Tips for Applying Purposeful Play to Early Childhood SLP Practice
When parents and teachers see the big bag of toys I tend to carry with me each day, many assume that I play for a living!Well, yes and no.I make a point to have my…
Overcoming Bullying of Children Who Stutter: How SLPs Can Help Parents
Being bullied is hard. It’s hard for the children who experience it, it’s hard for the teachers who try to reduce it, and it’s hard for parents who have to watch their children experience the…
4 Questions to Ask to Understand Auditory Processing Disorders
Many of us have heard these statements from the field regarding students’ various issues in the auditory processing area:“Melody has a problem with auditory discrimination.”“Sean has difficulty with auditory sequence tasks.”“Ken failed the auditory figure-ground subtest…
Asking the Right Questions: Differentiating Language Difference from Language Impairment
The DilemmaAs speech-language pathologists, most of us expect to carry out extensive, time-consuming testing when confronted with an English language learner (ELL) who may have a language impairment. We often dread the process of finding…
Tap Technology for Narrative Assessment and Intervention
Assessing students’ discourse abilities can be a confusing process, but technology and recent tools within our literature can help.Why Look at Stories?Research in our field has established that both narrative (storytelling) and expository (informational) language…
Why Therapists Love MedBridge
