When a Child Can’t “Follow Along,” Is It Hearing, or Something Else?
A child who loses the thread of a story, mishears instructions in a noisy classroom, or seems to “tune out” during a lesson is often suspected of having an auditory… Read more »
Know Your Roots
Know Your Roots: Why the History of Speech-Language Pathology Matters to SLPs and Parents Alike If you asked a speech-language pathologist today who the first “speech clinicians” in America were,… Read more »
Classroom Displays: How Much Is Too Much?
The ability to focus and sustain attention to relevant information is important for learning in the classroom and for academic achievement. The more time spent focused on a task, the… Read more »
Supporting Children with Autism with Social Stories
Social Stories are short stories used as a teaching tool for children with autism that describe a potentially challenging situation, skill, or concept in terms of relevant social cues, perspectives,… Read more »
Support Your Child’s Reading Development at Home
Learning to read is a complex process that starts early in the preschool years. Parents can help their children make faster progress in learning to read by regularly engaging in… Read more »
Sensory Strategies in Action: How to Alert or Calm Yourself or Your Child
You may have heard of relaxation techniques to calm oneself by using soothing music or deep breathing. What about techniques to alert oneself when experiencing low energy? When addressing sensory… Read more »
Therapeutic Listening Blog
Using Music to Improve Sensory Processing Music is frequently used as a therapeutic tool to calm or organize children. However, does music have the potential for sensory organization? In 2007,… Read more »
Understanding Sensory Processing Disorder
It is our sense of vision that allows us to see and make sense of the words on this page. However, our sense of vision may not always process information… Read more »
Graphic Organizers and Reading Comprehension
Research has shown that children with Autism have difficulties with reading comprehension. It is difficult for them to answer literal comprehension questions such as “Where did the character go?, What… Read more »
Disability Rights, Neurodiversity, and ABA Abolitionism
In the late 1960s and 1970s, a disability rights movement emerged in the UK and US, which rejected the medical view of disability, and posited that disability is a characteristic… Read more »
