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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Speech Slime - The Speech Bubble
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I LOVE getting messy in speech! A mess means we did something hands on and SUPER FUN. What could be more fun then glitter slime to work on following directions, describing, sequencing, and more! You can find the original recipe HERE, but are the materials and recipe for a quicker reference. It is su...
How To Avoid The Push of Push-In Speech Therapy - The Speech Bubble
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There's a lot of chatter about push-in speech therapy these days. If you're like me, I'm sure you're wondering what pushing-in means for you as an SLP.
