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
Are you faced with teaching personal space to preschool and elementary school children? At its core, personal space is about recognizing and interpreting nonverbal communication. Preschool and kindergarten children are often wrapped up in themselves and their own emotions and recognizing subtle emotions on others might not be where their heads are at! Piaget proposed that children as old as… 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