A plan to written success
Students with language-based disabilities often struggle with the acquisition of written language skills.
Is My Child Learning?
Language is an integral part of education, but so often we become focused on the task and forget the underlying foundation. Buckminster Fuller in his book, “Critical Path” written in 1982 presents the “knowledge doubling theory doubling approximately every 18 months, now in 2015 some are stating that it is occurring ever 12 months. With such […]
Following directions: Where do I go?
I recently completed jury duty, and it was interesting watching people follow directions, or maybe I should say not follow directions. Jury duty begins when you arrive at the court house and are assigned a number. At 8:30am a court officer greets the awaiting jurors and shows a video. On my day of service after […]
Tutoring vs speech language therapy
Recently I worked with client on the autism spectrum who received A-and B’s on his papers at his traditional high school. In his papers his vocabulary was redundant, he had little sentence variety, and at times the content of his papers mirrored, the model provided so closely that it had little original thought. This student […]
Multidisciplinary Salon
This year, I am launching a “Multidisciplinary Salon.” I came up with the idea when a friend, who lives in Berkeley, CA, told me about a friend who had very interesting discussions with others in his field over dinner. I thought it was a brilliant idea. I just couldn’t quite figure out how to accomplish […]
That cry means…
When your baby cries she is communicating in the only way, she knows how. Listen closely. Her cries will be her first attempts to communicate. Often you will hear mothers say they can tell whether their baby is hungry, wet or tired. Next time your baby cries remember it’s not a cry, but communication, and […]
Speech-Language Therapy
Each person has different strengths and weaknesses. Part of the speech language pathologist job is to help each person understand and use their strengths to overcome their weaknesses. Discovering each person’s strengths is like uncovering pearls. The goal is to learn how to use an individuals strength to decrease or navigate around their speech language deficit. It’s […]
Traumatic brain injury: Why would you ever need a Speech Pathologist?
My first job was working at a rehabilitation hospital that specialized in traumatic brain injury. It was a very interesting job because when working with a patient with an acquired brain injury the behavior present after the injury can be related to the site of the injury. I closed head trauma to the left side […]