Author: Landria Green, SLP Guru
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Teaching Yes and No question forms
Teaching people with communication impairments to respond to Yes/No questions requires a level of knowledge and understanding from the person(s) posing the question. The person being a family member, a therapist, relevant person, or community provider. Therapists’ working on Yes/No with clients, should understand that there are different levels of comprehension and thinking from clients […]
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Disrupting the Flow: The Role of SLPs in Schools
I have had the awesome opportunity to begin my career in the public schools. I have worked in public schools with private school flair and more urban public schools. While I have been in private practice for over 10 years now, I continue to keep my pulse on the public schools and remain knowledgeable about […]
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Writing and Communication Tools for Parents and Therapists
This tool created by ReadWriteThink can be used by reading specialists, speech-language pathologists, parents, and tutors. More than that, it can be used in a variety of ways. http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/comic-creator-30021.html Here are some suggestions: 1. Social Stories with an interactive Comic Strip. Set up the good idea, the bad idea, and the open ended comic strip. […]
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Choosing Between Speech Therapy and ABA
This blog post is inspired by an all too familiar discussion in online groups, parent support groups, and conversations within homes worldwide. The discussions that lead to decisions typically involve one of these phrases “I think I’m going to let go of speech and increase ABA. ABA can target social skills.” “I think I need […]
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Teaching Nonvocal Learners to become Nonverbal Communicators
Nonvocal learners are, most times, silent. For the sake of this conversation, let’s call them silent participators. There is no directed form of vocalization to demonstrate happiness, participation, or requesting. Most vocalization is seen in signs of displeasure. For me, as an SLP, the vocalization (any vocalization) found in any form of displeasure (cry, protest, […]
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Becoming a Great Therapist. A Tribute to Anne Sullivan
Most people who know me well, know that I am huge fan of Anne Sullivan. In clinical discussion meetings with senior staff “On Leadership in Therapy”, I may often make reference to Anne Sullivan or a lesson that I have learned just by watching her through various media outlets. After completing assessments, holding supervision meetings […]
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The Social Connection
Social Communication Therapy should be mulitlayered and meaningfully address the areas of deficit and build the strengths simultaneously! Whew…that’s a lot of work and preparation on the part of the astute therapist and challenging work for the client. Still no social intervention program that expects to work beyond the round table and the walls of […]
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One Language or Two? The Bilingual Quandry in Autism
I appreciate great research, well founded studies with clinically relevant recommendations that can be utilized by therapists and consumers. The topic of Bilingualism as it relates to autism or even relevant research with strong implications for bi or tri language acquisition in people with autism is a subject not well researched. However, the answer of […]
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