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Substance Abuse at the Workplace: How to Help Your Coworker

Substance Abuse at the Workplace: How to Help Your Coworker

May 17, 2017

They say that hindsight is 20/20.  Looking back at my coworker’s descent into substance abuse, I can now see the situation clearly.   Coming to work late or not at all, not picking up students,  excuses that didn’t make any sense, the cognitive decline — all the signs were clearly there, yet I failed to see them.  Worse yet, I failed… Read More

Filed Under: Miscellaneous, SLP, Uncategorized

Using AAC with Adolescents: Tips for Success!

Using AAC with Adolescents: Tips for Success!

April 10, 2017

It has been a LONG time since I’ve used an AAC device in my speech therapy sessions.  The last time was probably over 15 years ago when I worked with multiply handicapped children, and the AAC devices were LOW tech.  If I were a betting person, I would have put money on never encountering an AAC device again in my… Read More

Filed Under: AAC, Teenagers, Uncategorized

Fun & Effective Social Skills Role-Play

Fun & Effective Social Skills Role-Play

March 19, 2017

Whenever I work on social skills I frequently incorporate role-play.  Role-playing is a fun way to help build social skills and learn about social rules.  The kids always love these activities (whether watching or acting) and their attention increases.  I wanted to share some of my ideas for making role-play fun and effective in your speech room: Demonstrate the role-play… Read More

Filed Under: Social Skills, Uncategorized

Using Amazon Echo in Speech Therapy

Using Amazon Echo in Speech Therapy

January 16, 2017

When our school IT director asked if I wanted to try out the Amazon Echo Dot with my students, I quickly said “yes!”.  I’ll admit I had no idea what I was going to do with it or what the Amazon Echo Dot even really was, but I’m always eager to try new things!  Using Amazon Echo in speech therapy… Read More

Filed Under: Technology, Uncategorized

Activities to Improve Active Listening Skills

Activities to Improve Active Listening Skills

January 8, 2017

  Listening is a skill that is a lifelong process and our students with attention and social cognitive difficulties need to continually work on active listening.  I like to use the term active listening instead of whole body listening with my middle and upper elementary students for several reasons.  First,  although active listening includes whole body listening,  there is more… Read More

Filed Under: Auditory Processing, Middle School, Uncategorized

Critical Thinking Strategy for Speech Therapists

Critical Thinking Strategy for Speech Therapists

November 29, 2016

At the ASHA convention in Philadelphia, I attended many wonderful seminars.  One that provided a great critical thinking strategy was offered by Stacey Crowley from Learning Tree  Literacy.  Called the 5 WHYS, it is remarkably simple and based on the “Socratic” approach to teaching by  probing the student with questions aimed at driving thinking deeper and deeper. Here it is… Read More

Filed Under: Executive Function, Metacognition, Miscellaneous, SLP, Uncategorized

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