tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25277984972184719782024-03-16T14:53:07.454-04:00 Live Love SpeechA sweet little speech and language blogAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17745148010077995581noreply@blogger.comBlogger141125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527798497218471978.post-61673980752392243672014-01-22T20:42:00.001-05:002014-01-22T20:42:52.335-05:00Live Love Speech is moving to a NEW HOME!<div style="text-align: center;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17745148010077995581noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527798497218471978.post-70769886371628029432014-01-04T23:33:00.000-05:002014-01-04T23:33:50.358-05:00SLP Secret Santa Exchange!!<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
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excited to share this post with all of you! I am extremely fortunate to
be part of an amazing group of SLP bloggers! We have all become very
close and I consider each and every one of them my friends. This holiday
season, some of us decided to do a Secret Santa Exchange!! </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">It was so exciting to find out who my "secret santa" was
and even more exciting to begin shopping! I loved the entire process of
choosing the perfect gifts! With that said....are you curious what I
received from my "secret santa" .....Well here you go....</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Amazon Gift Card and the MOST ADORABLE ornament representing my
blog, Live Love Speech!!!</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">And another shot just because I am obsessed with this ornament!</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">These amazing gifts came from my friend Jenna over at <a href="http://speechroomnews.blogspot.com/">Speech RoomNews</a>!</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">This was an amazing experience and I was so excited to be a part
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Be sure to head over to Miss Speechie at <a href="http://speechtimefun.blogspot.com/">Speech Time Fun</a> to see
what her "secret santa" (ME!) got her!</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17745148010077995581noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527798497218471978.post-20745888646830257032013-12-06T14:06:00.000-05:002013-12-06T14:06:56.521-05:00Holiday/Winter FREEBIES Round-up!!!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope everyone enjoyed the TpT Cyber Sale this past Monday and Tuesday! I know I grabbed some great activities and clip art which I can't wait to use! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ok, now it is time for some awesome FREEBIES for the holiday/winter season! A co-worker asked me if I knew of any freebies out there on TpT for the upcoming holiday so I had to find some for her! With the help of many fellow amazing SLP bloggers, I have come up with a pretty great list which you will see below!!! I hope you are able to use some (or all!) of these super awesome freebies! Enjoy!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First up, I personally have a ton of winter/holiday FREEBIES I want to share with all of (shameless plug! haha).....</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Open-Ended-Printable-Game-Boards-Happy-Holidays-431806"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Open-Ended Printable Game Boards Happy Holidays</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/What-is-under-the-tree-423520">What is under the tree?</a> A listening for details activity</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Holiday-Sentences-428078">Holiday Sentences</a>: O<span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; line-height: 16px;">pen-ended board game with the task cards presented or with any other stimuli</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Winter-People-Sentences-Third-Person-Pronouns-he-she-they-445820">Winter People Sentences (Third Person Pronouns- he, she, they)</a>: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">helps students state sentences that contain the third person pronouns 'he, she, and they'.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Building-a-Snowman-WITH-SLIDE-TO-SLIDE-ANIMATION-PowerPoint-463875">Building a snowman with Slide to Slide Animation (PowerPoint)</a>: <span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; line-height: 16px;">Target sequencing skills as the pieces of the snowman come together</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; line-height: 16px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/FREEBIE-PRE-KINDERGARTEN-WINTER-CONCEPTS-459521">Pre-Kindergarten Winter Concepts</a>: </span></div>
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<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/FREEBIE-Irregular-Past-Tense-Verb-Snowmen-Match-Up-425146"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Irregular Past Tense Verb Snowmen Match Up</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/FREEBIE-WINTERTIME-ROLL-AND-COLOR-ARTICULATION-SOUNDS-TH-R-L-S-AND-V-979273"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WINTERTIME ROLL AND COLOR ARTICULATION SOUNDS: TH, R, L, S, AND V</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Happily SLP</b></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Christmas-Tree-Barrier-Game-1007152"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Christmas-Tree-Barrier-Game-1007152</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Christmas-Following-Directions-Freebie-997191"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christmas Following Directions</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Yay-Snow-Day-open-ended-board-game-421571"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yay, Snow Day! Open-ended Board Game</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*Check out the blog posts below for some great freebies*</span></div>
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<a href="http://carriesspeechcorner.blogspot.com/2013/01/snowy-speech-and-language-activities.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://carriesspeechcorner.blogspot.com/2013/01/snowy-speech-and-language-activities.html</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://carriesspeechcorner.blogspot.com/2012/11/a-gingerbread-freebie-for-you.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://carriesspeechcorner.blogspot.com/2012/11/a-gingerbread-freebie-for-you.html</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://carriesspeechcorner.blogspot.com/2012/11/book-of-week-gingerbread-pirates-plus.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://carriesspeechcorner.blogspot.com/2012/11/book-of-week-gingerbread-pirates-plus.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Crazy Speech World</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*Check out the blog posts below for some great freebies*</span></div>
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<a href="http://crazyspeechworld.blogspot.com/2012/11/elfie-synonyms-freebie.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://crazyspeechworld.blogspot.com/2012/11/elfie-synonyms-freebie.html</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://crazyspeechworld.blogspot.com/2012/12/holiday-tags-freebie.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://crazyspeechworld.blogspot.com/2012/12/holiday-tags-freebie.html</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Ugly-Christmas-Sweater-Categories-998668"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ugly Christmas Sweaters Categories</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-Mitten-Sorting-FREEBIE-Winter-Themed-Animal-Sorting-Activity-991308"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Mitten Sorting-Winter Themed Animal Sorting Activity</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Christmas-Token-Boards-for-use-with-Magnetic-Wand-and-Chips-984307"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christmas Token Boards for use with Magnetic Wand and Chips</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Roll-and-Cover-Christmas-988140"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Roll and Cover Christmas</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Winter-Color-by-Number-FREEBIE-1008235"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Winter Color by Number</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Christmas-Fortune-Teller-FREEBIE-1008227"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christmas Fortune Teller</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Winter-Wonderland-Language-Activities-for-Speech-Language-Therapy-Freebie-419573"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Winter Wonderland Language Activities for Speech Therapy</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Christmas-Social-Language-Packet-Freebie-441184"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christmas Social Language Packet</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Winter-Matching-Game-992451"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Winter Match Game</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For more and more winter and holiday freebies, be sure to check out Lauren over at <a href="http://busybeespeech.blogspot.com/">Busy Bee Speech</a>'s Linky party this Friday!! </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17745148010077995581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527798497218471978.post-75238821745980860882013-11-30T00:00:00.000-05:002013-12-02T16:03:03.425-05:00What's in your cart? Linky Party!!!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is my first time linking up to a linky party and I am super excited!!! It was created by Jenna over at Speech Room News. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Christmas-Social-Skills-407049" target="_blank">Christmas Social Skills by Speech Room News</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As some of you may know, I am expecting my first baby
(It's a BOY!) and will be taking some time off from work and blogging before
and after his arrival. During that time, there will be several guest
bloggers/SLPs that will be featured on my blog. I am so excited to share all of
the amazing, informative posts they have come up with. I can not thank them all
enough for taking the time to write these posts! Just another one of the many
reasons I love being part of the SLP world. I hope you all enjoy reading everything
over the next several weeks. Please feel free to leave comments and post
questions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I recently wrote another </span><a href="http://www.playingwithwords365.com/2013/08/autism-in-the-schools-5-team-tips/" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">guest post for playingwithwords365</span></a><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> about tips for working as a team when servincing students with Autism in the schools. A major component of your team are the <u>parents</u> and the relationship you build with them is SO important. I'd like to share some of the amazing things going on in my district to facilitate and support these relationships.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This does not have to be official. Email and spread the word to your staff. Ask for volunteers. My school is lucky to be apart of <span style="color: #092851; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: blue;">a local group of parents, school staff, and others who are looking for ways to support students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and their families. If your local district does not currently have something like this, you can look into the </span><a href="http://www.autism-society.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: magenta;">Autism Society</span>.</span></a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #092851; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Life is busy - but if you can dedicate one night a month to the families of the students you work with - it will make a HUGE impact! Here are some of the events I participated in last school year:</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #092851; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Family First</u>: Group discussion on how Autism affects parents, children, and the relationships within your family.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #092851; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Therapy Panel</u>: ask local therapists to share about the services they offer.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #092851; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Other topics could include: make and take it, understanding the IEP, meet and greet, book club night.</span></span></li>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">That sums up all the awesome things going on in my neck of the woods! What do you do to help build the relationships between parents and staff?? I'd love to hear!</span><br />
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<em>These activities would not be possible without the dedicated and supportive staff I work with. I would like to say THANK YOU to all of you who give your time, energy, and money to our group. It is apparent you are committed to changing the way for Autism.</em> <br />
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<strong>About the author</strong><br />
Kristine is a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist that works in the schools in Grand Rapids, MI and coauthor of <a href="http://www.speaklistenplay.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">Speak Listen Play</span></a>. You can find her on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Speak-Listen-Play/254852284644643" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">Facebook</span>,</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/speaklistenplay" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">Twitter</span></a>, <a href="http://pinterest.com/speaklistenplay/" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">Pinterest</span></a>, and <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Speak-Listen-Play" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">TeachersPayTeachers</span></a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17745148010077995581noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527798497218471978.post-51574383000418599612013-11-13T08:00:00.000-05:002013-11-13T08:00:17.912-05:00Monolingual SLP in a Bilingual World<div align="center" class="normal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yep, that’s me! I would
love to be bilingual. I have tried to become bilingual. Sadly, I am not
bilingual. I took 5+ years of Spanish throughout high school and early in
college; however, by the time I actually needed to use it 6 or 7 years later, I
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next came graduate
school; I attended San Jose State University and had the pleasure of being the
student of Dr. Henriette Langdon, Ed. D, F-CCC-SLP, the guru (in my mind) of
Speech-Language Pathology in culturally and linguistically diverse populations.
There was a considerable amount I did not know about bilingual language
development and cultural issues. She has authored two fantastic books that I
still refer to all the time. They are both great reads!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Which brings me to my
current job… I relocated to San Diego and I work at a school where 86% of
students are Spanish dominant. Now if
that many students are Spanish dominant, imagine the percentage of Spanish
dominant parents! I can count on my fingers the number of parents that speak
English well enough to have an IEP meeting without an interpreter. I have to work with a bilingual interpreter
for the vast majority of my IEP meetings and assessments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now if you have never
worked with an interpreter or need some guidance, here are…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Plan Ahead:</b>
Goodness I cannot stress this enough! At the beginning of the year I sit down
and try to plan out all of my meetings and assessment times. Yes, ALL. Usually
when a district hires a bilingual interpreter they are busy people and their
time fills up fast. This also makes it easy to reschedule meetings if needed.
Also, the interpreter needs enough time to contact parents when need be.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Even if you send
something home in writing, have the
bilingual interpreter call home</b> <b>to
explain</b>. Sometimes, even if the paper is in their native language the
parent may have questions or may speak/read a different dialect. It’s best to
just call ahead, tell the parent what to expect and what you need from them.
They can also ask questions ahead of time this way. The last thing you want is
to send an evaluation plan home and not get it back because they have questions
or don’t know what the paper is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Collaborate
before and after every meeting/assessment</b>. Always. We see the students and
parents more often than the bilingual interpreters do. We need to share our
insight (especially before assessments) with them about behavior (including
parents’ behavior), what to expect, what the meeting is about or what kind of
assessments you need. You don’t want the interpreter to be surprised by
something you already knew but didn’t tell them. Collaborating after the
meeting is over gives you a great way to talk about what the two of you would
like to do differently next time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Be flexible. </b>Every
bilingual interpreter does things differently. Get used to it. I had one
bilingual interpreter whom I became very used to. She then retired, was replaced by three
interpreters, and they all did things differently. It took some getting used
to. I had one interpreter who interpreted simultaneously. It was very hard for
my brain to process two languages at once! I found I kept losing track of where
I was and couldn’t think straight. Just like all SLPs conduct therapy
differently, the interpreter has to get used to us and the way we run meetings and
conduct assessments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Watch your
language! </b>Okay, not like that. SLPs love to use big fancy words and
acronyms. Try to use layman’s terms as much as possible, avoid figurative
language, and idioms; you will end up having to explain in detail what you meant. In addition, remember that jokes and some
emotions (sarcasm) do not translate well.
Never assume the bilingual interpreter or parent knows what you are
talking about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Keep it short.</b>
Remember that ,with interpreting, your
meetings will naturally be longer. Try not to read your entire evaluation
report or go through every single subtest score. Go through the main points. My
favorite way is to use a standard bell curve (find one<a href="http://www.concordspedpac.org/Bell-curve-SD.htm"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></a><a href="http://www.concordspedpac.org/Bell-curve-SD.htm"><span style="color: #1155cc;">here</span></a>)
with my scores plotted on it. Numbers are a language everyone speaks. Then you can answer questions or go more in depth
if the parent needs more information.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Remember to look
at the parent when speaking.</b> Every once in a while I catch myself looking
at my bilingual interpreter and not the parent when explaining something. It’s
okay if it’s for clarification for the interpreter, but remember to return your
gaze to the parent. Now, do not expect
all parents to return that courtesy, it depends on their culture and what they
are comfortable with. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Listen</b>. You
have to be patient. I don’t have to tell you that SLPs can be a chatty bunch:
however, when working with interpreters you need to learn to sit and listen.
Yes, your IEPs will likely take a bit longer, but you need to say a sentence or
two and stop. It’s hard for bilingual interpreters to remember any more than
that. It will be difficult at first. After you have worked with someone for a
while; you will be able to tell how much to say before stopping.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Learn.</b> I
have learned so much Spanish that I consider myself to be almost receptively
bilingual. I have learned about how my students acquire language sequentially
versus simultaneously. I now have the ability to distinguish language disorder
or typical bilingual language development. I know more about Spanish culture
now than I ever thought I would.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Have Fun!</b> This takes time, but you will
be surprised how fast you will get used to having a bilingual interpreter
around. Now when I have an English-speaking parent I get nervous because I
don’t have that language barrier to provide me with extra think time. I have
found I enjoy working with interpreters, and I think you will too! Have fun!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> As some of you may know, I am expecting my first baby (It's a BOY!) and will be taking some time off from work and blogging before and after his arrival. During that time, there will be several guest bloggers/SLPs that will be featured on my blog. I am so excited to share all of the amazing, informative posts they have come up with. I can not thank them all enough for taking the time to write these posts! Just another one of the many reasons I love being part of the SLP world. I hope you all enjoy reading everything over the next several weeks. Please feel free to leave comments and post questions.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<b>The importance of narrative assessments in speech language pathology</b></div>
As speech language pathologists we routinely administer a variety of testing batteries in order to assess our students’ speech-language abilities. Grammar, syntax, vocabulary, and sentence formulation get frequent and thorough attention. But how about narrative production? Does it get its fair share of attention when the clinicians are looking to determine the extent of the child’s language deficits? I was so curious about what the clinicians across the country were doing that I created a survey and posted a link to it on various social media sites (e.g., Facebook). I wanted to find out how many SLPs were performing narrative assessments, in which settings, and with which populations. From those who were performing these assessments I wanted to know what type of assessments were they using and how they were recording and documenting their findings. Since the purpose of this survey was non-research based (I wasn’t planning on submitting a research manuscript with my findings), I only analyzed the first 100 responses (the rest were very similar in nature) which came my way, in order to get the general flavor of current trends among clinicians, when it came to narrative assessments. Here’s a brief overview of my [limited] findings.
Of the first 100 clinician’s whose responses were analyzed, the two largest groups were composed of SLPs who had been practicing for over 15 years (39%) as well as those who had been practicing from 5-10 years (18%).
Of course it was not a surprise that 76% of these practitioners were based in school setting followed by 23% of practitioners in private practice. Out of them only about <b>74%</b> of clinicians had ever assessed narratives. These numbers went further on decrease when asked how often these narrative assessments took place: 40% of clinicians stated that they’ve done it rarely with <25% of students, followed by 28% who stated that they performed narrative assessments only some of the time with <50% of students.
When asked if the clinicians favored standardized instruments, non-standardized instruments, or both, the responses were split. Out of those SLPs who performed narrative assessments (see above), 52% favored standardized instruments while a whopping 68% favored non-standardized instruments, indicating an overlap in what instruments were used by clinicians.
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However, it was when I asked the question: ‘What type of narrative assessments have you administered?’ that I received the most interesting responses. More than 50% of clinicians preferred the <strong><a href="http://www.proedinc.com/customer/productview.aspx?id=3316">Test of Narrative Language</a>. </strong>Another 27% preferred non-specific dynamic assessments and yet another 27% performed a wide variety of <i>other </i>assessments, which included but not limited to: informal language samples analyses (e.g.,<strong> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/One-Frog-Too-Many-Boy/dp/0803728859">One Frog Too Many</a>), <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/peter-cat-narrative-assessment/id550429734?mt=8">Peter and the Cat Narrative Assessment</a>, </strong>MindWing concepts’<strong> <a href="http://mindwingconcepts.com/aboutus.htm">Story Grammar Marker</a> (SGM), <a href="http://www.southalabama.edu/alliedhealth/speechandhearing/bbeverly/534Swanson.pdf">Developmental Sentence Score</a> (DSS), <a href="http://www.socialthinking.com/what-is-social-thinking/evaluation-assessment">Michelle Garcia Winner's Dynamic Assessment Protocol</a>, </strong>informal story retelling analysis via<strong> <a href="http://www.saltsoftware.com/">SALT software</a>, <a href="http://ajslp.asha.org/cgi/content/short/3/1/45">Assessment of Preschool Narrative Skills</a> </strong>(McCabe and Rollins, 1994),<strong> <a href="http://www.rehabresearch.ualberta.ca/enni/">The Edmonton Narrative Norms Instrument</a> </strong> (ENNI), as well as a numerous other instruments.
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One thing which became immediately apparent by reviewing the survey results is that SLPs who used non-standardized instruments clearly used an impressively wide variety of assessments. Another was that some of the SLP-listed instruments <b><i>did not actually assess narrative skills</i></b>. For example some survey respondents stated that they used the <a href="http://www.proedinc.com/customer/productview.aspx?id=1030"><b>Test of Word Finding in Discourse</b></a><b> (TWFD). </b>However, this test<b> </b>actually assesses conversational skills and not narrative skills. A few responders stated that they used “responses on the definitions subtest of the <a href="http://www.linguisystems.com/products/product/display?itemid=10274"><b>Word Test – 2</b></a>”, as a narrative measure, however, those responses can at best count as informal assessment of spontaneous sentence formulation vs. a true narrative assessment.
<b>So what actually constitutes a true narrative assessment and why are narrative assessments so important? </b>
Well, in order for an assessment to count as a narrative assessment, an SLP must listen to some kind of prompted/unprompted story recounting some form of an event (instead of engaging in a back-and-forth conversational exchange with the child or listening to him/her formulate a brief response based on presented questions).
There are several different types of narratives:
<strong>Scripts</strong> -express knowledge of a familiar, recurring events
<strong>Recounts</strong> - retell a personal experience when prompted and are shared by listener
<strong> Event casts</strong> - explain an ongoing activity, report on a factual scene, or tell about a future plan
<strong> Accounts</strong> - explain personal experience without the prompts and are not shared by the listener
<strong> Fictional story retelling</strong> – involves the child retelling a story that he/she read or which was read to him/her
Out of these narrative types, accounts of personal experience as well as retelling of fictional stories are used most frequently by researchers to assess children’s narrative competence. Here are just some of the reasons why these are preferred.
Personal narratives constitute a large section of functional discourse commonly found in the spontaneous conversation of typically developing preschool and school-aged children. They are sensitive to narrative competence (Bliss & McCabe 2012). They require the speaker to organize an account or a recount of past experiences. They provide effective ways to tax the system due to unplanned discourse (Hadley, 1998; Hughes, 2001). Although they are natural to tell, they also require that the storyteller makes the story interesting to listeners so not to lose their attention (Hughes, 2001). Finally, they are important for connecting with family and friends as well as for literacy acquisition (Bliss & McCabe 2012).
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Similarly, fictional narratives tap into the child’s knowledge of organizational framework and are sensitive to language impairment (McCabe & Rosenthal-Rollins, 1994). They have been routinely been identified as one of the single best predictors of future academic success (Bishop & Edmundson, 1987; Feegans & Appelbaum 1986). Poor discourse and narrative abilities place children at risk for learning and literacy-related difficulties including reading problems (McCabe & Rosenthal-Rollins, 1994).
Narrative analyses help to distinguish children with language impairment from their typically developing peers (Allen et al 2012). Furthermore, language produced during story retelling is positively related to bilingual reading achievement (Miller et al, 2006).
Narrative retelling bridges the gap between oral and written language and is important for appropriate reading and writing development (Snow et al, 1998). It provides insights into child’s verbal expression since it taps into multiple language features and organizational abilities simultaneously (Hoffman, 2009; McCabe & Bliss, 2003; Ukrainetz, 2006). This is not the case with standardized testing. Many children may evidence appropriate performance on standardized testing but still display significant difficulties in the area of narrative production. However, unless SLPs assess narratives in children specifically, they run the risk of overlooking weaknesses in this area of functioning.
Finally, assessment of narratives is very important because poor storytelling skills are indicative of social pragmatic language impairment. In fact, part of the diagnostic criteria of <strong><a href="http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/?pageId=368">social pragmatic communication disorder in the DSM-V™</a></strong> is “difficulties following rules for conversation and <b>storytelling</b>”.
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<b>So what are some ways in which SLPs can assess narratives</b>?
When it comes to narrative assessment SLPs have many options available to them (as illustrated above). Depending on the age and type of the population they are working with (e.g., school-age vs. preschool) they can chose from a variety of standardized, non-standardized, or dynamic assessments. However, when choosing the assessment it is very important to ensure that it examines both microstructure and macrostructure domains of storytelling.
When analyzing microstructure we are looking at the child’s grammar, syntax and vocabulary competence (content and form). In contrast, when we examine macrostructure we are looking at the child’s use of language. Is the story organized and cohesive? (Justice et al, 2006) Does it contain the story grammar elements commensurate with their age such as setting, initiating event, internal response, attempt, consequences, and reaction (Stein & Glenn, 1979)?
For school children 5;00-11;11 years of age, the standardized assessment, <strong><a href="http://www.proedinc.com/customer/productview.aspx?id=3316">Test of Narrative Language</a>- TNL</strong> (2004) examines the microstructure and macrostructure elements, as well as measures the child’s ability to answer literal and inferential comprehension questions. It costs about $192, however, prior to purchasing it, SLPs should be aware that it does have some limitations. For starters, personally, I found it to be much more effective at identifying narrative deficits in severely language impaired children vs. children with more milder/subtler impairments. Additionally, on the <b>TNL</b>, test-retest reliabilities are not separately calculated for different ages. Thus, according to Baxter & Van Lingen, 2005, the test-retest data are based on a small, non-representative group and are not strong enough for clinical decision-making (p. 1041). <b>TNL</b> also does not equally represent all tested age-groups and SES levels. For example, the 5-year old group (n=83) was small and almost ½ of the number of the other groups and “upper-income” children were overrepresented in the sample (Baxter & Van Lingen, 2005, p. 1041). As many other standardized tests, <b>TNL</b> favors children with “mainstream” experience and is not recommended for use with multicultural/low SES children from “low print”/”low talk” environments. (Hayward et al 2008).
To continue, if you are working with preschool/kindergarten aged children, then you might want to consider either the <strong><a href="http://preschoollab.osu.edu/nap/">Narrative Assessment Protocol (NAP)</a> </strong>by Pence, Justice, & Gosse (2007) or the<strong> <a href="http://languagedynamicsgroup.com/products.html">Narrative Language Measures (NLM)</a> </strong>by Petersen & Spencer (2012) both of which are available online for free.
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Let’s begin with <b>NAP</b>. Developed for children 3-6 years of age, it uses Mercer Mayer’s (1969) ‘Frog, Where are You?’ book to analyze the child’s story microstructure (e.g., sentence and phrase structures, modifiers, nouns and verbs). According to the manual, the macrostructure domain of the <b>NAP</b> is currently under development. However, since the most recent manual was last updated in August 2008, I am not quite certain how up-to-date this information really is. To continue <b>NAP</b> is fairly easy to use. The child is first shown a book then asked to tell a story using pictures as prompts. One of the advantages of <b>NAP</b> is that it does not require narrative transcription and manual utterance tallying, since the examiner scores the narrative as the story is being told. However, the lack of macrostructure analysis is a big disadvantage in my eyes, which is why I personally do not use this assessment when I analyze the narratives of preschool children.
Next up is the <b>NLM. </b>Referred to by its authors as the free RTI focused assessment tool, the <b>NLM</b> has two developed versions: <b>NLM:P </b>and<b> NLM:K</b> for preschool and kindergarten children respectively. For the purposes of this post I’ll review the preschool version only, which according to the authors is the most researched one. The administration time per each subtest takes approximately 2–5 minutes. Subtests are scored in real time while the child is narrating. The scoring rubrics contain 0–2 or 0–3 point ratings and cover 2 critical subscales: story grammar and language complexity. Of course since this is a standardized test it does contain some limitations. Children who lack previous exposure to testing may do poorly, so cultural considerations are always an important factor. Authors also strongly urge that single subtest administration be avoided and if the child’s abilities are probed infrequently (e.g., seasonally), the administration of all 3 subtests is strongly recommended for validity purposes. However, to me the biggest issue is that the subtests lack norms or cut scores to help identify at risk children. Depending on the setting you are in, the administration of this test may make it difficult for you to qualify the child for services, which is why you might be better off with an informal assessment.
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Personally, I prefer informal narrative assessments to the standardized ones. There are many advantages to informal assessments. They provide more detailed information regarding microstructural and macrostructural elements as well as child’s thought processes and socio-emotional functioning. They are based on least biased assessment principle (Goldstein, 2006), which means that you can make adaptations/modifications if you are using a standardized protocol, you can take into account cultural considerations, and of course spontaneous language sample measures that can supplement and clarify diagnostic information from standardized assessments (Rojas & Iglesias, 2009).
Here’s how I perform mine. I use the books recommended by the <strong><a href="http://www.saltsoftware.com/salt/elicitationbooks/">SALT Software</a></strong> website because it offers convenient suggestions by age, ranging from preschool through 6<sup>th</sup> grade. I typically read the story to the child first then cover up the words and ask the child to retell the story based on pictures alone. I read the story first because: “the model narrative presents the events, plot structure, and words that the narrator is to retell, which allows more reliable scoring than a generated story that can go in many directions” (Allen et al, 2012, p. 207).
As the child is retelling the story I digitally record his/her narrative for transcription and thorough analysis. During story telling I use the prompts such as: ‘What else can you tell me?’ and ‘Can you tell me more?’ to elicit additional information, however, I try not to prompt the child excessively; otherwise the child is producing prompted responses vs. telling me a spontaneous story.
So what am I looking at when I am performing my narrative analysis?
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Well, in the words of Pookins from Helen Lester’s ‘Pookins Gets Her Way’: “Lots!”
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<li> Sequencing Ability
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<li>Is the story order appropriate or jumbled up?</li>
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<li> Working Memory
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<li> Is the child using enough details?</li>
<li>Are these details relevant to the story?</li>
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<li>Grammar
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<li>Does the sentence structure contains errors such as run-on sentences or incorrectly produced words</li>
<li>Is the child using temporal markers and cohesive ties to connect the story together</li>
<li>Is the child’s sentence complexity adequate for their age?</li>
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<li>Vocabulary
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<li>Is it immature or age-level?</li>
<li>Does the child have word retrieval issues or is s/he maintaining lexical fluency?</li>
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<li>Pragmatics
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<li>Is there story cohesion and coherence?</li>
<li>Is there adequate use of anaphoric references (pronouns identifying characters)?</li>
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<li>Perspective Taking
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<li>Does the child have appropriate insight into character’s feelings, beliefs, thoughts?</li>
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I evaluate these areas using the guidelines set forth in Hedberg & Westby, 1993 “Analyzing Storytelling Skills” book, which offers a comprehensive guide to narrative analysis. After I finish, I include the transcription and a detailed write-up in the body of my language report, so parents and professionals could see it and understand the nature of the child’s errors/weaknesses. Another reason why I include the transcription in the body of my report is because it allows parents and professionals to compare past results with future gains and to see in which specific areas (e.g., story complexity, sentence structure, perspective taking, use of details etc) progress was made following therapeutic intervention.
Because storytelling encompasses a number of higher-level language and cognitive skills (Paul et al, 1996), I believe that it should be an integral component of every language evaluation since no other assessment yields as much information about the child’s language abilities as the narrative one.
Now that I’ve told you how I perform narrative assessments, I’d love to know how you perform them and what formal/informal instruments do you use?
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<li><strong><a href="http://www.smartspeechtherapy.com/shop/understanding-complex-sentences/">Understanding Complex Sentences</a></strong></li>
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<b> <b><img alt="" class="alignleft" height="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj39CuGk5zUvYdIbJC6eVciF699VHPmaiDlAtkdq-0pjM-7GopDUB5s4bHKDeCHBY477ewDSnk2P8sImpcCNudquqby8y8BkvcZMXFm8kUhAWKMBHMR9PKJ2Isw4pwSOLMTeo9k-qtEkdZ_/s200/Tatyana+Elleseff.jpg" width="111" />Bio: </b>Tatyana Elleseff MA CCC-SLP is a bilingual SLP with a full time hospital affiliation as well as private practice in Central, NJ. She specializes in working with multicultural, internationally and domestically adopted as well as at-risk children with complex communication disorders. For more information visit her <strong><a href="http://www.smartspeechtherapy.com/blog/">BLOG</a>, </strong><strong><a href="http://www.smartspeechtherapy.com/shop/">STORE</a>, or </strong>follow her <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SmartSpeechTherapyLlc"><strong>Facebook</strong></a> page.</b>
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<li>Rojas, R. & Iglesias, A. (2009, March 03). Making a Case for Language Sampling : Assessment and Intervention With (Spanish-English) Second Language Learners. The ASHA Leader.</li>
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Rutgers University Behavioral Healthcare
Smart Speech Therapy LLC
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I work closely with parents
during therapy and I very much love the aspect of educating, training and
counseling parents on various techniques that can facilitate success in all
communication areas. One very helpful way to do this is of course to video
tape sessions or parts of sessions. I do have several rules I like to
follow when video taping and I thought I'd share them with you today.
These strategies are things I have learned over time, through trail and
error, as the best possible way to effectively use video tapping.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Here are my 3 simple rules
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">1. <b>Only video tape
for parents who have access to watching videos at home: </b>This seems so
basic but I have made the mistake before, assuming parents have a computer to
put a thumb drive in, etc. So before you go video tapping make sure
parents can have access to the video on their own time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">2. <b>Video parts of
sessions: </b>I have found if I keep the recorder going the whole
session, it is HIGHLY unlikely that a parent will have the time to go back and
review the whole video for those 5 or 10 mins of great education and
counseling. SO, I have learned to be selective in when and how I video.
I DO NOT video every session. I tend to video in small increments of time
(5-10 mins here and there). I do not video for EVERY client. I use
video selectively for those clients that benefit from more visual input and
have the time to do so. If a parent is too taxed and too busy they will
not be able to look at the videos anyway and I have found adding that stress
and then eventually guilt the parent feels by not being able to watch video
adds a whole new negative dynamic to therapy that is NOT worth it in my
opinion. So I try to weigh out the pros and cons of video prior to using
it as a teaching tool. Also parents that are very good at learning in
real time and using techniques I teach week to week will not require video as
they "get it" long before they will have a video to watch. So
what do I video (once I determine if video will be an effective teaching tool):</span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I always try to video parent
interactions and hopefully PLAY with their child (this is not about
telling the parent how "wrong" they are in the way they interact
with their child, but rather it’s about making parents aware of the types
of interactions they tend to have with their child. For example, are they always asking
their child questions? Are they
talking "at" rather than "to" their child? This video review is non-judgmental but
educational in nature).<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sibling interactions can also be
very helpful as well if the sibling is older and can understand and learn
to use various techniques to help the younger child.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sometimes taping sibling
interactions is a great way to teach parents HOW TO PLAY with their
language delayed child.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I video intervention strategies
and teachable moments (see below).<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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performing strategies and their child's reaction and improved
communication in those moments.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I video tape "before"
and "after" the use of strategies. Parents love to see how
far they themselves have come in therapy. And I love to show them!<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">3. <b>Video moments
of intervention AND teaching: </b>In my personal experience it is not
effective just to video interactions, then use therapy time to go back and
review interactions stopping the tape to discuss what parents should do next
time. This was how I was initially taught how to use this technique years
ago. The problem I find is that parents don't SEE how the technique can
actually help their child AND they leave therapy feeling worse about how they
interact with their child than empowered. So I like to video for a few
minutes uninterrupted then I jump in, and in real-time I am making suggestions
to parents. As they change the way they are interacting with their child,
they can see, right then and there, how that particular technique will or will
not work for their child. After a few minutes, I stop the tape and review
with parents how their ability to implement simple techniques and strategies
changed their child's interaction. And parents can now take home intervention
strategies THEY were able to implement (under guidance of myself) in therapy to
change and facilitate communication growth in their child at home. So a
parent leaves therapy with examples of strategies on tape AND feeling empowered
b/c they were already able to implement them!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">So that is how I use video
tapping in therapy. I don't use it all the time, but when I do, it is
very effective.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Do you use video in your
therapy sessions? If so, how do you use it? Have any suggestions?
Comment below!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Del Duca, M.S. CCC-SLP, is a pediatric speech-language pathologist in southern,
Arizona. She owns a private practice, Communication Station: Speech
Therapy, PLLC, and has a speech and language blog under the same name.
Maria received her master’s degree from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania.
She has been practicing as an ASHA certified member since 2003 and is an
affiliate of </span></i><a href="http://www.asha.org/SIG/16/"><i><span style="background: white; color: #6eadce; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Special Interest Group 16, School-Based Issues</span></i></a><i><span style="background: white; color: #222222; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">. She has experience in various settings
such as private practice, hospital and school environments and has practiced
speech pathology in NJ, MD, KS and now AZ. Maria has a passion for early
childhood, autism spectrum disorders, rare syndromes, and childhood Apraxia of
speech. For more information,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i><a href="http://communicationstationspeechtx.blogspot.com/"><i><span style="background: white; color: #6eadce; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">visit her blog</span></i></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="background: white; color: #222222; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></i></span><i><span style="background: white; color: #222222; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">or<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/CommunicationStationSpeechTherapyPllc"><i><span style="background: white; color: #6eadce; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">find her on Facebook</span></i></a><i><span style="background: white; color: #222222; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">.</span></i><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> As some of you may know, I am expecting my first baby (It's a BOY!) and will be taking some time off from work and blogging before and after his arrival. During that time, there will be several guest bloggers/SLPs that will be featured on my blog. I am so excited to share all of the amazing, informative posts they have come up with. I can not thank them all enough for taking the time to write these posts! Just another one of the many reasons I love being part of the SLP world. I hope you all enjoy reading everything over the next several weeks. Please feel free to leave comments and post questions.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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Thank you so much to Kristine for allowing me to guest post today! I wish her all the best with her new little one!<br />
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I'm Jen from <a href="http://www.speechuniverse.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Speech Universe</a>. I work in a school that houses three self-contained Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) rooms. We have students who are non verbal as well as some verbal students. I am always looking for ways to increase utterance length in my verbal students. Today, I am going to share three of my go-to activities. I use them all of the time.<br />
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First, is a very simple activity. I pull out a piece of paper (I used my new wipe boards for the pictures) and write a sentence starter on it. Then, I place a picture under the sentence starter. I love to use the <a href="http://linguisystems.com/products/product/display?itemid=10439" target="_blank">Autism & PDD Photo Cards- Wh Questions by Linguisystems</a> for this task. <br />
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I usually use this for working on verbs, but it works for nouns as well. The verb cards also target pronoun use. You could also write, "The boy is ___." or "The girl is ___."<br />
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I have the students repeat at first, and then have them start to state the sentence without my verbal cue. Next, I will erase the sentence and give them a phonemic cue to start the sentence. This has worked really well with my students. I usually parlay the success of these cards into using sequence cards to start creating stories. With the simple three-step cards, the students are usually able to create simple sentences that contain a noun and a verb.<br />
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When I am working with students who have goals to increase nouns, I also like to use sentence starters. I made a big binder of picture cues that I laminated and then put Velcroed. I organized by page and made data sheets for each page. I got the pictures from a cd I have called <a href="http://www.mayer-johnson.com/picture-this-professional-edition" target="_blank">Picture This</a> by Mayer Johnson.<br />
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I just write a simple sentence and then replace the noun card for each trial.<br />
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The third way that I target expanding utterance length with my students with ASD is to use a fun app called First Phrases by Hamiguchi Apps. There is a <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/first-phrases-hd/id473894018?mt=8" target="_blank">full version</a> of this app available for $15.99 and a $0.99 <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/first-phrases-hd-lite/id460291615?mt=8" target="_blank">Lite version</a>. I have used both versions with my students, but quickly upgraded to the full version because of how much I found I was using it!<br />
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This app is great because it is very visual. Students touch each word to create a phrase that contains a noun and a verb. There are a variety of characters and verbs within the app. <br />
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The activity starts with a narrator instructing the student to tell the character what to do. ("Tell the mouse what to do.") This prompt is faded after several trials. The student must then touch each part of the phrase, in order. As each word/part is touched, a pre-recorded voice says the words.<br />
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After the student touches all of the parts in the correct order, the character indicates that he/she will perform the action. ("Ok, I will jump on the bed.") Then the character performs the action in an annimation video. The students love this part!<br />
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After the video, the student is asked to state the phrase. The narrator says, "Now you say it." This prompt is eventually faded back. There are three shapes on the screen. The student touches each shape and says the word on the space. They record the whole phrase. The student can then listen to the recording and watch the animation again.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Happy Fall everyone! Today, we're going to talk about an upcoming holiday- Thanksgiving!Thank you so much to Kristine the opportunity to post today and talk about this fun stuff! This will hopefully be a quick little post filled with some fun and simple activities for you to do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First, let's start off with Thanksgiving vocabulary words. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Turkey, Stuffing, Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes, Corn, Gravy, Pie, Family, Pilgrims, Native Americans, Pumpkins, Thankful/Grateful, Biscuits/Rolls, Together, Celebrate, (insert any food item here)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm sure there are many more words that I could put up there, but those are generally the main ones that I know of. I recognize every family has their own traditions in terms of food or activities on Thanksgiving, so be sure to discuss those. If your kids have articulation goals, have them practice words with their sound in them. Make it fun, though- have everyone at the table practice some words!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then, you can do some language fun! You can do almost anything with language. Here are some ideas for you:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Talk about your favorite memories or traditions with Thanksgiving. Talk about what you have done in the past, what you are doing now, and what you have done in the future.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Name categories. For example, name foods that are eaten at Thanksgiving. Name fall colors. Name games that people play on Thanksgiving.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. Decorate. Talk about the colors, shapes, sizes, textures, etc of the things you're decorating with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. Cook or bake together. Discuss the steps needed to make the given item. Use words such as stir, mix, whisk, etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then, you can work on phonological awareness. Have the kids (or anyone at the table) name things that start with "T" (like turkey). Everyone has to name things that start with "T". Then, pick another letter. You can do a similar game with rhyming.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For SLPs, these activities will work in school as well. Just pretend you're sitting around the table, having a meal together!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope you enjoyed those quick and simple activities! You can find me over at </span><a href="http://homesweetspeechroom.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Home Sweet Speech Room</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, on </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/homesweetspeechroom"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Facebook</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, and on </span><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Carissa-Ten-Hoeve"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Teachers Pay Teachers</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Are you ready for Day 4 of my blog birthday extravaganza?! I know I am!! The next AWESOME giveaway is actual for TWO different products! You have the opportunity to win a <b>custom hand sanitizer</b> by Tina at Scrapaddict30 on Etsy AND a <b>badge holder</b> by Abbie from UnderTheChunkyBeadTree. You can view all the details of the hand sanitizer <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/156652516/super-cute-custompersonalized-teacher?ref=shop_home_active" target="_blank">HERE</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ok this next giveaway item is by far my favorite! I personally own two of them and I know tons of fellow SLPs have grabbed them as well. The awesome quote, "I help people communicate, What's your Super Power?" came from CC and the cups were designed by Dana at 2MBowtique on Etsy. You can check them out <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/162477135/personalized-tumbler-cups-i-help-people?ref=shop_home_active" target="_blank">here</a>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hey everyone!! I hope you are all enjoying the guest posts on my blog while I am on a little "maternity leave". I am really enjoying spending time with my little man. Although I am still on "leave", I had to make time to celebrate my 1st Blog Birthday!!! I can't believe it's been an entire year that I've been blogging. It has been a wonderful experience and I am so blessed to have so many amazing followers!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To kick off the week, the people over at <b>Smarty Ears</b> have given me not ONE but TWO codes for their amazing app, <b>Language Empires</b>. I own this app and it is a MUST HAVE! My students absolutely love it!! If you would like a chance to win this app, enter on the Rafflecopter at the bottom of this post!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Monday:</b> Lanyard from <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/ewindbiglerdesign?ref=pr_faveshops" target="_blank">ewinbiglerdesign</a> on Etsy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Tuesday:</b> Tumbler cup from Dana at <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/2MBowtique?ref=search_shop_redirect" target="_blank">2MBowtique</a> on Etsy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As some of you may know, I am expecting my first baby
(It's a BOY!) and will be taking some time off from work and blogging before
and after his arrival. During that time, there will be several guest
bloggers/SLPs that will be featured on my blog. I am so excited to share all of
the amazing, informative posts they have come up with. I can not thank them all
enough for taking the time to write these posts! Just another one of the many
reasons I love being part of the SLP world. I hope you all enjoy reading everything
over the next several weeks. Please feel free to leave comments and post
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I'm so happy to be able to post here for Kristine while she is getting ready for mommy hood! And I have a great trick for a cheap therapy material...DIY dry erase boards!<br />
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Did you know that shower board works as dry erase board? Yeah, I didn't know that until one of my teacher friends told me. In fact, I never even knew what shower board was. Or that it existed. All she did was go to Home Depot and they cut some for her...for free! And apparently super cheap! Anywho, she gave me some that she had leftover....I was stoked. But it is just a square piece of not-so-pretty board...<br />
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Makeover! I took all 5 boards and grabbed a roll of my fave...Duck Tape! Chevron, of course! All I did was tape each of the edges...super easy!<br />
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And voila! Pretty and cheap dry erase boards! I have one enough for each of my kids to have one in my room (I don't have any groups larger than 5). I love them!</div>
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<i>Jenn is a school SLP in Florida, working with children PK to 8th grade, and the author of the blog <a href="http://www.crazyspeechworld.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Crazy Speech World</a>. You can also follow her on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CrazySpeechWorld" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/SLPgoneWiLd" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://pinterest.com/nolesgirl019/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a>, <a href="http://instagram.com/crazyspeechworld/" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, and <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Slp-Gone-Wild" target="_blank">TPT</a>.</i></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17745148010077995581noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527798497218471978.post-87344777285465339942013-10-24T08:00:00.000-04:002013-10-24T08:00:03.706-04:00 Language Development and Poetry<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We remember the nursery rhymes and songs, we all had our favorites that we would sing or hum over and over. I was 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" fan. We didn't know it then but those rhymes and songs were helping our language development. Rhyming is an early phonological awareness skill children use to distinguish units of speech. Recognizing rhymes is crucial to reading development ( Sigal ) and poetry can help readers develop a broad range of fluency skills ( Robertson ) as well.
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<a href="http://www.asha.org/uploadedFiles/Build-Your-Childs-Skills-Kindergarten-to-Second-Grade.pdf#search=%22poetry%22">Build Your Childs Skills Kindergarten to Second Grade</a> by DeAnne Owre and Martha Brennan<a href="http://www.asha.org/uploadedFiles/Build-Your-Childs-Skills-Kindergarten-to-Second-Grade.pdf#search=%22poetry%22">
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<a href="http://blog.asha.org/2011/02/07/encouraging-rhyming-skills/">Encouraging Rhymning Skills</a> ( ASHAsphere blog post by Stephanie Sigal)
<a href="http://www.asha.org/Publications/leader/2009/090414/f090414a1.htm">Connecting Reading Fluency and Oral Language for Student Success</a> by Shari Robertson</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As some of you may know, I am expecting my first baby
(It's a BOY!) and will be taking some time off from work and blogging before
and after his arrival. During that time, there will be several guest
bloggers/SLPs that will be featured on my blog. I am so excited to share all of
the amazing, informative posts they have come up with. I can not thank them all
enough for taking the time to write these posts! Just another one of the many
reasons I love being part of the SLP world. I hope you all enjoy reading everything
over the next several weeks. Please feel free to leave comments and post
questions.</span><o:p></o:p><br />
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do more push-in speech therapy than our traditional pull-out speech therapy.
The issue is that push-in can mean different things to different people, and
not a lot of people understand what to do when they push in to a classroom.
There are pros and cons to every aspect <a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>of therapy, but
push-in therapy does offer some great benefits. Some pros to push-in speech
therapy include easier generalization/carryover to the “real world”, teaching
teachers and paraprofessionals (or other administration) how to work on speech
therapy goals when the SLP is not present, modeling proper speech and language
skills in a student’s natural environment, and more collaboration between
professionals (advanceweb.com). While all of these pros sound great, one part
that many SLPs struggle with is how to push in to a classroom. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Push-in is done differently in each grade, and I
happen to be most familiar with the preschool/Kindergarten age. I typically
push-in two days a week. On one day I will do a class lesson for about 20-30
minutes using some of the activities I will describe below. On the other day I
will push-in and follow the child’s lead, play with the toys the child wants to
play with, and try to expand his/her language or target some specific goals. It’s
not as easy as it sounds, but it gets easier after some practice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">1. I use the book that the classroom is reading
that month and create/use activities from the book to expand their language.
Many of my preschool classrooms read the same book every day for one month, and
I am able to take that book, expand it, and have them do some great language
activities to accompany the book. Some activities include following directions,
acting out the story (with or without props), and having the students name
objects according to a specific concept: colors, shapes, etc. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Example: This month my
preschoolers are reading Goodnight Moon. I will use this book during my class
lesson to target language goals. I typically re-read the book even if they had
already read it that day (repetition is good). I may ask some WH-questions
during the reading of the book. I may also ask the students one at a time to
name everything on that page that is green (or red, or a circle, or an animal,
etc.). This is a good time to target some informal articulation since you can
ask the specific student to name something that starts with whatever sound they
are working on. I may also get little props and have some of the students act
out the story. Then I may instruct them to follow specific directions (I
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choice time. I will have two or three students work with me at one time and
play the game with me. This is great for teaching turn taking, expanding
sentences, naming objects/animals, and answering WH-questions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">3. Velcro ball and mittens (I got this idea from
Pinterest, but I cannot find the original pin now). I buy a bunch of little kid
($1) mittens during the winter months. I put some Velcro pieces on a whiffle. I
have everyone sit in a circle with three pictures turned over in front of them.
I gently toss or roll (depending on each child’s physical abilities) the ball
and they have to “catch” the ball with their mittens (the Velcro sticks to the
gloves). When they catch the ball, they turn a picture over, name the picture,
and either describe it or answer questions about it. Once their turn is over, I
have them toss/roll the ball back to me (or to a friend).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">4. Pronoun Dolls – A beginner’s version of this
activity: I have pictures of a boy and girl paper doll with a magnetic backing.
I place these pictures on the white board in the room. The student, when
his/her name is called, picks an object out of a tissue box/bag/hat and names
it. Then the student has to decide if the object goes with the boy or girl. The
student then sticks the object next to/under the boy or girl and has to say the
correct sentence “He/She has a _____”. A more advanced version of this is to
have the (dressed) paper dolls on the board and have magnets of clothing that
each paper doll is wearing. Then the student has to say “He/She is wearing a
_______”. You could also do this with pictures of the paper dolls holding items
forcing the student to use the correct he/she verb instead of choosing which
verb to say.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this when she pushed-in to the preschool classrooms, so I have decided to do it
this year as well. Read one of the Old Lady Who Swallowed A ________ books with
the class and create an Old Lady page for each student (a picture of the old
lady with a big circle for her belly – see picture below). At the top of the
page it says, “There was an old lady who swallowed a ____________.” At the
bottom of the page it says, “I don’t know why she swallowed that ______________.”
I have little squares of each item that the old lady has swallowed and I allow
each student to select a square from a paper bag/hat/tissue box. Once the
student has selected a square, the student then has to match that picture to
find another of the same (I usually just carry a bunch around and have them try
to find the match). Then the student has to glue the two squares on the blank
lines and draw/color a picture of that item in the circle (the old lady’s
belly). I have each student say their page (with help) and then I bind the
pages together and create a book. I leave the books in the classroom for the
students to practice on their own!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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wonderful in the classroom. There are so many things you can do with it, and
the book that accompanies the EET is full of worksheets and ideas! I love using
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pong balls, instruct the student to identify the emotion on the ping pong ball,
and then shoot it to make a “basket” (I use a large tissue box with the hole
cut wider or even a cardboard box/bucket). No, I am not having them try to get
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You could even put pictures on the ping pong balls or write words if your
students can read. This is a lot of fun, but just know that you will have Ping-Pong
balls flying all over the place!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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bring in pictures (or if you can do real-time objects that’s even better) for
categorization. I like to team up with the PT on this activity. I will have the
student pick an object/picture out of a hat and then hop/crawl/crab walk/etc.
to the correct category area and place the object/picture in the right spot.
For example, I would place a group of animals to the left, clothes to the
right, and food in the middle. I would have the student select an object out of
a hat (say it’s an animal), and then that student has to do the activity the PT
says to do and place the animal in the animal category. It’s a lot of fun and
gets in some good language practice!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I hope these ideas are helpful to you as you
push-in to the classroom. I want to hear from others! What do you do when you
push-in to classrooms? Do you have any advice for those just starting out doing
push-in services?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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blog covers a variety of speech and language topics including monthly homework
ideas, tips for working with preschool and elementary-aged students, and
various speech and language activities available for free and for sale. Find
out more by visiting their Facebook, Twitter, and blog page!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">For my first three years as an SLP, I was assigned to work
for a special education co-op an hour away from my home. My assignment was to provide services to all
parochial school students in two counties, so I ended up travelling to 10
schools in a week, with my office in another building. Needless to say, this required some serious
organization skills! I wanted to share
with you some of the tips and ideas that helped me through those years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">One thing that helped me considerably was to leave a small
box of materials at each school. For
some schools, this was a school supply box, while at others (where I had more
students) I used larger plastic tubs. I
worked primarily with elementary students, although I had a few preschoolers
and middle-schoolers as well. Some of my
must-haves included:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Hand sanitizer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Kleenex (travel pack)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Pencils<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Highlighter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Box of crayons<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Index cards<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Glue stick<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Finger puppets <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Dice<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Play-doh (mini tub)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Mini-stapler<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Small reward chart with all the
student’s names on it (I kept track of homework, attendance, etc. and gave
small prizes after ten stars. This often
was as simple as a blank index card where I drew the stars on with a pen.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Small stuffed animal(s)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Markers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Small clip-on basketball hoop and
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Extra office supplies (pens, rubber
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Deck of playing cards <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Bouncy ball<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">For the things I carried around with me every day, I used a
large tote bag. (I tried a rolling cart
when I began, but the problem was most of my schools were older and had steps
instead of ramps to get into the building, and at several schools I had to work
on the second floor. If you don’t have
this problem, I would definitely suggest a rolling cart!) These essentials included my clipboard,
binder with all of my caseload information, homework binder, small travel games
(Connect-4, Uno, and Hi-Ho Cherry-O being three of my favorites),
stopwatch/counter, and a small bag of prizes.
I also carried around my own little stimulus books for different target
areas that eventually inspired </span><a href="http://www.superduperinc.com/products/view.aspx?pid=TA120&s=articulation-quick-take-along-#.UiJDez__7Hk"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Super Duper’s Take Along</span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> series. (Trust me, their version is a lot prettier
than mine! And they expanded my idea so
there are even more areas than I created originally – mine was primarily
articulation and basic language skills.)
I got an iPad in my second or third year, and this was a huge
lifesaver! I didn’t have to carry around
as many materials or games, and made life much easier.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I was fortunate enough to have a “home base” that had a desk,
computer, and small amount of storage. I
was able to arrange my schedule that I could be there every day around lunch
time, along with one afternoon per week.
This was where I kept track of data, wrote reports, made phone calls,
and planned for upcoming therapy sessions.
I also kept many of my books here, so I was able to switch out materials
from my homework binder as needed (usually about once a month).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">One major thing I had to get used to as a highly mobile SLP
was I had to learn to be very flexible.
I used whatever space was available at the time I was at the school –
this covered a wide range of spaces including an art room, library, and storage
closet – not to mention the hallway when I got desperate! Since I only visited each school once per
week, sometimes the teachers would forget that I was there, and schedule tests
and other important class events for the times I was scheduled to take their
students. I learned to rearrange my
schedule on the fly as needed. Sometimes
as I drove across town I would run into trains that blocked the road for twenty
minutes at a time, which meant I didn’t have time to prep anything when I got
to a school, and I had to be ready to go the minute I stepped into the school
building.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Since I spent so much time in my car every day, keeping it
organized was a must! I bought several
storage crates to keep in the backseat and trunk to store materials that I
would use occasionally, so I could just grab them and go. Because this got messy after a while, I tried
to reorganize my car about every month or so to make sure things went back in
the right bin, and to switch materials out that I wasn’t using as much. I kept several empty reusable shopping bags
within easy reach in case I wanted to grab a couple of materials for the next
school, but didn’t have room in my tote bag for.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> A few other
random pieces of advice for travelling SLPs:
Don’t store crayons in your car.
They will melt. When they melt,
they will make a huge mess! Also, invest
in serious weather gear. When you tromp
across huge parking lots and in between buildings most of the day, you will
want a good raincoat, umbrella, heavy winter coat, and snow boots.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Being a travelling SLP does have some disadvantages, but it
is definitely doable! The experiences I
had in my three years of being highly mobile have definitely made me a better
SLP for the years to come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As some of you may know, I am expecting my first baby
(It's a BOY!) and will be taking some time off from work and blogging before
and after his arrival. During that time, there will be several guest
bloggers/SLPs that will be featured on my blog. I am so excited to share all of
the amazing, informative posts they have come up with. I can not thank them all
enough for taking the time to write these posts! Just another one of the many
reasons I love being part of the SLP world. I hope you all enjoy reading everything
over the next several weeks. Please feel free to leave comments and post
questions.</span></div>
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Thanks Kristine for having me today! I use books in therapy a lot
because it helps give me a starting point with therapy, especially
with my language kids. Once I choose a book that I really enjoy, I
spend some time <em><span style="color: #8834cb;">dabbling</span>
</em>on Pinterest and TPT looking for great materials & ideas for
therapy! Today, I am going to share LOTS of ideas, and resources you
can use in therapy with the book The Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything By Linda Williams.
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Here is what I found online (BTW, most
are FREE)!!</div>
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<li><a href="http://chapelhillsnippets.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-little-old-lady-who-was-not-afraid.html">Chapel
Hill Snippets </a>found a great You Tube video on how you can read the
book to your students. She also made some boardmaker visuals, which I
am going to use with my non-verbal and limited language kiddos!</li>
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<li>Toddler Approved did a<a href="http://www.toddlerapproved.com/2011/10/book-of-week-little-old-lady-who-wasnt.html">
Book of the week </a>blog post on how to use to have fun with this
book.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.playingwithwords365.com/2011/10/the-little-old-lady-who-was-not-afraid-of-anything-great-fall-book-for-language/">Playing
With Words 365</a> has an awesome post about how she reads the book to
her students. She also shares some cute extension activities and fun
preschool aged songs you can sing after reading the story!</li>
<li>I found a <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Mini-Unit-for-The-Little-Old-Lady-Who-Wasnt-Afraid-of-Anything-364697">Mini
Unit </a>on TPT from <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Relax-With-A-Great-Book">Relax
With a Great Book </a>that is FREE and has some great comprehension
and writing activities.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-Little-Old-Lady-Who-Was-Not-Afraid-of-Anything-Speech-Language-Companion-834407">Speech
Language Pirates </a>created a fun pack that I bought during the big
Back To School TPT sale! It has great graphics and extension
activities that tie in nicely with this fun story.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/The-Speech-Path">The
Speech Path </a>has a free <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Mini-Book-Tutorial-647535">Mini
Book Tutorial </a>on how to make your own mini story book. You can
also access this FREE <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Minibook-Template-215860">Minibook
template</a> that you could have your students make as a visual story
book to help them with retelling the elements from the book. Have
your students practice using adjectives to describe what the boots,
shirts, pants, hat look like!</li>
<li>Grab your flashlight from home, and bring in real life story
elements (i.e. jack o lantern, boots, shirt, etc). Turn out the
lights in your room and read the book by flashlight. As you come
across each story element, let one of your students try to find where
the boots or shirt are located in the room. Only do this activity if
your students are up for the adventure and won't be scared of the
dark!</li>
<li><a href="http://www.thehometeacher.org/2011/09/little-old-lady-who-wasnt-afraid-of.html">The
Home Teacher</a> has a lot of great ideas for scarecrow crafts to
incorporate with the book!</li>
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What are some of the ways YOU use this book in your therapy room? I
hope this post has inspired you and helped lighten your lesson
planning load during the busy Fall season!! Thanks again Kristine for
having me. I hope you are enjoying motherhood. Visit my <a href="http://www.thedabblingspeechie.com/">blog</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Thedabblingspeechie?ref=hl">facebook</a>,
<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Thedabblingspeechie">TPT</a>,
<a href="http://instagram.com/thedabblingspeechie#">instagram</a> and
<a href="http://pinterest.com/dabblingspeech/">Pinterest</a> for more
ideas and resources.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17745148010077995581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527798497218471978.post-7428692320381737312013-10-15T08:00:00.000-04:002013-10-15T08:00:12.270-04:00Story Elements for SLPs!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">As some of you may know, I am expecting my first baby
(It's a BOY!) and will be taking some time off from work and blogging before
and after his arrival. During that time, there will be several guest
bloggers/SLPs that will be featured on my blog. I am so excited to share all of
the amazing, informative posts they have come up with. I can not thank them all
enough for taking the time to write these posts! Just another one of the many
reasons I love being part of the SLP world. I hope you all enjoy reading everything
over the next several weeks. Please feel free to leave comments and post
questions.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The next guest post is written by Laura at All Y'all Need!
Enjoy! </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Hi! I'm Laura from <a href="http://www.allyallneed.com/" target="_blank">All Y'all Need</a>, and I'm so excited for Kristine! My first-born is a son, so I have a special place in my heart for baby boys!<br />
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There are three of us in <a href="http://www.allyallneed.com/" target="_blank">All Y'all Need</a> - me, an SLP, my librarian sister, and Kg teacher cousin. I have loved working with my sister and cousin, and they have had a huge influence on how I've extended literacy into speech/language therapy.<br />
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Why literacy? For me, it's <a href="http://www.asha.org/publications/literacy/" target="_blank">ASHA</a> and <a href="http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index2.aspx?id=6148" target="_blank">TEKS</a>. I'm from Texas, and Texas didn't play in the Common Core sandbox. TEKS has made me aware that I really need to be using a LOT more literacy with my oral language students to help them out communication wise. And guess what? I found a few things I'm going to talk about in <a href="http://www.corestandards.org/" target="_blank">Common Core</a>, too!<br />
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One strategy I have learned is story elements. Story elements are exactly what you think they are - the parts of the book (title, author, etc) and the story structure (beginning, middle, and end). I love to use books, so breaking them down into details is a natural step.<br />
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My sister introduced me to story element cards. Here's a picture of some examples:<br />
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I love story element cards in artic/language groups, and they can even be used for fluency. When I'm introducing a book, I pass around the cards according to goals. Language is pretty easy. If a student is working on "where" questions, he gets the Setting card. And so on.<br />
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For articulation, I look at sounds. For example, if a student is working on /k/, he would get the Character card and work on saying things like, "The old lady is the main <u>ch</u>ara<u>c</u>ter."<br />
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I have a few fluency students in my artic/language groups. I give the fluency students cards with sibilants to practice prolonging the sound. For example, the fluency student might get the Author card to practice saying, "The aaauuthor is Lucille Colandro".<br />
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Another benefit of story element cards is that students have written words to refer to. Instead of just telling them what they will need to know from the story, I'm able to give them a written reminder, and they still have to use good listening.<br />
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I can address artic/language goals through TEKS. TEKS requires parts of stories and discussions of those for K-5, the grades I serve. How great is that? Well, not so much if you're using Common Core. In looking at ELA-Literacy areas, K-5 all have standards related to reading stories, including:<br />
* K-1 - retell familiar stories, including key details and identify character, setting and main events.<br />
* 2 - ask and answer who, what, where, when, why and how questions<br />
* 3-5 - describe characters and summarize text. For 5th, compare and contrast characters.<br />
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To address different needs and grades, I'm offering Story Elements in Color & B&W. The story elements come in color and B&W, and there are also color pages with supporting graphics. <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Story-Element-Cards-in-Color-and-BW-864053" target="_blank">Story Elements</a> is in our store on TpT, <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/All-Yall-Need" target="_blank">All Y'all Need</a>. It is usually $1.50, but it will be free for this week, so grab it up and leave feedback!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17745148010077995581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527798497218471978.post-65432007375765536642013-10-14T08:00:00.000-04:002013-10-14T08:00:14.151-04:00Favorite Toys for Eliciting Communication<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; line-height: 24px;">My absolute 'go-to' for therapy are the Peek-A-Blocks. I love them and have rounded up quite a group of them. I grab them at Goodwill every chance I get. They make a set of alphabet, food and vehicle blocks. The items inside are all early vocabulary items (plane, duck, banana, etc.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As some of you may know, I am expecting my first baby
(It's a BOY!) and will be taking some time off from work and blogging before
and after his arrival. During that time, there will be several guest
bloggers/SLPs that will be featured on my blog. I am so excited to share all of
the amazing, informative posts they have come up with. I can not thank them all
enough for taking the time to write these posts! Just another one of the many
reasons I love being part of the SLP world. I hope you all enjoy reading everything
over the next several weeks. Please feel free to leave comments and post
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I graduated in May of 2012, I had been searching for a
job for almost six months with no luck. Fortunately, I was offered a job two
hours away from the city I lived in, and two hours away from my new husband.
When I started in August we had only been married for two months. However, this
is not a post about long distance relationships, but rather how a less than
ideal job can be quite wonderful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was nervous taking a job that required me to move so far
away. Also, much of the job was going to be really new to me. I had never
worked with the birth to three population before, nor had I worked with middle
school and high school students. It was intimidating! On top of it all, it was
a traveling job working for an educational service unit and not directly for a
school. While I was excited to even be offered a job I was apprehensive about
the less than ideal situation I had dreamed my first job would be. After a lot
of thought and many questions to my potential employers, I took the job.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My first two days were nearly impossible because I was so
overwhelmed and homesick (which is say a lot since I lived by myself in Europe
for the majority of my college career). My job also required me to do a lot of
driving. I averaged about 1000 miles every week and I was covering two school
districts and six sites. It was overwhelming and it was hard. I was not use to
the long hours (despite the intensity of grad school), nor was I happy about
living by myself in a town where I knew no one. I enjoy challenges but this was
almost too much. Many days I was going through the motions and hoping that I
was doing things correctly. My CFY supervisors, coworkers and online SLP
community were a saving grace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But guess what?!?! Things got better. I found that the drive
could be quite beautiful;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it was a
wonderful time to think, decompress and or catch up with friends and family
over the phone. My students also kept me going. No matter where you go kids are
kids. No matter their background, socio-economic status or verification they
may or may not have, the students look up to and rely on you. Their smiles and
accomplishments helped me through the tough times. They are one of the main
reasons I had gone into the SLP field to begin with. In addition, I was
extremely fortunate to have the most wonderful colleagues who went out of their
way to make me feel at home and a super supportive husband who believed in me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My job, though less than ideal initially, was just perfect.
I was able to grow and learn so much and the challenges were a blessing.
Although I have changed jobs I think of my first job very fondly. I would like
to think that through it all, it made me a better Speech-Language Pathologist.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Plan lessons ahead of time with a variety of target goals. For example, many language games and materials can also be used in articulation and fluency treatment; these are great for carry-over</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Pick one set of materials to bring in, limit the number of things you have with you. Since I have so many tpt materials it was important to limit myself to a few things at a time. Picking a theme for that week or for the two weeks helped limit what I brought in</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Get a nice rolling bag. I was lucky enough to get a huge scrapbook bag from my mom with a lot of pockets and places to hold things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-BOOKS, BOOKS, BOOKS! I love books. They can be used for every single goal you can imagine to target. Students also love having a book read to them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Have go to binders with quick worksheets and activities. I have binders with coloring sheets for artic students each separated by sounds and binders with drill sheets of vocab words, homonyms, antonyms, categories, figurative language and much more. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Encourage the student to bring in curriculum materials. Is that student missing social studies everyday? Have them bring in their book and read or work on comprehension questions. No materials needed!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Try to have a designated spot for data and or paperwork so you don't loose it or forget it. I carried around a three inch binder with everything. It was heavy and cumbersome but it was necessary to make sure I was on top of paperwork</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Utilize travel time in a positive manner. I often used my travel time to plan, call parents for reminders of at home visits or for my own reflection time. Podcasts were also wonderful to keep my brain engaged because I was learning something new everyday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Be strict on schedule times. If you have to travel to a lot of schools be sure to tell them exactly what days and when you are going to be there. I found that many teachers were much more flexible when I explained the traveling situation and that I could not be going back and forth between schools.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Thanks to Kristine from LiveLoveSpeech for having me do a
guest post on her blog. My name is Carly Fowler and I am a second year SLP
living in Omaha, NE and (still) traveling to a job an hour away although I am
only at one site this year. You can follow me on </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/HappilySLP"><span style="color: blue;">Facebook</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> and visit my </span><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Carly-Fowler"><span style="color: blue;">tpt store</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.</span></div>
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Now this will take some planning as you will need a good place to store the ice cream. Last year, we bought all KINDS of toppings. Have the students describe the candies, compare and contrast the ingredients. You can have the students label the ingredients and categorize them. Remember you don't have to do this task with every group you have during the day. Use it as an incentive day or break the ice cream days up into 1/2 days or one session a day to make it easier on you.<br />
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3. Do laundry!<br />
Now this might seem crazy if you don't have an extra washer and dryer around! Make believe! Get two large moving boxes. Cut out two holes in the side and BOOM you have a washer and dryer. Take an empty bottle of laundry soap, clothes, a laundry basket, dryer sheets and towels/sheets. Have the students sort the clothes. Have them pretend to put soap into the washer and have them place clothes in the "washer". Then set a timer and have them move the clothes from the washer to the dryer and place a dryer cloth in. Then have the students fold the clothes. Its funny the conversations you get while students are doing these tasks too. When I do this task, I level the task up and down depending on the student's levels. You can have older student write down what they expect will happen, what could go wrong and what they would do about it. It's always fun to have the students read their papers after you complete the task to see what they forgot to write down.<br />
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4. Make peanut butter and jelly sandwich's!<br />
This is a neat task because I have one student tell another student how they want their sandwich made. This makes the student responsible for being specific and makes it more important for the student assembling the sandwich to follow directions. It also allows for temper control opportunities if students have difficulty socially. If you have a group right before lunch this is a good activity to do!<br />
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5. Make jewelry!<br />
You can get beads for real cheap at any craft store and some thread. Make up directions on a sheet of paper and make each of the directions different. Have the students read the directions and have them place the beads on accordingly.
For younger kids:
1. Have them give toy animals a bath!
Bring in a tub, water, bubbles, and some toy animals. Have them give them a bath by following directions. Have each pour some water in the tub or bucket, then soap then have them wash and dry the toy animals. You get a lot of stimulation out of this activity!
2. Follow directions color sheets!
Give them each a color sheet that is exactly the same. Have the make polka dots in certain areas, use the color blue in a different area or have them draw stars on the hat. Be creative and they will enjoy doing something hands on!<br />
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I hope you enjoyed this post and I hope you can use some of these functional activities to really get some language discussions going on in your speech rooms! Thanks Kristine for letting me guest post on your wonderful blog!
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> As some of you may know, I am expecting my first baby (It's a BOY!) and will be taking some time off from work and blogging before and after his arrival. During that time, there will be several guest bloggers/SLPs that will be featured on my blog. I am so excited to share all of the amazing, informative posts they have come up with. I can not thank them all enough for taking the time to write these posts! Just another one of the many reasons I love being part of the SLP world. I hope you all enjoy reading everything over the next several weeks. Please feel free to leave comments and post questions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Hey everyone, it's AMY from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MissThriftySlp">Miss Thrifty SLP</a>. This is my first time writing a guest post and I can't begin to describe how thrilled I am! In preparation for the school year or other big events, I find it is a good idea to reflect upon tasks that you find challenging. It could be the ever daunting task of organization, efficient ways to bill Medicaid or arrange schedules, tackling Response to Intervention (RtI) concerns, or just surviving your first year as an SLP. The list could certainly go on and on depending on the topic...but I don't want you to feel overwhelmed by all of those possibilities. It's something that I fall prey to all too easily myself unless I take the time to really process through each concern. The largest of my concerns as a school-based SLP is to ensure that my therapy sessions compliment what my students are expected to do academically. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It all boils down to the Common Core. The main idea of the Core concept is that students build their knowledge upon the foundation of the previous year(s) of education all the way back to what is started in kindergarten/pre-K. It shows us what typically developing children are expected to do within the classroom. In North Carolina, we also have <a href="http://www.ncpublicschools.org/acre/standards/extended/">Extended Content Standards</a> for students with "Most Significant Cognitive Disabilities" that adapt the Core Standards to something more manageable. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Oral language is a major component in the Standards (even the adapted ones) throughout the grade levels. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This gives SLPs ample opportunity to collaborate with classroom teachers as we have a great amount of expertise that can assist them. They, in turn, can help us understand the objectives of their particular grade level (ie. giving us their lesson plans) since the Common Core doesn't have a specific curriculum. My summer training in Reading Foundations has driven this point home. Our teachers are being taught the structure of language and how it impacts both reading and writing. I'm here to support them as they transition this new knowledge into practice this year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">So how does this collaboration transfer to my therapy sessions?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Well, I initially use a set of <u>teacher checklist </u><a href="http://chapelhillsnippets.blogspot.com/2012/04/common-core-teacher-rating-scales-for.html" style="text-decoration: underline;">forms</a> created by the wonderful SLPs of Chapel-Hill Carrboro City Schools that align with the Core to demonstrate academic need during assessments. I find that this is a great foundation for me to use with results from standardized assessments in creating IEP goals. Once I have the IEP goals written based off of the student's demonstrated needs, I can look at the Standards/Extended Standards to see if there's a correlation. You may not always have a correlation between the two depending upon the needs of the individual student and that's okay as long as you understand how it's impacting his/her academic performance. Once the IEP goals are agreed upon by the team, it is time to get down to business! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><u>Strategies</u>: Talk to the classroom teacher to see what strategies work and don't work for the student in the classroom. If you know something that works well in therapy, work together to see that it gets implemented in the classroom too. Consistency is something that we all need no matter our age. I find that brainstorming with other staff members helps me learn new tactics for my "toolbox."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Make your lessons Systematic, Explicit, and Multi-sensory (SEM). This is advice they stress in Reading Foundations and I completely concur. </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Systematic- It all boils down to having a set plan which is your IEP. You are constantly assessing students based on their daily performance towards their goals in therapy. The IEP goals and recent data are used to develop the next therapy session's work. I find that this is easier for me when I use a monthly theme to target goals. Classroom teachers can give me their lesson plans so I know what topics they are covering and key vocabulary words for that unit. It's much more beneficial for students if you can provide extra repetition of these key concepts in another manner. That being said, even the best lesson plans can go awry so always try to be flexible too. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Explicit- Explain what your expectations are for your students using words that they can understand. If they know what you want them to do, they will have an easier time of seeing a purpose in coming to speech. (Granted, you have to get them past the "games, games, games" stage.) I find that this is much easier with my older students. I can tell them that we're going to use a color coding system to help remember the parts of speech and that eventually they need to do it by themselves. My articulation students know what sounds they are working on and they write their own tallies to compare with mine. My students also know that I want them to learn and have fun in my classroom.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Multi-sensory- This is probably my favorite part of being an SLP. I love to do all kinds of wacky things and explore strategies to help my students learn as evident in many of my posts. My favorite thing is to use <a href="http://thethriftyslp.blogspot.com/2013/02/got-stuffed-animals-lets-teach-some.html">stuffed animals/puppets</a> to bring basic concepts to life. I also love using songs/chants to help all of my students. You're never too cool for a catchy (yet goofy) tune. Will my students remember me after their "graduation" from elementary school? Probably not, but I know that there will be at least one random thing I did with them that they'll probably recall years from now.</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">There's no rule that says we must make Common Core boring in our speech rooms. Learning should be fun for our students. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Want some more information about the Common Core? Check out:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">American Speech Language Hearing Association- <a href="http://www.asha.org/docs/html/PI2010-00317.html">Roles & Responsibilities of SLPs in the Schools</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">American Speech Language Hearing Association- <a href="http://www.asha.org/SLP/schools/Key-Issues.htm">Common Core State Standards Key Issues</a> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Perry Flynn- <a href="http://speech-language-pathology-audiology.advanceweb.com/SharedResources/Downloads/2013/022513/ADVANCECommonCore.pdf">Common Core Standards & the SLP: ADVANCED webinar</a>. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Cherokee County School District's powerpoint presentation on <a href="http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/Curriculum-Instruction-and-Assessment/Special-Education-Services/Documents/2013%20Sp%20Leadership%20Mtg/SLPs%20Role%20in%20the%20Common%20Core%20State%20Standards.pdf">The SLP's Role in Common Core State Standards</a>. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">NC DPI- <a href="http://www.ncpublicschools.org/acre/standards/extended/">Extended Content Standards</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Sublime Speech- <a href="http://sublimespeech.blogspot.com/2013/02/slps-common-core-state-standards.html">SLPs and the Common Core Standards: Fitting It All Together</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Chapel-Hill Carrboro City Schools- Teacher Checklist </span><a href="http://chapelhillsnippets.blogspot.com/2012/04/common-core-teacher-rating-scales-for.html" style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">forms</a></li>
<li>Common Core Goal Bank- <a href="http://thethriftyslp.blogspot.com/p/common-core-speaking.html">Speaking & Listening</a> (includes Articulation, Voice, & Fluency)</li>
<li>Common Core Goal Bank- <a href="http://thethriftyslp.blogspot.com/p/common-core-language.html">Language</a> (includes Pragmatics & Basic Concepts)</li>
<li>Common Core Goal Bank- <a href="http://thethriftyslp.blogspot.com/p/common-core-reading.html">Reading</a></li>
<li>NCSIP- <a href="http://www.ncsip.org/reading/research_to_practice.php">Reading Foundations</a></li>
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Want to read more? Check out <a href="http://thethriftyslp.blogspot.com/">Miss Thrifty SLP</a>'s for more thoughts on the Common Core and thrifty ideas for therapy materials.<br />
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