As tablet technology's use in the classroom grows, the student with Dyslexia or learning disabilities could be at disadvantage without a suitable app to meet their needs. Enter iReadWrite by TextHelp TextHelp are also the publishers the powerful Read & Write Gold software. The Read and Write Gold software retails for $295 on MAC and PC and ...

Word searches are a versatile activity for patients of various levels and abilities. I use them almost daily for expressive and receptive language skills, attention, errors awareness, reasoning, following directions, and visual scanning/ tracking. Many residents recognize and understand how to complete word searches with little direction needed; ...

Today I'd like to share a fun and inexpensive speech and language activity that would definitely be a classroom hit but could also be reproduced at home as well! ''Springtime Mystery Box'' This is an idea that one of the teachers I work with and I concocted to help the children in our preschool classrooms to IMAGINE, DESCRIBE, GUESS and of ...

[EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the final post in the Autism Spectrum Across Ages and Environments blog. Kathie Harrington, MA, CCC-SLP, passed away on March 19, 2013. A memorial service for her will be held in Boulder City, Nevada, at the Veterans Memorial Cemetery on April 19, 2013. If you would like to honor Kathie's ...

Introduce AAC more effectively! Here are 3 tips to help you do just that: No. 1 - When you are using AAC apps on an iPad, iPod, or iPhone, always utilize Guided Access. When enabled, Guided Access prevents the students from exiting within an app. This helps them focus on communication instead of trying to exit from the app to explore other apps — ...

Lazaro Arbos describes his life as a roller coaster. The lows come when he attempts to speak. As someone who stutters, he struggles to get out his words. It started as a young boy growing up in Cuba and got worse when his family moved to Florida at age 10. So much worse he stopped speaking.   ''No one wanted to hang out with me in ...

Looking for an app to add a little pizzazz to your approach on teaching sorting and categorization? Well, Sort This Out Pack is an entertaining app that does just that. It makes learning categories fun using a train theme. The game is broken up into four themed stations which are labeled: city, theme park, beach, and zoo.  The train is ...

Valentine's Day is the perfect time to review social skills and talk about friendship. A favorite curriculum for the younger children we serve is ''Good Talking Words'' by Lucy Hart Paulson and Rick van Den Pol. I love how this curriculum picks some simple key social concepts, and uses children's books to illustrate them. The ...

Teaching core words is an important and essential part of the AAC process. To learn more about core words you can read my previous blog post.  Recently, I discovered a free app that I love using when teaching core words, it's called Sight Words for Reading HD by Rock n Learn. This free app is available on both the iTunes and ...

Acquired stuttering, often referred to as neurogenic stuttering or acquired neurogenic stuttering, refers to speech dysfluencies that occur acutely and are most commonly due to stroke, traumatic brain injury, diseases such as meningitis  AIDS, tumors, or neurogenetic conditions such as Parkinson's Disease. Acquired stuttering has been ...