Archive for April, 2009
Making Speech and Language Therapy a Visual Activity
Do you want a concrete way to increase your clients’ results? A way to help them retain what they have learned? If so, then consider this… The articles I have read indicate that in the general population about 65% of people are visual learners, compared to only 20-30% who are auditory learners, with the rest [...]
Categories- A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place
Do you want a way to help your clients expand their vocabularies and improve their describing skills? If so, work on categorization. Organization When things are organized, you can find what you need quickly and know where things go once you’ve obtained them. The same is true for linguistic organization. Understanding how things go together [...]
Same vs. Different- Easy to make materials for language therapy
A foundation for many goals is an established concept of “same” vs. “different”. It is nearly impossible to work on concepts such as colors, shapes, or comparatives without the child having first learned “same” and “different”. If you find yourself working on these, here is an easy way to make some picture cards. Making [...]
Home Programs That Actually Get Done- 8 keys that make ALL the difference
Home programs…groan. You have to make one. The parent has to fit it into an already busy schedule (and face the guilt that comes with not doing it). Trust me, I know. I’ve now been on both sides of this one. As a parent with a child in two different therapies, I found that we [...]