A place for all things speech and language...with a Cajun twist
Are you ready for the SECOND most important thing I think you need to know when working with students who have ASD? If not, click here to read #1 first! If so, here it is: Now that your student has joint attention, interactions with others are possible! It’s time to start working on social reciprocity. . You probably know that…
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You may notice that my blogging was on hold all summer. That’s because my brain was about explode from learning so much! This past June I had the pleasure of hearing Dr. Patrick Rydell, an SLP who owns The Rocky Mountain Center for Autism, speak for a whole day. WOW! He said everything that’s been floating around my head (with…
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It’s been such a long time since I’ve written. There are lots of reasons for that. As our area was just about recovered from the “Great Flood” of 2016, my parents’ home flooded in my hometown 100 miles from Baton Rouge. At the ages of 90 and 81, you can imagine how hard it was to see your parents displaced….
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Thanks for sticking with me through this series about vocabulary. For those of you working with middle and high school students, this one is for YOU! We’ve all had them: Students who turn their noses up at ELA assignments Those who avoid participating in class The ones who don’t or won’t do assignments at all Kids who are bored as…
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I want to share with you some more tried and true strategies for teaching vocabulary. The first is LINCS from the University of Kansas. LINCS is a mnemonic device for ingraining new words. It helps students to make memorable connections and relationships between the word and it’s meaning.For example, I vividly remember the first time I heard the word minuscule…
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To be completely transparent, for more than half of my career, I was torn about exactly how to attack vocabulary- about providing instruction that would actually have an impact past my therapy room. I confess… I used many of the questionable methods that I discussed in Part 1 of this series. I often taught words in the moment; I taught…
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