The start of another school year means, for me, another opportunity to make sure that nonverbal and minimally verbal students have robust aa...
Fonts and Keyboards for Greek/Coptic Scholars
OS X users needing special notation and characters for work involving ancient Greek or Coptic texts may be interested in the set of fonts an...
Getting Kids Ready for Back to School
Back to school transition time can be stressful for typical kids. It can be especially stressful for kids with special needs. Transit...
What I Did This Summer: How Will Students with Communication Disorders Answer This?
Every September (or insert your start date here) students around the country have, for years, written the dreaded What I Did Over Summer Vac...
OS X: Assigning Default Language Keyboard to Apps
If you have a need to have particular apps always use the same input source, AutoKeyboard is designed to do that: http://www.macupdate.com/a...
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...
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...
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