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Executive function skills help children manage information, control impulses, shift between tasks, organize materials, and follow through on plans. These…

Temporal language helps children understand routines, follow directions, describe events, and anticipate what comes next. Words such as before, after, first,…

Circle time can become much more than a calendar routine or a break between classroom activities. With thoughtful planning, it offers repeated opportunities to…

Writing a treatment plan for a client who stutters requires more than selecting a fluency technique and assigning a percentage criterion. Stuttering is shaped…

A teenager who avoids eye contact, gives one-word answers, refuses activities, or says therapy is pointless may be communicating much more than simple…

A bilingual home gives children access to more than one language, more family connections, and a broader way to understand the world. Children may learn two…

Prosody gives spoken language its movement. Changes in pitch, loudness, length, stress, and pausing help a listener recognize whether a child is asking,…

Early reading begins before children can read a sentence independently. They need to notice, remember, and manipulate the sounds in spoken language so that…

School-based speech-language pathologists make decisions that affect communication, access to learning, participation, and a student’s sense of identity. Many…

Technology has become a familiar part of speech-language therapy. A tablet can provide visual supports, an app can make repeated practice engaging, and a video…