My name is Maureen and I used to write all of my goals for 80% accuracy. It was routine. A habit, and I couldn’t stop! It was so automatic when I reached the accuracy portion of writing a goal. 🤦🏼♀️ Why did I do it? Well, that’s what they told me to do in grad school. It was as simple…
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This is the second post in our series on why SLPs target certain subjects. If you missed the first post on verbs, just click here -> Why are you working on… Verbs Categorizing is the foundation so many skills that, to others, may not be related. Categorizing, the grouping of objects, words, or actions based on similar traits, is used…
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So often in the schools the perception of what an SLP does gets a bit skewed. When it comes to things like artic and fluency, it’s kind of a no brainer. As soon as language gets involved though, the SLP seems to not come to peoples minds as quickly and don’t even get me started on pragmatics. Usually, it’s the…
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So much of communication goes beyond words and what is spoken. It is all about how you say it, am I right? Body posture, facial expressions, reactions, all of those nonverbal components of language play a HUGE roll in the overall message. I don’t know about you, but all those unspoken underpinnings of language really trip up my kids. It’s…
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AAC can be scary to a lot of people. Well, not scary-scary but just something unfamiliar that makes them reeeally nervous. Especially those people who don’t spend a lot of time with our kids, but still interact with them. So naturally, they shy away from it or interact very little with students who use AAC. They aren’t being rude they…
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Behaviors? I do speech. What behaviors could possible happen in speech? They didn’t say anything about behaviors in grad school! Yet, there I was, second year in my school sitting under my table attempting to coax a student out with promises of playdoh, games, and stickers. I probably would have given this kid my next paycheck to come out. Did…
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