Disclaimer: This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Did you know that 1/6 of the world celebrates Chinese New Year? And that it is the world’s biggest human migration as workers travel home to their families? Supposedly, the trains in China are so over-crowded during these traveling days, people will wear diapers for their 24 hour… Read more
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You know those books you just can’t resist…
Disclaimer: This post contains Amazon affiliate links. The books that you buy several copies of and then give to friends when they have babies? The ones that you have your kids read when they start reading. The Paper Bag Princess is one of those books. If you don’t already own it. Buy it. Of… Read more
Co-teaching Social Skills
Last year, my special education teacher and I brainstormed ways to serve our students with multiple needs. Many of these students have reading, writing, math, speech, social skills, and behavior goals. There are not enough hours in the school week to meet these needs. So… being the brilliant and cooperative colleagues that we are, we… Read more
Dynamic Assessment and Response to Intervention
If you think about it, Dynamic Assessments are very similar to Response to Intervention. Both are fluid ways to see if a child makes progress on a skill within a determined period of time. Students that make adequate progress are most likely have typical language learning abilities. Students that make very little progress, regardless of… Read more
Cultural Encounters of the Speech Kind
Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. Just as the confetti of New Year’s Eve is settling down and teachers are pulling out the hearts and roses for February, I am pulling out the red. And dragons. And firecrackers. Why? It’s not only for the obvious reason that 3 out of 4 people in my family… Read more
The end of the world is near!
Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. As you hopefully have heard, Friday will be the End of the world. Since this is also my first day of Winter Break, that pretty much sucks. So there are a few things I must share with you before the End occurs. First, the world’s best holiday cookies. I admit… Read more
Gingerbread Man Under and Over
Chapel Hill Snippets makes the best basic concepts books. I love using them with my Life Skills students, so I decided to return the favor (thank you Ruth!!!). Oh, and you can benefit too I guess! Get this almost free (sorry! I recently found out that I can’t give out Boardmaker pics for free, so… Read more
Literature-Based Speech Therapy
My favorite way to do Speech Therapy is to to make it literature-based. Why? It just makes sense to me! I’ve complied my reasons to consider doing Speech/Language Therapy based on books: 1. End goal of accessing curriculum: My students are eligible for services because their Communication interferes with their education. So my job is… Read more
Social Language Homework
I am not sure when this transition in my profession occurred, (Maybe a reader out there who has been an Speech-Language Pathologist for 20+ years can help answer this question?), but I spend a LOT of time working on social-pragmatic skills with students. And not just students with Autism. And social-pragmatic skills are HARD to… Read more
All Aboard the Polar Express!
Note: Completely new and expanded product! Long, long ago (read: 2000) in a land far, far away (read: New England) my husband and I were on a downtown adventure to the new Border’s bookstore (read: now out of business) when we saw a large crowd. We shoved our way through the people to see what… Read more
Baby, Baby….Gingerbread Baby
Disclaimer: This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Run, run, as fast as you can! You can’t catch me Cuz I’m Super Woman! I can jog in place, do jumping jacks, and run in circles while doing my P-90X now! Quite a change from this summer. And the Holiday season is coming! Don’t believe me?… Read more
Halloween Mad Libs at Speech Club
Disclaimer: This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Every single school day at 8:45 I wait to receive my “Speech Club” students. These are my older (3rd-5th grade) articulation students who need a small daily dose of articulation practice. The teacher agreed last year to let me give this a try, taking kids before the school… Read more
