Reinforcement Ideas For Your Home Reinforcement Ideas for your Home Reinforcement systems and rewards can be great at keeping children working towards the end of an activity. Be sure to alert the child as to how much work they have to do in order to earn the reward (work for 10 minutes, 5 [...]
How Do You Work On Functional Communication Skills? Functional Communication can be referred to the utmost fundamental communication skills and is used to express one’s basic desires and needs. For typical children, functional communication starts to come about in their first year of life. Normally it starts with gestures and then grows to [...]
Promoting Independent Living Skills Promoting Independent Living Skills for Children with Speech and Language Delays: Your SLP will assist you in setting goals based on assessment data that target and focus on initiating spontaneous communication in functional activities, engaging in reciprocal communication interactions, and generalizing gains across activities, environments, and communication partners; Introduce [...]
Speech vs. Language: What's the Difference? Language is different from speech! Language is made up of socially shared rules that include the following: What words mean (e.g., "star" can refer to a bright object in the night sky or a celebrity) How to make new words (e.g., friend, friendly, unfriendly) How to put [...]
3 Speech Therapy Strategies for the Holiday Break We all know how stressful the holiday season can be - parties, traveling, visiting family members, and the list goes on! These ongoing events can certainly change up your regular routine. Now imagine tackling the entire holiday season without knowing which event was coming up [...]
Components of Social Cognition Social Cognition The development of social-cognitive ability, and a child’s understanding of the cognitive and emotional underpinnings of human behavior, is necessary for successful social interactions and for the fostering of meaningful relationships. Social cognition has two important aspects: ‘theory of mind’ (ToM) and ‘emotion understanding’ (EU). Both are [...]
The Essential Skills for Successful Conversations Conversational Skills: What is conversation? - a form of interactive, spontaneous communication between two or more people. The development of conversational skills and etiquette is an important part of socialization. What are discourse skills? Components of a Conversation (describe in the order that they typically happen) Greetings/initiation- saying hello, [...]
Speech Therapy Tips for Maximizing Home-School Communication Speech Therapy Tips for Maximizing Home-School Communication It is proven across the board that those parents that want to be a part of their child's therapy, and SLPs that involve the parents fully in the speech program see increased progress and faster! Some important things to consider: Obtain a [...]
Levels of Play Here are different levels of play : Solitary Play. Play, without regard to the involvement of other children in the room or playground. A child may build a tower with blocks, yet be oblivious to other nearby children. Character Play. As the child plays, they observe other children in the same [...]
Behavior Management in Speech Therapy Behavior Management in Speech Therapy A significant portion of work with children in therapy involves successful management of a number of behavioral difficulties, which often interfere with successful objective completion and goal attainment. Some suggestions for improving behavior involve changing the environment to best suit the child's needs. [...]
