How to Pick Vocabulary Words: What words?! Whenever I had a student who needed to work on vocabulary My mind started racing, ‘What words do I pick?’ ‘What are the right words to use?‘. When writing a goal we need to know what we are tracking. You cannot simply write with ‘classroom vocabulary’, that ain’t gonna fly if your case…
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You’ve determined your student needs to develop their vocabulary as part of their IEP ( if you’re still working on that part then check out my post, How to Pick Vocabulary Words for Speech Therapy ) but as you sit and start to write the goal a question pops up…’How do I track this?!’ Vocabulary is both concrete and abstract….
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Teaching Vocabulary in Speech Therapy can be one of the trickiest areas to work on, mainly because there is no clear path for it. The best way we have seen however is to target address building vocabulary is to focus on using strategies and meaningful repetition. Students need to comprehend at least 90-95% of words in a text to comprehend…
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In ADHD for SLPs (Speech-Language Pathologists) Many agree that there is nothing greater about our field than its amazing diversity. I have been told by my mentors several times, “you will never work with two clients who are the same.” It is inherently clear that each person is their own unique individual. The various speech and language disorders are just…
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When it comes to speech therapy, I’m mainly and language kinda gal. Artic and phono are ok, but once you toss /r/ into the mix…😬. There are of tricks and techniques out there but today I am sharing some Quick tricks for R (/r/) methods found more consistent success with my students. Just a reminder, before starting any articulation or…
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Assessments Are NOT Equal. For most Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs), completing an evaluation is a smaller part of the job. According to the 2020 ASHA Schools Survey, SLPs across all facility settings reported an average of 4 hours per week on diagnostic activities. So, What are diagnostic activities? This could include formal evaluations, informal evaluations, scoring evaluations, analysis of evaluation, screening,…
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I'm Sensing...Something...I think - The Speech Bubble
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I recently attended the ISHA conference and had the opportunity to attend a session about Sensory Processing Disorders ( SPD ) focusing on Sensory Integration. It was probably one of the most informative and engaging sessions I had every attended. This year, for me anyway, there was a drastic increa...
Using Word Clouds for Describing: Tagxedo Tutorial - The Speech Bubble
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I have a lot of students working on describing. I use the EET ( EET post ) in my room and is fantastic. But sometimes using the same organizer or writing a describing sentence is just not that engaging. I had heard about people using Word Clouds for various classroom activities but nothing for speec...
