Unlocking Social Potential
Do you use social communication summer homework to prevent the summer slide for your older students? Looking for relevant social communication activities to use with middle and high school students during your warm-weather months? I’ve created two sets of BOOM cards for older students that address the critical social communication skills of These prior blog posts might also be helpful:… Read More
Why homework for social skills? updated 94/2025 I’m not a fan of homework for homework’s sake, especially with middle and high school students. Sometimes, there is a need to reinforce certain social skills or social communication concepts with students outside of our speech therapy sessions and sometimes homework can serve as a way to get through more content. Also, some… Read More
The question is about resilience-how to build in our older students? Resilience is our ability to bounce back from challenges and quickly adapt to adversity. When faced with seemingly insurmountable problems, do we regress or move forward? Supportive relationships build resilience and we need adequate social and communication skills to have positive relationships with others. Resilience is associated with social… Read More
Are you looking for unique ways to teach middle and high school students important social emotional learning lessons like what makes a good friend? Or, how possessing traits such as empathy or cooperation can change their social or vocational success? Check out my newest series of SEL stories: choose your outcomes. This series offers captivating empathy activities, cooperation activities and… Read More