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Latest Speech Therapy Blogs & Tips
How to be a Speech-Language Pathologist: A Day in the Life
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Literacy-Based Intervention for Speech-Language Therapy
I am a book hoarder. It started out innocently enough. I would purchase a book, relish in each page and place the prized possession on a shelf. The spines of the books, with the titles perfectly exhibited, served as my trophy display. ...
Free Yourself from Challenges in Life Skills Classrooms
For those of us who have or have had the opportunity to work in a Life Skills classroom we know that it is the most rewarding and most challenging experience. The problem is that this situation is almost always heavily weighted towards the challenging end of the...
Autism, Wretches & Jabberers, oh my!
How timely, that at the beginning of the school year, I was reminded of why I choose to work as a speech-language pathologist. My reminder arrived just a few days ago in a simple and beautiful way while I worked with a child with autism and his family. I was able to...
2 Languages, Many Voices: Latinos In The U.S.
During the month of October, NPR ran a special series called "2 Languages, Many Voices: Latinos In The U.S." Guests included well-known authors and performers, including Rita Moreno and John Leguizamo. The program offers a variety of perspectives on...
Ah, the month of MAY!!
With IEP meetings, last minute evaluations, holidays, fieldtrips, and statewide testing, great therapy planning often gets pushed to the lower rung of importance. Rather than lament over the difficulty to provide services, EMBRACE THE CHAOS! The month of May offers...
Surviving your clinical fellowship year in the schools
For many SLPs, the CF year can be a rough one. After surviving my first few months as a CF in the schools, I thought it might be helpful to share some of my observations and experiences. Things I wish I had known: Save your materials from graduate school! The...
Bilingual Education: Students with Special Needs
Question: We have a Life Skills class at in one of our elementary schools with both English and Spanish speakers (6-7 to 2 ratio). We have several parents of English speakers who are upset because their kids will be exposed to two languages and may consequently be...
Bilingual Questions Regarding The Woodcock-Munoz
The WMLS manual on page 5 states that the WMLS is a test of the aspects of language that are acquired in formal schooling. In the WMLS manual, it seems to me that the English WMLS is standardized on monolingual English speakers and can be used to identify gifted...
Why use story books in therapy intervention?
Here is a pretty neat list of reasons why literacy-based intervention is a great way to go when working with children with speech and language impairments. Storybooks – provide structure for addressing goals – can be used with all ages and cultures – can be used to...
Bilingual Speech Therapists Can Be an Island
At Bilinguistics, we work with Spanish speaking children almost exclusively. Having said that, bilingual speech pathologists make up only 3% of the field, with the rest being monolingual English. We’re on this bilingual island, but we have important information that...
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This was such a concrete explanation of how important language specific constraints are…I’m grateful for this excellent resource, and will be sharing it with my grad school peers.
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