Unlocking Social Potential
updated 1/2023 Do you use interactive notebooks with preschoolers with language delays? Your early intervention families will love this strategy! I use it with students with language delays in the home setting by incorporating an interactive notebook with my version of the “plan-do-review” approach. Parents and SLPs write target vocabulary words and images in the notebook and periodically review… Read More
What is NVLD? updated 1/2023 Children with Non-verbal Learning Disorder (NVLD) struggle with social and spatial disabilities. There is currently no diagnosis of NVLD in the DSM (diagnostic and statistical manual for mental disorders). Poor spatial skills combined with good verbal skills is the essential feature required for a diagnosis of NVLD. These children typically have strong verbal skills… Read More
Speech language pathologists and speech therapy can help identify accommodations for students with selective mutism. updated 2024 Children with selective mutism often talk normally in settings where they are comfortable, like home. In other places, such as speech therapy, at school or the community, they can’t speak due to anxiety. A first step in treating these children is to remove… Read More
Looking for ways to improve language and literacy in your preschool students? When our district moved to a home and community-based model for service delivery of our three-year-olds with special education needs, it prompted a change in my speech therapy practices. At the same time, we were moving classrooms and office space around which lead to a “review and purge”… Read More