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How I do it: Teaching Personal Pronouns

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Does your brain get stressed out when you are trying to teach you/me?  I’ve read suggestions that you should avoid teaching or requiring personal pronouns I/me/you (particularly with autism) because the concepts are too abstract and that it might be better to refer to the child by name. Understanding pronouns is an important first step […]

5 Strategies for Working with that “Shut Down Kid.”

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Has this ever happened to you?  You pull out a worksheet or activity and the student says: “I hate speech,” “I already know that-I’m not stupid you know.” “Your wasting my time” Or the dreaded-shut down-where they just stare at you are refuse to do anything. You try explaining why they need to work on […]

Hanen: It Takes Two to Talk {Review}

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When you work with young children, helping parents understand how to communicate at home is as important as the intervention you provide.  That’s birth to three 101 right there.  Today, I am reviewing an updated edition of the Hanen Centre’s book, “It Takes Two to Talk.” (disclosure statement: I received a copy of this book […]

Boosting Bilingual Environments for Young Children: A review

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When I was in school, we did not talk a lot about bilingualism beyond assessing articulation and the importance of language differences vs. language disorders.  When I was in school, I was told that if you had a child who was language delayed in a bilingual home, the parents should pick one primary language.  There has […]

Teaching WHERE questions

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Where questions are some of my favorite questions to teach.  There are a lot of fun activities for working on WHERE questions.  Plus I think they are pretty easy to tackle in therapy.   I want them to be able to talk about where they were, what they want to do and also where objects are […]

Teaching Who questions

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I struggle with writing goals for teaching WHO questions because I feel like most of my materials are focused on teaching community helpers/occupations. Sometimes it doesn’t feel as functional to be talking about mechanics with 4 year olds.  Still, it’s important for children to be able to answer WHO questions to talk about who is there, who […]

Quick and Easy Speech Therapy Games: Part 4

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Today I want to share some quick and easy speech therapy games with you.  The last months of school sometimes seem to be the busiest.  Between last minute evaluations and progress reports, I’m too busy to spend a lot of time treatment planning. Pinterest is ah-mazing and you know I love a good TPT product. […]

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