Can I make a confession? I really haven’t made syntax and grammar a priority with my older students. Sure, with my younger elementary we work on plenty of pronouns, question formation, word order, verb tense,
In this week's podcast, Marisha shares practical, evidence-based strategies that SLPs can use to target syntax goals. She breaks down 3 different strategies that SLPs can implement in therapy to help target syntax.
Learn if there's a scope and sentence for language therapy and syntax intervention the speech-language pathologists can follow in this article.
Those of us who work with school-aged children know that its rare to have cases with only one isolated problem. Because of that, we need to to expert problem-solvers who can figure out how to cram as much in to our sessions as possible. Since it’s common to have students with both language and articulation...
My best tips for teaching story grammar elements, plus my packet of visual supports and 13 no-prep short stories for story grammar practice.
What is the "language" in speech-language pathology? The five components of language and their development and their importance!
One of the biggest challenges for speech pathologists treating kids with language disorders is knowing how “normal” language development looks over the school-age years. We have a lot of language developmental milestones charts out there, but most of them end around age 6. After that, you’ll be hard pressed to find a neat little chart...
SLPs are in a position to make a huge impact on our students’ language skills. But here’s the challenge a lot of us face when it comes to helping our students: Most of us are so good at using language, we use it without thinking. Over time we lose the ability to explain HOW we...
This worksheet addresses the basic language concept of "not." One of my kids can identify what doesn't belong from a field of 3-4, but it's harder to decide what is "not" in a category when there are only two choices. What's even harder will be alternating between asking what IS and what IS NOT in a given category! We will get to that soon! Click here to download!
The interesting thing about mentoring SLPs is that I get to see what clinicians are doing in a number of different situations and settings across the US (and often, the world). I’ve found that many of the SLPs I work with seem to have similar struggles when it comes to language therapy. The biggest complaint...
Many of us know we should address syntax in speech therapy sessions for kids with language disorders; but many of us aren’t really sure where to start. I’ve made the mistake of skimming over syntax and going right to comprehension strategies; like with my student John I talked about in this article. John wasn’t making...
As a follow up to my last post on sentence combining; I wanted to give you some quick resources with syntax worksheets for speech therapy. There are MANY ways you can come up with creative simple sentences to combine to compound sentences. You can write sentences about different media, like images, videos, and stories. You...
Receptive language is the comprehension of language input. Learn all about it, plus X easy activities to improve receptive language delays!
Semantic feature analysis is a vocabulary-building strategy that builds storage and retrieval, boosts metalinguistic awareness skills, and teaches students to define and describe words in a way that’s EFFICIENT, and EFFECTIVE. Many of us know how to do semantic feature analysis for nouns, but we know that our students need to know verbs and adjectives...
Speech therapy grammar activities round-up! Discover free and paid grammar resources to download and use now.
Is your student producing multiple sound errors? Review the typical and atypical phonological processing disorder free...
I made this worksheet for my client who is working on formulating sentences when given two words to use in the sentence. Nothing fancy, but great to send home as homework. Click here to download!
Teaching grammar intervention in speech therapy! Grammar strategies, guides, choosing goals, activities, and more!
Should SLPs be working on spelling? Short answer: YES! But not in the way you’d think. If you’ve ever thought spelling was the teachers’ job… Outside of our scope… Unimportant to language and it’s overall meaning… Too time-consuming to incorporate in to language therapy… Then you’re going to realize as you watch this video that...
