Unlocking Social Potential
Updated 1/23 Are you teaching sarcasm to your students and clients during speech therapy or counseling? It’s a nuanced topic and people have strong opinions about the its place in the world as a communication tool. Some SLPs and parents wonder if detecting sarcasm is a skill we should (or shouldn’t) be teaching students with autism during our speech therapy… Read More
Social Skills Conversation Skills – Responses that form Connections. updated 1/23 Do you focus on how to have meaningful conversations in your social skills or speech therapy sessions? How can we teach our students to have meaningful conversation skills? You know, conversations that don’t just bounce around on the surface but actually help them form friendships and work towards enhanced… Read More
Do you work on test-taking vocabulary with middle and high school students? Do you have middle or high school students that don’t do well on formal tests and assignments with open-ended questions? Are you spinning your wheels when working on academic or high stakes vocabulary? One way to have your interventions make a cross curricular impact is to work on… Read More
Do you use Instagram or other social media to teach inference skills? It is engaging for our middle and high school students! The format of social media gives our students the visual supports and cues they need to make an inference. Social media can be a great way to teach students how to draw conclusions using materials that they are… Read More