Unlocking Social Potential
Updated 1/23 Why do a deep r screening? An effective speech therapy intervention for the /r/ sound begins with a deep r screening. Why? The American English /r/ phoneme varies according to the sounds that proceed and follow the /r/ sound. So, if you are you only screening for the /r/ in the initial, medial and final positions of words, (as… Read More
updated 1/23 Have you considered google classroom for speech therapy? Yes, google classroom has benefits for SLPs, especially for assigning homework. I recently set classrooms up for my older students as a place to assign homework for teletherapy. (At this time there is no limit on the number of classrooms you can set up). It’s a work in progress but… Read More
Picture books are engaging tools for speech therapy with children with selective mutism. updated 1/23 When we encounter a child with selective mutism, we can be tempted to use treatment approaches during speech therapy that view selective mutism as a knowledge deficit. This would mean we treat the child like they don’t know they have to use a loud voice-so… Read More