Teaching the Passage of Time

Have you ever gotten "lost" in the depths of Pinterest for longer than you care to admit? Task management, an important executive function skill, is all about understanding the passage of time. It is understanding that everything we do takes time; learning how to estimate how long a task or activity will take; recognizing that if...

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Sound of the Week: before we begin, consideration #1

Before we dig in to the sounds of the week, there are a couple of notes I'd like to mention; items to consider before directly targeting speech sound production with children exhibiting significant speech disorders. Consideration #1: Functional Communication

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A new "project": Sound of the Week

A while back I did a "letter of the week" project. At the time I was working with several young children with speech and language impairments who were also at risk for literacy difficulties. That project was actually the impetus for starting this blog! Just as I was wrapping up the letter of the week project, I had a shift in focus for several of my clients. Apraxia and other motor speech disorders popped to the forefront. What evolved was essentially a "sound of the week" project...

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Executive Function Skills in Children & Adolescents {Summary}

If you follow me on Facebook and/or Twitter, you may have noticed I've had executive functioning on the brain. Here's why: Executive Function Skills in Children and Adolescents: Assessment and Treatment by Sarah Ward, MS, CCC-SLP I have had this self-study professional development course sitting in my to-do pile...

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Pat, I'd like to buy a vowel.

As a speech-language pathologist, it wasn't until I started working with children with significant speech impairments that I started to really appreciate the importance of vowels. I mean, I knew vowels are important. After all, without vowels our words have no meaning. Consider the following...

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