I know what you’re thinking and let me stop you right there-no I do use the iPad 24/7 in my speech room. I’m actually pretty old-fashion when it comes to gadgets for learning and would much prefer my students feel and touch real items than stare at a screen. HOWEVER. There comes a point when technology is […]

  RESEARCH. It’s a terrible word, isn’t it? To this day, even though I actually enjoy finding and doing research, when I hear that word, my stomach reflexively does a flip. I think it’s much the same with our students. They associate “research” with the words “hard,” “boring,” “difficult,” and something only old (or should […]

Last Sunday, as I was sitting in church, the pastor was speaking on a topic that raised those conviction feelings in my heart. You know the kind, the kind that seem to hit smack dab in the middle of your heart and make you feel the pastor is talking just to you). The verse he […]

If you’ve been hesitate to incorporate math into your speech and language sessions, here’s an easy way I’ve been doing it. Most of us have goals of following directions. We can easily cite English Language Arts Standards when working on these goals such as: Language 3: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, […]

With some encouragement from my friends, I’ve decided to start a new series on the blog titled “Evidence-Based Interventions.” I don’t know about you, but I need this series. Actually, we are all required to seek out and perform the very best, sound evidence from systematic research in relation to an individual student. ASHA’s position statement […]