Unlocking Social Potential
Updated 7/24 Do you teach personal space concepts to middle and high school students with autism during your in-person or online speech therapy or special education sessions? This blog post is on personal space activities with older students. If you are looking for personal space ideas for preschool or elementary students, this blog post may help or you might like… Read More
Benefits of Teaching Them! Asking questions is considered an important academic and listening skill. We teach students to ask them to seek clarity and understanding of academic content. In speech therapy, we also teach them as a way of compensating for difficulties with auditory processing. Asking clarifying questions also helps in social situations, when we seek understanding of the perspective… Read More
Do you advocate on behalf of your high school students with disabilities? Hopefully, all SLPs firmly answered “yes.” Do you teach your students how to advocate for themselves? This is as important, if not more! RESPECT to the school districts that teach students about their educational rights well before their transition meeting, but knowing your rights is only one part… Read More
Are you teaching social rules? updated 1/23 What do we mean by social rules or social norms, aka inferred rules? Are there really rules for social interaction? Yes. They are not absolute like, say school rules or sports rules. As SLPs and special education teachers, we often discuss what skills are important to teach in our social skills or speech… Read More