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Social Skills Groups:  Middle & High School

Social Skills Groups: Middle & High School

February 23, 2019

This post about running social skills groups for middle and high school students includes a sample template and topics to include in sessions.

Filed Under: Middle and High School, Social Communication Leave a Comment

Self-assessment of Social Skills!

Self-assessment of Social Skills!

January 31, 2019

Self-assessments of social skills can be both valuable from an assessment perspective as well as a valuable review and goal-setting process for your students.

Filed Under: Assessment and Progress Monitoring, Autism, Middle and High School, Social Communication Leave a Comment

Picture Books Speech Therapy  Selective Mutism

Picture Books Speech Therapy Selective Mutism

September 24, 2018

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

Filed Under: Early intervention and Elementary, SLP, Social Communication Leave a Comment

Vocabulary of Social Skills Instruction

Vocabulary of Social Skills Instruction

June 25, 2018

updated 1/23  Do you teach the vocabulary of social skills in your speech therapy or social communication lessons?  There has been focus on emotional literacy and social skills groups (check out this post on Social Skills Activities with Vocabulary Components!)   SLPs and teachers are teaching the language of emotions.  Just as we teach the vocabulary behind academics and emotions, we… Read More

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