists
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…
Three Spelling Activities You Should Stop Now
As SLPs, we sometimes struggle to figure out what types of spelling activities we should be doing in speech therapy. Sometimes we wonder if we should be thinking about spelling words at all. I mean, shouldn’t the teachers be the ones doing all the spelling activities and picking out the spelling words? Well…yes they should….