Hi everyone, Here are some online materials that can be incorporated into therapy. The kids love getting on the computer, and it can be a nice change of pace for us too! • Storyplace.org is an online library of animated English and Spanish stories. The animations and dialogue are fun for the kids, and pages can be navigated at your
Hey everyone, Here is a really great site for finding IPA symbols in all languages. You can cut and paste them easily into other documents. http://ipa.typeit.org/full/
As we face a flurry of evaluations in these last few months of school, many of us are going to find ourselves asking the same questions over and over, including that old favorite, “Frog, Where Are You?” Mercer Mayer’s wordless picture books are now part of most clinicians’ tried and true language sample collection process, thanks in part to SALT software.
As SLPs, we often work with children who have been diagnosed with ADHD. The following article from The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), a research branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, explains the most recent research regarding parenting programs for preschool parents and their efficacy in managing the condition. Let us continue to put
Inconsistent Speech Disorder accounts for 10% of children with Speech Sound Disorders (Broomfield & Dodd, 2004). How can we differentiate between Childhood Apraxia of Speech and Inconsistent Speech Disorder? See the attached table from the book “Interventions for Speech Sound Disorders in Children” by Williams, McLeod, and McCauley for the characteristics of each. https://bilinguistics.box.com/s/bb79bf70a27a26351026
Need some ideas for generalizing speech therapy goals to the classroom? The busy spring semester is a great time to think about how to get carryover of your students’ progress in the therapy setting into their classroom and home environments. Many teachers want their students to remain in their classrooms during state testing periods, which gives us as SLPs a
Hi all! Pediastaff has put together additions to a site for sharing therapy resources that are grouped on “pin boards.” See: http://pinterest.com/search/?q=pediastaff. They have topics such as language, phonology, fluency, and articulation. You can add your own great therapy ideas or download ideas that others are contributing. We are redoing an activity wall in our waiting room and thought that using
Bilinguistics is looking forward to participating once again in this year’s TSHA Convention in San Antonio, March 8-10 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center. This year we are excited to be giving 6 presentations! Also, make sure to stop by our booth where we’ll be featuring our two newest products: The SMILE for Young Children Program and the Bilingual Articulation
Research suggests that listening to target forms of sentence structures and imitating them in drills is not very effective in order to increase children’s sentence structure in conversation. This resource provides some good ideas for improving sentence structure through meaningful activities and interactive scaffolding. https://bilinguistics.box.com/s/66x8h2qjgo1e0vdjt4c2
When we talk about cueing, what does minimum/moderate/maximum mean exactly? Our team put together a quick description of the levels of cueing so we could all be on the same page. Please see the attached and feel free to respond with your thoughts! https://bilinguistics.box.com/s/phkkhv1tszvb20imomol
