Unlocking Social Potential
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
Why improve perspective-taking? Our speech therapy students with social communication disorder find it difficult to take the perspective of another person. This makes it challenging for them to navigate social relationships. It also has an academic impact upon their literacy skills. As our students move on into the early elementary grades, they learn to take into account the perspective of… Read More
Are you looking for ways to see more progress from your social skills interventions? We’ve all been there. We’ve worked with a student on their social communication skills for lengthy periods and we have not seen significant improvements. Why? There are lots of reasons that your student/client might not be improving. Six ways to see social skills progress from your interventions…. Read More