Unlocking Social Potential
Are you looking for unique ways to teach middle and high school students important social emotional learning lessons like what makes a good friend? Or, how possessing traits such as empathy or cooperation can change their social or vocational success? Check out my newest series of SEL stories: choose your outcomes. This series offers captivating empathy activities, cooperation activities and… Read More
Let Freedom Ring! Martin Luther King Jr. day in the United States is a time to celebrate his leadership traits, including unity, equality, service, courage, integrity and empathy. Our high school speech therapy students are in formative years, figuring out who they want to be, and what they stand for in their lives. I’d like to share some speech therapy… 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
How Not to Teach Social Communication What is the opposite of using scaffolding to teach social communication skills during your speech therapy sessions? “Read this story about ____ (insert social communication skill), answer these questions and then show me how you mastered the skill.” Yikes! No structured learning, no vocabulary review, no self-assessment, no practice, no feedback, no safety net…and… Read More