The Evolving Definition of Pragmatics Informal pragmatics assessment of social communication should have both a receptive and an expressive component. Using a video based assessment tool allows the evaluator to efficiently obtain information about what the student understands about the skill as well as how the student uses it. The definition of pragmatics has evolved to recognize the receptive and… Read More
Boom Cards for Social Skills
Are you using boom cards for social skills? Updated 1/23 Are you looking for online social skills games to use during speech therapy sessions? Are you a teletherapist that teaches social skills in an online format? Maybe you are already using some Boom cards, but you’re wondering “what makes a quality set of Boom cards for social skills?” According to… Read More
Topic Appropriateness & Oversharing
Do you teach the skills of topic appropriateness and oversharing to your students with social communication differences? Do you have students that don’t know what information to share with others? Do they have a good understanding of what things you can say to friends versus family versus strangers? Topic appropriateness and oversharing are two important social communication skills to cover with… Read More
Starting and Joining a Conversation!
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
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