One of my biggest mistakes as a newer SLP was equating “comprehension” with “text”, or at least longer chunks of language including stories, articles, and paragraphs of information. But, after reading a few very insightful research articles about the importance of sentence-level work in speech therapy sessions, I changed things up. And it’s made a […]

Sentences can be made more complex by increasing their length and by adding more advanced language elements. Two common ways to do this are by adding noun phrases and by using subordination (sentences that include multiple clauses). Three types of subordination make up the majority of multi-clausal sentences students will encounter. Here’s a little more […]

Complex sentence comprehension requires significant cognitive and working memory resources. Imagine sentence comprehension as the understanding of several smaller parts of a sentence. For example, in the sentence “The white fish swam toward a bigger black fish to try and scare it away.”, you have to understand many pieces of information in order to understand […]

Want some easy no prep therapy ideas you can use with a variety of kids and groups? Look no further! These fun ideas are nearly material-less and most involve movement to keep our students engaged! ⬇️ 📝 Sticky Synonyms: Write words on a white board that have relatively easy synonyms. Write those synonyms on Post-It […]

Today I wanted to share some of ideas for how I’ve targeted executive functioning skills, and specifically skills like planning, self-awareness + self-monitoring, and even working memory. 🎯 If you’ve been around here for a while, you’ll know I love to embed this type of work into my language, literacy, and speech sound therapy. Language […]

Why do SLPs work on formulating sentences in speech therapy with subject, verb, and object components? While typical children will begin to combine words and form sentences, children with a language impairment might struggle with this basic syntax. It’s our job to help them grow their vocabulary and use it in a way that makes […]

If you’re like most SLPs, you are in need of some pronouns speech therapy activities! Pronouns are actually the #2 most common grammar target amongst elementary school SLPs, so it’s a pretty common need. Children start using pronouns at 3-4 years of age. They don’t perfect them then, though. It isn’t until 3rd grade that […]

Teaching past tense is just one of the many tasks that come our way in language therapy. Kids with developmental language disorders frequently struggle to correctly produce regular and irregular past tense verbs. Time for a little speech therapy intervention to the rescue! Teaching Irregular vs. Regular Past Tense Verbs Basics As always, it’s important […]

In need of some quick research-based syntax speech therapy materials? Check out my Systematic Sentence Combining to target syntax with no-prep, printable worksheets (or no-print for digital learning and teletherapy!). Methodically move through sentence combining, conjunctions, adverbial clauses, relative clauses, compound sentences, complex sentences, and embedded details with over 200 worksheets covering 5 levels of […]

Are you looking for some simple grammar worksheets? I have several preschool and kindergarten students on my caseload that needed to work on very basic grammatical structures. Everything I found was too complicated. Working on it in play was what I wanted to do, but they continued struggling despite my models, recasts, and visuals. I […]

For many students on my caseload, question formulation, or putting words in the correct order when asking questions, is an incredibly difficult skill. I saw this difficulty across students with social skill goals, AAC goals, and syntax goals. A few months ago, I wanted to encourage one of my social skills kiddos to ask a […]

My other sentence formulation packets have been a hit, and I love them as well! Here is another that can be used year round with it’s fun monster theme! The packet is obviously intended for kids who need help creating sentences… but it can also be used to open dialogue about perspective taking and silly […]