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Medicare Guidelines For Group Therapy

Medicare Benefit Policy Manual, Chapter 15 230-Practice of Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, and Speech-Language Pathology A. Group Therapy Services. Contractors pay for outpatient physic...

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How and Why to Teach Categories in Speech Therapy

Categories in speech therapy! Categories are a foundation for how we learn, relate, store, and recall words. Discover speech therapy activities and more.

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How and Why to Teach Negation in Speech Therapy

Teaching negation in speech therapy! Negatives are a difficult concept to teach and learn but are critical to a child's ability to communicate. 

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Idioms and Speech and Language Therapy

For most of us, idioms are something we pick up naturally as we go through life, but for others, it can be a struggle to understand these seemingly random strings of words.

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Why Systematic Phonics and Phonemic Awareness Instruction Constitute An Educational Hazard

In this article, Frank Smith argues that "systematic" phonics instruction doesn't help and can interfere with learning to read.

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Building Semantic Networks: The Impact of a Vocabulary Intervention On Preschoolers’ Depth of Word Knowledge

Results suggest that fostering deep vocabulary knowledge involves not only teaching single word entities but also introducing systems of conceptually related words to build semantic networks.

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Increasing Adolescents’ Depth of Understanding of Cross-Curriculum Words: An Intervention Study

Cross-curriculum words are not consistently understood by adolescents at risk of low educational attainment within a low socio-economic context. A 10-week intervention programme resulted in some in...

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Language In Brief

Language is a rule-governed behavior. It is defined as the comprehension and/or use of a spoken (i.e., listening and speaking), written (i.e., reading and writing), and/or other communication symbo...

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Pronoun Acquisition

As children develop language, they naturally make pronoun errors. These errors are often age-appropriate (and adorable). Some children will not fully master all pronouns until the age of 4. Pronoun...

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Receptive Language Vs. Expressive Language

Put simply, receptive language generally refers to listening while expressive language refers to talking. But there's more to it, as we share in this blog!

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The Natural Language Acquisition Guide: Echolalia is All About Gestalt Language Development

'Echolalic’/gestalt comments, phrases, and others like them are vitally important because they make up the first, crucial stage of language development, real language development, for children and ...

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Efficacy of Auditory-Verbal Therapy In Children With Hearing Impairment: A Systematic Review From 1993 to 2015

This systematic review investigates the effects of auditory-verbal therapy (AVT) on receptive and expressive language development, auditory and speech perception, and "mainstreaming" in children, 2...

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Should Adolescents Go Back to the Basics?: A Review of Teaching Word Reading Skills to Middle and High School Students

This review investigates the effects of word reading interventions (e.g., phonic analysis, sight word reading, oral reading fluency) on reading achievement outcomes in middle and high school studen...

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Speech Intelligibility: How Clear is Your Child’s Speech?

Have you ever found it difficult to understand your child’s speech?A Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) can help you understand if your child’s speech intelligibility is at an appropriate level for ...

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Speech Sound Disorders: Articulation and Phonology

The scope of this page is speech sound disorders with no known cause—historically called articulation and phonological disorders—in preschool and school-age children (ages 3–21).

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Speech Sound Errors. The Most Common Speech Errors a Child is Likely to Make.

Speech Sound Errors: Speech production difficulties are the most common form of communication impairment school-based speech pathologists are likely to encounter when working in schools.

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The 100 Most Important Multiple Meaning Words Kids Need to Know | K5 Learning

K5 Learning highlights the top 100 most important multiple meaning words.

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Using Grammar - Kid Sense Child Development

If your child struggles to get a message across or is frequently misunderstood, they may require assistance from a speech pathologist to address grammar issues.

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Multiple Meanings: Theory, Research and Teaching Tips

Learning about the multiple meanings of words (e.g., to find -- a find) is included in the new and widely adopted Common Core Standards for English Language Arts. For example, the excerpt below was...

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Articulation and Intelligibility Norms For Spanish and English

Articulation and Intelligibility Norms for Spanish and English by Bilinguistics

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Spanish Phonemic Inventory

Spanish Phonemic Inventory and Facts about Spanish Phonemes by ASHA

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Engaging and Fun Speech Activities We Use At Home For Babies, Toddlers and Children

An article reviewing Learning Strategies and play-based activities for parents to use at home with babies, toddlers, and children with hearing loss.

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Bilingual Service Delivery

Information and resources regarding bilingual service delivery by SLPs (from ASHA)

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Nonword Repetition Tasks For Dynamic Assessment or Bilingual Evaluations

Nonword Repetition Tasks (NWRT) can be used as a dynamic assessment as opposed to static assessment. NWRTs assess phonological working memory, speech perception, phonological assembly, and short te...

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Evaluation of Bilingual Children- Considerations

An overview of considerations when evaluating bilingual (Spanish/English) children

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