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COOKING UP GOOD SPEECH & LANGUAGE– FOOD FOR THOUGHT: SOCIAL & PRAGMATIC SKILLS

Many of my students have pragmatics/social skills goals in their IEPs related to conversation skills, perspective-taking, flexible/rigid thinking, and identifying problems and solutions. Cooking is an excellent activity for addressing social and pragmatic skills due to its interactive and collaborative nature. Let's look at several ways cooking ... Read More about COOKING UP GOOD SPEECH & LANGUAGE– FOOD FOR THOUGHT: SOCIAL & PRAGMATIC SKILLS

COOKING UP GOOD SPEECH & LANGUAGE– FOOD FOR THOUGHT: CRITICAL THINKING

CRITICAL THINKING is the ability to analyze, evaluate, and synthesize information in a rational and logical manner to make well-informed decisions or judgments. Many of the students we serve on our caseloads and teach in our classrooms need to strengthen this higher-level language skill area. When applying CRITICAL THINKING to teaching children ... Read More about COOKING UP GOOD SPEECH & LANGUAGE– FOOD FOR THOUGHT: CRITICAL THINKING

COOKING UP GOOD SPEECH & LANGUAGE– FOOD FOR THOUGHT: WORKING MEMORY

WORKING MEMORY is the cognitive system that temporarily holds and manipulates information during tasks. When we engage in the recipe-making process, we have many opportunities to strengthen our WORKING MEMORY! Did you know that some of the tried and true STRATEGIES that we use, as SLPs, in our speech/language sessions to strengthen WM skills ... Read More about COOKING UP GOOD SPEECH & LANGUAGE– FOOD FOR THOUGHT: WORKING MEMORY

Cooking Up Good Speech & Language– FOOD FOR THOUGHT: EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING

Executive functioning refers to a set of mental processes that enable individuals to plan, organize, manage time, pay attention, and make decisions effectively. Did you know that making recipes is an effective tool for improving executive functioning in children? When children engage in the process of following recipes, they encounter numerous ... Read More about Cooking Up Good Speech & Language– FOOD FOR THOUGHT: EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING

Using Cookbooks and Recipes to Address Speech & Language Concepts

I love keeping my therapy sessions fun, functional, motivating, and multi-sensory. Incorporating a FOOD theme seems to check all those boxes! I know it can seem a little intimidating to use real food in your sessions (although all the recipes in my LANGUAGE CHEF program require minimal kitchen equipment and basic foods and ingredients.) It can ... Read More about Using Cookbooks and Recipes to Address Speech & Language Concepts

A LOOK INSIDE THE PAGES of LANGUAGE CHEF (WITH VIDEO DEMOS OF THE RECIPES!!)

This post will provide an inside look at LANGUAGE CHEF through VIDEO DEMONSTRATIONS of some of the recipes found in the pages of my language-based cooking curriculum. Are you thinking about cooking in the classroom/speech room, but not sure what that process will look like? Click on the short video demonstrations to assist you with lesson ... Read More about A LOOK INSIDE THE PAGES of LANGUAGE CHEF (WITH VIDEO DEMOS OF THE RECIPES!!)