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The term ‘summer slide’ refers to the decrease in skills related to the summer months when school is no longer in session. Typically, it is in reference to academic skills’ however, many of us see it in speech too. How many times have you had a student or more make
As we all know, personal relationships are important and add quality to our life. While we have the family we are born into, friends become the family that we choose for ourselves. Friends add a HUGE amount of quality to our life. A couple of years ago, one of my
Let’s be real for a moment. If you look at the BIG companies that sell us resources to target speech and language skills, you won’t find much geared towards our secondary age students. In fact, recently I compiled a list of speech and language games that are commercially out there
The use of centers is not a new idea and it is completely easy to incorporate into your speech schedule! Using a centers approach is an easy way for students to successfully practice their speech and language skills while staying motivated and practicing additional skill sets (your Occupational Therapist will
The gold standard that we all try to meet during each session of articulation therapy is no less than 100 trials (preferably more). Sometimes, it is not so easy to get those trials in due to larger groups, uncooperative students, behavior concerns, etc.. I have found that as long as
Ten Reasons to Use Play-doh in Speech Therapy I don’t know about you but I know that I am often told ‘I wish I could just play with kids all day with games and Play-doh’. Are you? When I have explained that Play-doh and games are just tools to keep
I do not know about anyone else but I am ready for THE END. I mean, I’m ready for the end of the school year. This has been a tough year. In all my years, I have never had so many out of state students come in or as many
You may have noticed that I have not blogged for some time. This Winter season has been full of family trips, family illness, and updated materials! Since it has been a crazy time for my family, it has limited my therapy planning time. Work is one place that I do
You might have expected me to bring up some old faithful Halloween books. You know the ones (one had a little old lady that has an issue with eating things she shouldn’t, another is an old lady that isn’t afraid of anything, and the third has a kind witch that likes to
Holidays are a great time to score some wonderful deals on toys that encourage speech and language skills and family time! Christmas. Hanukkah. Kwanzaa. It really doesn’t matter which holiday you celebrate in Winter, we all know that right after Thanksgiving there is that mad dash to the stores to
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