Hey everyone. Thanks so much for reading my blog this year. I have enjoyed writing the articles, creating new speech/language products, and getting to know many new SLP bloggers this year. One of my highlights was definitely meeting several bloggers at the ASHA conference in Orlando, FL back in November. I wish you and your …
Happy Holidays from Building Successful Lives (BSL) Speech & Language! I am writing from the comforts of home today as I am now on day 3 of recovering from the flu. As the year is quickly coming to an end, this is a great time to naturally reflect on skills that you have taught your students …
I am thrilled that I will soon be on winter break until 2015! I can not wait. Now is a great time to add new resources to your speech/language therapy materials to make your sessions a breeze for the rest of the year and beginning in January. My TPT store is on sale 20 % …
Hey everyone. I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving holiday. The past 2 days have been super busy at work. I feel like it should be Friday already! Yikes! I bought some great speech-language therapy products during the TPT Cyber Sale today such as: Nicole Allison’s Leveled Vocabulary Intervention Jenn Alcorn’s Book Companions Lauren …
I am so excited for this week. I have a 2 day work week and then I am off to Orlando, FL (my home state) for ASHA Conference!!! Then I will attend a wedding and have a week of Thanksgiving BREAK!! 🙂 The new year, 2015 will be here before you know it. 2014 has …
Over the years, I have provided speech therapy for several preschool to middle school age children who stutter. I know how valuable it is to have a way to quickly take data on the frequency of a child’s dysfluent episodes, types of stuttering, stuttering severity, and secondary behaviors during therapy sessions. That’s why I am …
I am excited that my latest product, Vocabulary Progress Monitoring, is available for use by speech-language pathologists and can be purchased in my TPT store. This essential and effective informal assessment tool assesses 300 vocabulary words. http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Vocabulary-Progress-Monitoring-1520541 I have personally used these quick evaluation tools with children who have speech-language disorders to measure their semantic processing …
Many students with language disorders have co-occurring learning disabilities in the areas of reading and writing. They need direct intervention to increase their reading decoding, sight word recognition, reading fluency, and reading comprehension. Students need practice to improve their automaticity for oral reading of sight words. Recently, I have been thinking of ways to support …
This week, I have been integrating technology based literacy activities in pediatric speech-language group therapy sessions. So many kids with receptive language disorders need to improve their listening comprehension skills when read fiction and non-fiction text. That is why I love the 2 products from Super Duper Publications, Auditory Memory for Quick Stories (fiction text) …
Here are my children’s literature reviews for books to use during the month of October. The first two books are ideal for addressing listening comprehension and vocabulary skills with children who are learning everyday Tier I words. A is for Autumn, by Robert Mass is a colorful book with great photographs that display nouns and …
