Unlocking Social Potential
Updated 10/2021 Looking for some fun halloween speech and language activities for your speech therapy sessions? What is not to love about fall and halloween? I love decorating my home, both inside and outside for fall and Halloween and I also decorated my therapy room with… Read More
Updated 2022 Teaching young children to identify real or pretend Halloween images is a valuable activity. Halloween is supposed to be such a fun time with children but it can end up as a fearful experience too! Think about all the media images related to it, monsters, witches and all sorts of ghoulish characters! Developmental psychologist, Jean Piaget found… Read More
updated 3/2023 How do you teach your students to succeed in joining a conversation during your speech therapy sessions? An important social competency, it can be a difficult social communication skill for many of us to acquire, especially when we are joining a conversation with unfamiliar people. I like to start by discussing with my students that there are two… Read More
Are you planning for a screening or informal assessment for selective mutism? What is selective mutism? According to Asha, selective mutism is a childhood anxiety disorder. It is also known as “situational speaking.” A primary characteristic is a child’s inability to speak and communicate effectively in select social settings, like school. A child’s symptoms of reluctance to speak can vary… Read More