Since moving to the education side of speech language pathology from the more fast pace, demanding medical side I have more time to sit and laugh at the funny things that one might have to do in the name of “rehabilitation” when working in a skilled nursing facility. Today I am off work for Memorial Day and after working this…
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Teaching Vocabulary and Remembering it! Globes and Maps
On Monday, I walked in to the building and there stood the Persistent Principal, smiling ear to ear, holding a GLOBE! The kids were huddled around her throwing questions at her. She was pointing out the land versus the water and helping them find where they would be on this globe. As the different children came in that morning, we…
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What’s Outside My Door: April
April Showers, right? Not so in Ms Gardenia’s Speech Room! We have had TOO much rain and SO many cloudy days here. It was a sunny day the day I decided to decorate my interactive language wall for SPRING! With school wrapping up soon, I wanted to do a couple of sessions specifically focusing on language skills using pronouns….
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Teaching Vocabulary One Morning at a Time
After several administrations of our standardized, grade wide, computerized reading test, our literacy specialist, the “Reading Radical”, noticed a large majority of kids were missing several of the same vocabulary words. One of those words was “quilt”. She rallied us together to teach the 4 and 5 year olds on our campus this word through several different modalities. Our “Quilt…
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St Patricks Day Speech Therapy…A Recap
Am I the only one who doesn’t necessarily look forward to St. Patrick’s Day? For our students with learning differences, it is undeniably, absolutely, positively one of the most confusing days of the year. All year long they learn to keep their hands to themselves. Rainbows are related to weather. Gold is a color that only those who have the…
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