Speech-Language Pathologists: Gear Up to Meet Common Core State Standards! Believe it or not, back to school time is here. Some districts I know are already back. Amazing in the heat of summer. Others don’...
Do You Need Some More Summer Language Fun? I have a few language games that I have always recommended to parents and teachers alike. They’re great for car rides, waiting in doctors’...
“Are We There Yet?” Taking Language Development on the Road. Need a quick and easy vocabulary game to play anywhere? How about a vocabulary Tic-Tac-Toe type game? The boards are a bit smaller than a B...
speaking Improve your public speaking with Toastmasters A great way to improve your speaking ability (listening and vocabulary too), build your confidence, engage in networking, and integrate i...
Does Your Language Intervention Take the Summer Off? If you have a child with a language disorder, you know that building language skills needs to happen all of the time. After all, natural con...
Language Building with Apps: Part 2 In a previous post ( http://kidzlearnlanguage.blogspot.com/2013/08/apps-in-intervention.html ) I talked about some of my favorite apps to u...
Are You Using Stories to Increase Langue Skills? Story books are fabulous for building children’s language skills. Last week I talked a little about infusing your child’s play with langu...
New Language Features in iOS 8 At the WWDC June 2, Apple announced some new language features to appear in the next version of iOS: +multilingual predictive typing via Qui...
Increasing Language Through Play A lot has been written about using a child’s play to build their language development. There are formal intervention programs that guide pa...
New Input Methods for Indic Scripts Thanks to Ranganath Atreya we now have some alternatives to Apple's keyboards for Indic scripts. His user-configurable IM covers a vari...
Stages of Language Development - Watching What We Teach Back in the early 1980’s I studied language samples of children who has been identified as severely intellectually disabled. They were chil...
Summertime Collaboration Time: Work with parents! Summer is almost here and with it may come an end, or at least a decrease, in services to kids. While collaboration with parents is key to ...
iWork for iCloud Beta: Still No Support For RTL OR Indic Scripts The improvements added by Apple to iWork for iCloud beta on May 21 did not include any fixes to the broken rendering of Arabic or Indic scri...
Summer's on the Way I know it is still snowing in some places and it has been a really long winter for lots of you. Here in Southern California we never really...
Grab a FREE Resource My resource Language Fun and Story Elements with the book Aunt Isabel Tells a Good One (by Kate Duke) will be a Flash Freebie on Teacher...
Being a Good Communication Partner, Part 2 I wanted to touch this topic again, as there continues to be a lot of confusion from parents, teachers, aides and SLPs about how, exactly, t...
Tech Tips for the Classroom Just a quick post here. I wanted to let you know about a free ebook now available on Teachers Pay Teachers. Tech Tips for Teachers. Lots ...
Social Network App for Language Exchange I recently became aware of an unusual app designed to facilitate social networking across language barriers and help people learning another...
Language Improvements In iOS and Mac Pages And Keynote The new versions of iOS and Mac Pages and Keynote released by Apple April 1 have several new features for Arabic/Hebrew. In Pages: +New Arab...
iWork for iCloud Beta: Still No Support For RTL Or Indic Scripts The improvements added by Apple to iWork for iCloud beta on April 1 did not included any fixes to the broken rendering of Arabic or Indic sc...
Apps on Sale for April Autism Awareness Just a quick post - and I try to stay away from too many posts that sell my resources, BUT Question It - the app for teaching kids with auti...
Autism Awareness Day - and Month April 2 is Autism Awareness Day coming up again. And the whole month is dedicated to autism awareness. Interestingly enough, I've...