Work on fine motor skills and language skills at the same time!
Fine motor skills (FMS) are small muscle movements requiring close hand-eye coordination. Young students spend about 46% of their school day doing FMS activities, e.g.,…
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Don’t skimp on complex sentence work when teaching students to listen, speak, read, and write
Balthazar & Scott (2018) radically transformed my approach to oral language therapy. Balthazar & Scott (2024) have done it again – this time with my…
Young students benefit from both discrete skill training and explicit instruction in storytelling to improve their language and reading comprehension
Listening to, telling, reading, and writing stories gives students opportunities to work on multiple language targets at the same time while also learning a useful…
Why I teach reluctant writers about high-frequency prefixes, suffixes and bases
With thanks to Wood, Garcia-Salas, Schatschneider, and Torres-Chavarro (2024), here’s why I teach reluctant writers about high-frequency prefixes, suffixes, and bases: We can increase students’…
Speech-language pathologists should pay close attention to research about large language models (LLMs)
With thanks to Mahowald, Ivanova, Blank, Kanwisher, Tenenbaum, and Fedorenko (2024), here’s why I think speech-language pathologists should pay close attention to research about large…