Posted by Landria Seals Green,M.A., CCC-SLP on 20 September 2011 | 0 Comments
Tags:
autism,
ABA,
reading,
speech therapy,
connecticut,
michigan,
tutoring,
SLP
Hi Everyone and Welcome to Toolkit Tuesday!
Each Tuesday I am committing to "share" tools that I've used to support clients and their progression in treatment. My motto is "therapy should make you better". Well I believe, one of the better methods is the use of technology.
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.
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. Infuse the Conversation Colors to make the feeling states concrete and the story alive.
2. Conversation Skills and Fluency: It is important for the teacher to type! (as this activity goes fast and after all, fluency is a goal). With this, you can create a scenario, have the student take on a character and flow with the conversation. Analysis comes after!
3. Written expression: Move away from the essay and the lined paper or blank compute screen. A quick comic strip can target any type of expository writing and actually target the quality of the skill acquisition rather than getting the length. Length comes later. AND this heightens the cool factor for the teacher and the socioemotional buy in needed to get to the goal of length.
4. Synonyms/Antonyms/Vocabulary: In this idea, one character (teacher's character) can supply a simple statement. The learner's character has to restate it using the targeted vocabulary words from classroom curriculum. This supports the student's ability to demonstrate real vocabulary use and application to the curriculum. The learner gets to demonstrate that he/she really understands the deep structure of the word through the development of a comic strip.
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Posted by Tamina Stuber, BCBA on 6 May 2011 | 1 Comments
Tags:
Teamwork,
Empowering Families,
SLC Therapy
I'd like to introduce my first guest blogger and staff person, Tamina Stuber, BCBA. Tamina embraces the Empowering People and Expandinging Independence at SLC through hard work. When supervising and coaching therapists, Tamina can be overheard saying "If you're not sweating, you're not working hard enough". A recent experience at a community event further solidified this very real and crucial philosophy for not only therapists, but even those who market, answer the phones, and schedule "Sweat plus hard work multiplied by all members of the team = SLC Therapy"
"If I'm Not Sweating, I'm Not Working Hard Enough"
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Posted by on 31 March 2011 | 2 Comments
Tags:
augmentative communication,
apraxia,
speech deficits,
AAC Michigan,
Michigan Speech therapy,
Connecticut Speech Therapy,
CT Autism Therapy
I am the first to raise my hand or nod in agreement when and if the question "Do you think current top of the line AAC devices are cost prohibitive?"
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Posted by on 12 January 2011 | 7 Comments
Tags:
therapy on the web,
teletherapy,
The American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA) defines teletherapy as "the application of telecommunications technology to delivery of professional services at a distance by linking clinician to client, or clinician to clinician, for assessment, intervention, and/or consultation."
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Posted by Landria Seals green on 28 September 2010 | 0 Comments
Tags:
Waiting for Superman,
Autism,
Special Education,
Therapy,
Parenting,
Learning Disabilities,
Education,
Empowerment
Much has been said, written, with even the daytime talk show circuit discussing the movie, Waiting for "Superman". I too, have found myself in talks over dinner when the topic of education comes up. I find myself offended for those dedicated and knowledgeable educators, the unsung heroes, who educate our children everyday without praise, pay increase, or resources to do the job they are evaluated to do and passionate about doing. So on Friday evening, when a well meaning adult male decided to say that he was trying to volunteer in a school system under his own organization ...I quickly said "if you are truly passionate, then go and get certified..get licensed...go and teach". To my comment, he stated "No I don't want that full responsibility". I inwardly smiled until he said "After all, teaching is not rocket science". I then turned to him, meaningful looked in his eyes, and stated "No its not, but since the rocket scientist had a teacher, I would think twice about demeaning the profession that is responsible for educating each and everyone of us at this table". Needless to say, that there was silence and this man could not look at me for the remainder of the evening.
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