Have you ever had a student with almost no words but you knew that they had a lot to say? These are the students that fascinate me the most. I ... Read more
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eMerging SLPs: Merging into the self-contained classroom
As far as speech pathology jobs go, I have a tough population. I wear Kevlar sleeves as part of my uniform. I have developed wicked fast reflexes. I ... Read more
Work Systems for Early Learners
I've been having a rough year with some of my early language learners in a self-contained classroom. Keeping them engaged for a 30 minute speech ... Read more
Engaging Early Language Learners
If there is one thing I have learned, it is that my earliest language learners will NOT just sit nicely at a table or at circle time and say their ... Read more
Circle Time in a Minimally Verbal Classroom #3
All long time ago and very, very far away from my current location, I got my first job as an SLP. In addition to many students in the general ... Read more
Circle Time in a Minimially Verbal Classroom #2
Circle time! Last month, I went through how I do circle time in my Kindergarten self-contained classroom. The students there are minimally or ... Read more
Circle Time in a Minimally Verbal Classroom #1
Circle time is my baby. When I started my current job in 2002 and had one class of highly-impacted and self-contained students, I knew I wanted to ... Read more
Alphabet Based Concepts for Learning Language
Three days each week I merge into my self-contained classes. Both of these classes use a "Letter of the Week" model to help their students learn the ... Read more
More singing!
If you thought my six File Folder Songs would keep me satisfied for a while, then you were terribly wrong. Within days of completing those songs, I ... Read more
File Folder Activities for Early Language Learners
Our entire state has developed a new "teacher evaluation system" which requires countless hours of determining student-driven and personal ... Read more
Language Learning Through Songs
At a very young age my lyric-writing skills began. I would write song after song after song on sheets of paper and then store them in my ... Read more
Expanding Sentences and Vocabulary
I love my expanding non-traditional Picture Exchange therapy! I love it when I get to work with my life skills kiddos on adding descriptive words to ... Read more
Super Sack!
Alternately known as the: Awesome Bag Beautiful Bag Cute Sack Darn-good Bag Excellent Sack Bag of Fun Bag of Goodness Bag of ... 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 ... Read more