Language Therapy and Leadership for Pediatric Clinicians
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.
Literacy intervention for SLPs treating students with language disorders is a hot topic these days. The problem is that there isn’t a clear consensus about where SLPs should intervene which makes it really hard to figure out what we’re “supposed” to be doing. That’s why today I’m going to share some important research findings that…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
Even though I don’t like to admit it, there were times throughout the early years of career that I’ve felt totally confused about my role in language and literacy. If you have experienced this too, you know that feeling this way can make it really hard to do your job. It wasn’t until I went back…