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  • Making Literacy Therapy More Relevant for a Teen with Dyslexia and Dysgraphia

Making Literacy Therapy More Relevant for a Teen with Dyslexia and Dysgraphia

In this video, Speech-language pathologist Carrie Clark discusses ways to make literacy therapy more relevant and helpful for a teen who has dyslexia and dysgraphia. Use Classwork: Find opportunities to work on reading practice within the student’s homework or assignments: Look for and practice specific spelling

Online Reading Materials for Story Recall and Other Literacy Activities

Let me show you the best resources for finding online reading materials that you can use for story recall or other literacy activities during speech therapy! Notes:  www.BookSource.com Lists of books that support various common core curriculum areas Can buy the books through the website or

Improving Summarizing Skills in Children Through Literacy

Today, speech-language pathologist Carrie Clark explains how to help a child learn to summarize an event or story through the use of literacy activities.  Listen below! Show Notes: Step One: Teach Main Idea Click Here to See How to Teach Main Idea Click Here to Download my

Literacy Resource Page

  What is Literacy? Literacy refers to any reading or writing skills.  Children with speech and language delays often have difficulty with literacy skills as well.  Children who have difficulty pronouncing or understanding certain speech sounds may have difficulty with reading and writing those sounds as well.  This can

  • 5 ways to get your asha hours

5 Ways to Get your ASHA Hours (Without Paying for CEUs)

5 Ways to Get your ASHA Hours (Without Paying for CEUs) All speech-language pathologists know that we need 30 CEUs every three years to maintain our ASHA Certification, right? Or do we??? As it turns out, we don't need CEUs at all.  We need 30 hours every three years

  • Language Therapy for Children

Language Therapy for Children Activities and Ideas

What is Language Therapy for Children? When a child is having trouble using words, sentences, and language to communicate with others, speech-language pathologists can provide language therapy to boost their skills.  Language therapy can target skills like using grammatically correct sentences, asking and answering questions, following directions, understanding

  • sight words games

Sight Words Games | Free Activities to Teach Sight Words

Sight Words Games: Free Activities to Teach Sight Words Sight words are words that we expect children to be able to read or decode as soon as they see them, without having to sound them out. Some of these words are difficult to sound out, as they don't

  • summer speech therapy homework week 4

Summer Speech Therapy Homework – Week 4

Summer Speech Therapy Homework - Week 4 Welcome to week four of our Summer Speech Challenge for Parents!  Click here if you want to go back and start from week 1! Summer Speech Therapy Homework Challenge: To recap, our Summer Speech Challenge is a new challenge

Boosting Reading Skills for Children with Dyslexia: 5 Tips from SLPs

Boosting Reading Skills for Children with Dyslexia: 5 Tips from SLPs Dyslexia is a specific learning disability that is neurobiological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in

  • 5 inferencing activities for speech therapy

5 Inferencing Activities for Speech Therap

5 Inferencing Activities for Speech Therapy An inference is when you use clues present (in text or in real life) along with your background knowledge to make a guess about something that's not explicitly known. For example, if you see an "out of order" sign, you can use

Keeping Wiggly Kids Engaged During Circle Time or Large Group Activities

Keeping Wiggly Kids Engaged During Circle Time or Large Group Activities Do you have trouble keeping your wiggly preschoolers engaged during large group activities?  Lisette from Speech Sprouts joined us on The Speechie Show to talk about how to keep those little ones engaged with storybook activities!  #speechieshow

Sequencing Activities for Kids | Sequencing Skills

Join the Hub to Access Sequencing Activities for Kids Sequencing is the skill that we use when we break down an event into simple steps and put those steps in order.  We need sequencing skills to talk about something that

  • The Speech Therapist's Role in Reading and Writing in Children and Adolescents

The Speech Therapist’s Role in Reading and Writing in Children and Adolescents

In this episode of The Speech and Language Kids Podcast, speech-language pathologist Carrie Clark discusses what speech therapists can do to help with literacy (reading and writing) skills in children and adolescents. What is Literacy? Pre-reading skills like phonological awareness and basic language skills Reading skills Writing

  • how to teach persuasive writing to students

Persuasive Writing for Kids: How to Teach Persuasive Writing

Persuasive Writing for Kids What is Persuasive Writing? Persuasive writing is a type of writing skill that is expected of high schoolers in the United States.  According to the common core curriculum, children in 9-12th grades must be able to express their ideas in discussions persuasively.  The goal of

Improving Phonological Awareness Skills for Older Children who are Already Reading

Find out how you can work on phonological awareness skills with older children to improve their literacy skills even if they're already starting to read some words or even books! Notes:  Work on the same phonological awareness skills you would for your younger students –http://www.speechandlanguagekids.com/ultimate-guide-phonological-awareness-pre-reading-skills/ Start

Supporting Details and Main Idea Examples & Teaching Tools

Main Idea and Supporting Details This learning guide will demonstrate how to help a child learn to identify main idea and supporting details in a written text as well as to include them in their own writing.  We'll provide examples and definitions along the way. We use

  • Speech and Language Kids

Speech and Language Kids | Speech Therapy for Kids

Speech-Language Professionals Increase your confidence and decrease your stress with resources for SLPs, SLPAs, SaLTs, etc. Resources for Speech-Language Professionals Educators Boost speech and language skills for your struggling students.  Help for teachers, special educators, paras, therapists, etc. Resources for Educators

Dyslexia Speech Therapy: How SLPs Can Help with Dyslexia

Dyslexia Speech Therapy: How SLPs Can Help with Dyslexia Dyslexia is a specific learning disability that is neurobiological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the phonological