This school year will certainly be very different from any that we have ever experienced before. You may be going back in-person, others may be continuing with the remote learning model, while many are preparing for a hybrid model. As SLPs, many of the materials that we use are interactive. We use task cards and other manipulatives that our ... Read More about Preparing for a Very Different Back-to-School–{from masks to materials}

Distance learning day 16...or is it 23? ...or 19?....heck, I can't even remember what day of the week it is let alone how many days I've been doing teletherapy! I hope everyone is having "fun" with this new way of living, learning, teaching, and thinking! (Obviously, I'm being a little sarcastic.) I know how challenging this has been for me and ... Read More about #distancelearning: Ideas for the no-frills teletherapy toolbox

Executive Functioning Skills are an area that I address on a daily basis with my students. I check their bookbags, planners, and binders regularly to be sure they are keeping organized. We discuss time management, prioritizing and task initiation. These are challenging skills for so many of them--from my elementary students all the way to my high ... Read More about #DistanceLearning with a Shoebox!

Distance learning....day 7! Here in New Jersey, school-based SLPs are not permitted to do teletherapy (yet). There's a bill on the governor's desk requesting this to be changed, in light of the current situation. There are some pretty incredible webinars out there giving us all a crash course on how to use teletherapy with our caseloads. I ... Read More about #DistanceLearning–We’re all in this together!

How well do your students understand the vocabulary they are learning?    When addressing vocabulary in my sessions,  my students will often tell me that they know what a word means, however after further investigation, I often find that they can actually only provide a vague description or application of the word.  I ... Read More about The Vocab Lab! (The Ultimate Multi-Sensory Vocabulary Tool!)