Initial Assessment: How Does it Drive Instruction Prior to seeing a new student/client, we read through their records to develop a picture and to make a...
Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day My mother is from Kinvara, County Galway, Ireland. As children, we would go there for summers to live...
Lesson Plans for Speech Pathologists: More Information for Beginning Sessions When we write a lesson plan we are integrating information from what we know about a client and what...
How to Work with Mixed Groups in Speech and Language Therapy The wonderful part of being a speech and language pathologist is that every day brings new adventures! I am...
Why We Need to Teach Reading Using an Integrative Approach There is an inter-relationship between, reading, spelling, handwriting and written expression that needs to be honored when we think...
Phonological Awareness, Phonemic Awareness, Phonics What is the Difference? Phonological Awareness, Phonemic Awareness, and Phonics are all terms that sound alike but are very distinct. Often the image...
Homework: A connection from the therapy room to home but what should it be? Home programming is an important part of speech and language therapy so that what the child is learning in...
Top 10 reasons you should be a speech and language pathologist January 1979 I started my Clinical Fellowship Year as a speech and language pathologist. I have NEVER regretted the...
Simple Behavioral Supports That Help All Students I find that if I set up routines that give clear expectations and goals for a session that the...
Executive Dysfunction : Who is this child? Helping the teacher and speech pathologist What is Executive Functioning? Johnny races into the room and you can nearly feel the wind as he...