2024-04-12 14:13
Suno AI is a fun tool which will generate a song for you if you provide a simple prompt, such as a genre and topic. Sign in with your Google account and you can create a number of songs for… Read More
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2024-04-05 14:31
Last month, ASHA Leader featured a helpful article, Using ChatGPT to Create Treatment Materials (Price, Lubniewski, Du) providing great examples of prompts to ChatGPT for creation of so… Read More
2024-03-08 21:09
Working with teens and young adults and interested in showing them how to use an AI tool that helps them be more independent? As this free (and committed to remaining free) site proclaims, "… Read More
2024-01-19 22:31
Within sessions I strive to achieve what we might call media balance, using a variety of materials including hands-on, paper, and digital. If I feel the plan involves too much tech, I try to… Read More
2023-11-16 13:40
During this time of year, we often do the obligatory lessons about gratitude that go well with the thanksgiving holiday. From a language perspective, practicing gratitude involves reflecting… Read More
2023-11-03 15:50
...is something my husband or I says to the other at some point every day since the spring. At that time, the New York Times added a daily puzzle that I thought was uniquely designed f… Read More
2023-09-29 15:45
I have posted here recently on the therapeutic uses of Generative AI for language activities, and have recently been impressed by the results of using it to obtain modifiable content useful… Read More
2023-08-24 20:42
This summer I became addicted to the New York Times' new Connections puzzle. I enjoyed each morning tackling this often-tricky categorization activity and comparing results (or sometimes pro… Read More
2023-08-17 14:56
Proceeding from some ideas about the role of music in speech-language therapy (and social coaching), back in the spring I did some activities with MusicLM. This tool is available from Google… Read More
2023-08-04 19:47
The title of this post is both an encouragement and some specific features I wanted to let you know about!You first of all probably know singing is a hobby for me and a self-regulation strat… Read More
2023-07-25 16:09
Over the spring semester, in several of my social learning groups, we were experimenting with games that allowed for association, storytelling and humor (essentially the same skills used in… Read More
2023-05-20 14:48
I am just wrapping up another semester supervising graduate students at BU's Academic Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic. In gaining baseline and post-treatment data, I am always steering t… Read More
2023-04-21 12:40
Any tech resource that is simple, reliable, with content worth more than one visit, and that will tie in with instructional strategies is one to save on your list. Such a thing is the New Yo… Read More
2023-04-14 21:07
I have been doing clinical supervision at BU for a few semesters now. It's such a rewarding experience to work with the graduate students in their first clinical in-house experiences. I have… Read More
2023-03-09 20:31
Having been certified in Visualizing and Verbalizing® years ago, I've always found it an essential tool in my toolkit. Scaffolding students toward creating a mental image gestalt, guided… Read More
2023-02-03 15:58
You probably have heard of ChatGPT, a free Artificial Intelligence chatbot that you can ask for all sorts of information. Yes, we have concerns about it being misused in academia, and I know… Read More
2023-01-21 21:00
Music is motivating, self-regulating and full of language. Recently I have used songs with individuals and groups in a couple of specific ways.For an individual client I see, I have been wor… Read More
2023-01-14 21:45
I can't say enough about the app Breathwrk and what it has done for me, and taught me personally. I've mentioned I struggle here and there with SAD and some other layers. Whether thought- or… Read More
2022-12-17 17:51
Check out Hume AI's website for a number of maps of various types of nonverbals that may be useful to you in therapy activities, particularly with teens, young adults or adults. I say that b… Read More
2022-11-17 22:45
Museums appealing to children are often a great source of interactive websites. I liked this website years ago (see the blast from the past) and the now Plimoth-Pawtuxet Museum has redesigne… Read More
2022-11-11 15:27
Book Creator has long been a stellar app/webtool and recently I discovered that they have templates to "remix." You can add templates to your app and do a collaborative work on your iPad amo… Read More
2022-11-05 20:01
Hi everyone! In July I was honored to present at the SLP Summit. I’ve expanded on that content and have a new 1.5 hr on-demand course available for you to earn more CEUs! We know one h… Read More
2022-10-28 14:33
Looking for an engaging activity this Monday? Check out this fun one from Control-Alt-Achieve (also a great resource in general). In this you use Google Docs as a visual creator to make… Read More
2022-10-05 21:47
Try this Google Earth "quiz" on animal sounds from NPR's Science Friday to engage your students! I have mentioned before and on the Talking with Tech podcast that quiz-like activities c… Read More
2022-09-10 20:57
Back in May, I had the wonderful fortune of recording with Chris Bugaj and Rachel Madel for their terrific podcast, Talking with Tech. They split the conversation over two episodes which cam… Read More
2022-08-02 19:48
In my session on creating "stories" for SLP Summit last week (recording available free until August 15, Register here), I focused on thinking about features of resources that might make… Read More
2022-07-28 21:18
Continuing here to post some companion pieces to my session this week at the SLP Summit (available in its recorded form with others until August 15, register here). One of the app resources… Read More
2022-07-26 19:29
I had great experience presenting live for SLP Summit yesterday! The people and responses were wonderful. My session will be available in its recorded form as will the other excellent presen… Read More
2022-07-20 22:12
When the iPad came out in 2010, I was skeptical. It seemed like a big iPhone and I wasn't sure it would take off. Showing how much I know, it soon became an educational sensation and took of… Read More
2022-07-18 19:29
It is an honor to participate as a presenter for the SLP Summit this summer! Save the dates and join me for my live course on July 25! SLP Summit is a 4-day virtual event with 8 present… Read More
2022-06-24 21:19
I described in a recent post coming to find some good uses for Minecraft with interested clients and groups. This previous post was about using Education Edition which not all have access to… Read More
2022-06-16 14:03
Some weeks ago, I had the terrific opportunity to talk with Kim Dutro Allen and K.Todd Houston at their excellent Telepractice Today podcast. Each week they bring in someone from the field t… Read More
2022-06-10 20:11
While supervising this semester at Boston University, I was informed about the resources available through the Leaders Project at Columbia University for narrative language sampling. The Sch… Read More
2022-05-27 14:39
Nine years ago I had the opportunity to visit Sandy Hook and work with some educators along with Pamela Ely, the director of the Ely Center, LLC where I work, and Sheila and Maryellen Moreau… Read More
2022-05-19 15:36
I have previously written about using contexts like Minecraft without getting into the thing itself. I've come around on this a bit and next time I'll talk about some simple uses of Minecraf… Read More
2022-05-13 13:08
Dino Tracker is a fictionalized interactive website that has been released as a promotion for Jurassic World Dominion, an upcoming film in the series. The premise of this film is that d… Read More
2022-05-07 14:04
LearnHip has some useful and simple activities designed for English language learners but also useful for speech and language therapy. It may be particularly useful as a warm-up or to make u… Read More
2022-05-01 15:34
Whether doing tele- or in-person therapy, you should be aware of the cute, simple and useful resources of Dr. Karen Fried at Oaklander training, such as the online sand tray and dollho… Read More
2022-04-21 21:23
Tiny Tap was previously described here as a good mobile app resource for both making interactive activities and finding visual content for lessons. I recently noticed TinyTap has ported cont… Read More
2022-03-10 20:09
Flowing a bit from my last post (context is your friend), Google Experiment Radio Garden is worth a therapeutic visit. Your students will think it's just a chill moment, but secretly it… Read More
2022-03-03 23:09
I have been a longtime fan of maps as therapy tools. They promote spacial description skills, situational awareness and (literal) world knowledge, and can be used to link to narrative and ex… Read More
2022-02-04 22:47
It seems as though everyone is starting to exhale and feel a bit of optimism again after a disruptive turn in the pandemic this January 2022. It seems a good time to take stock and continue… Read More
2022-01-21 14:32
Well, besides the Jeopardescapade, this has been quite a crappy month for everyone. In Massachusetts, a huge surge in COVID infections after the holidays forced a lot of us to make changes a… Read More
2022-01-15 18:07
Sorry I have been quiet here a few weeks, but I've been just largely managing myself in the excitement and other emotions around my Jeopardy! episode airing on January 7. I appreciate the sh… Read More
2021-12-23 15:03
It seems appropriate after presenting at ASHA 2021 (glad we squeezed that in, huh?) about play, playful activities and games in language and social interventions that I get to tell you about… Read More
2021-12-10 21:14
Another take-away from ASHA Convention 2021 is the importance of self-care. Presentations I attended focused on strategies for ourselves and also those we can promote within our students and… Read More
2021-11-26 22:26
ASHA Convention was different, but it happened! Thanks to all the organizers for providing a safe and very educational event. I was honored to present on Thursday to a great in-person crowd… Read More
2021-11-12 14:09
I have previously written about the motivational and engagement value (thus promoting communication) of "room based" games. Now that we have transitioned back to in-person groups, we are inc… Read More
2021-11-06 16:54
I'll be presenting in-person at the 2021 ASHA Convention in Washington, DC! I hope that if you are attending, you'll come by for my session on Thursday, November 18. This presentation is lis… Read More
2021-10-21 21:46
I'll wrap up Consider This with an example from this week. I have a student who is a Red Sox fanatic (a husband too) and they are of course in the playoffs. This story surfaced and has a lot… Read More
2021-10-15 21:43
Consider This has mostly been an exploration of resources used a bunch of different ways, but we also can consider how different curriculum topics can be used to target many speech and langu… Read More
2021-10-01 16:56
The V in the FIVES criteria is for Visual! Visual supports are a simple Evidence Based Practice- give students something to explore with their eyes and you can tap:-description/main idea-voc… Read More
2021-09-24 13:13
Mindfulness should be considered right in the SLP wheelhouse. It a) is evidence-based, b) promotes self-regulation which underlies executive function, academic performance, social communicat… Read More
2021-09-17 14:44
Tech-based scenes, in which story grammar settings are presented and we can add characters and objects, suggest the creation of stories and other language targets. One of the simplest series… Read More
2021-09-10 17:32
I'm sick of talking about COVID. Obvi it's still with us, but I thought I'd frame the path forward instead of backward, and 6 parts of "Lessons from COVID" was enough anyway. A new school ye… Read More
2021-08-19 17:51
Picture (or other) books as an excellent therapy tool has always been one of my themes. In this post/video I demonstrate how to use Overdrive, which is one option for obtaining free e-books… Read More
2021-08-05 16:59
Purpose, it's that little flame, that lights a fire under your ass...-Princeton, Avenue Q (A song I sang at karaoke recently)I know I said I was done with anything touching on mental health… Read More
2021-07-02 21:01
In this series I have been discussing "lessons" from this difficult year: things that helped me get through but also will influence my work going forward back into "normal." One of these is… Read More
2021-06-23 21:02
Just playing on the title of last week's post, one lesson from this experience (almost all teletherapy, all the time) is the power of resources which allow you to have group members join a s… Read More
2021-06-18 17:49
I swear this is the last post touching on my (much better) mental health, but it also has some tech tips within, so I thought it was worth sharing. At the beginning of the pandemic, there wa… Read More
2021-06-10 21:27
As we close out what was frankly an annus horribilis for everyone, naturally including anyone in education or health care, I'd like to do so as positively as possible and share some lessons… Read More
2021-05-28 17:04
Having started as an elementary SLP, it's been one of my journeys to learn that with older populations, we need to keep it relevant. That whole Client Values prong of EBP can come into sharp… Read More
2021-05-20 23:20
I wrote about Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry's GoReact app some years ago, but their porting of it to a web version is even more useful in teletherapy or if students have their own… Read More
2021-05-05 22:25
I have spent a lot of time in recent presentations talking about establishing flow (the positive psychology concept) for ourselves and our students by incorporating interests. Flow can also… Read More
2021-04-30 15:37
The PBS Kids activities corresponding with the series Elinor Wonders Why provide a number of language targets and are another example of modern web design (i.e. not flash-based). I also like… Read More
2021-04-20 18:18
I have been doing social groups through teletherapy since March of last year. For absolutely everyone involved, in the context of this very looooong situation and too much online learning, i… Read More
2021-04-02 20:16
"Virtual field trips" can generate a lot of language and conversation. From spatial concepts about the globe to descriptive setting narrative work, providing a visual of a location can be a… Read More
2021-03-26 12:52
I've always observed an overlap between tech literacy/digital citizenship and safety with language and social skills-- probably why I have pursued the instructional tech and SLP sides of my… Read More
2021-03-19 21:06
You may have noticed that the Flashpocalypse occurred at the beginning of 2021. Flash was long fated to disappear eventually and a number of your favorite websites or interactives would have… Read More
2021-03-11 23:46
As I have, for now, continued to be doing mostly teletherapy for the past YEAR (that anniversary has been painful, so apologies for the quiet blog), I have found picture books invaluable. Ps… Read More
2021-02-12 22:24
i-Spy is a rich, simple interactive website that's like a Where's Waldo of New Zealand. You can play 5 different scenes and locate hidden animals, objects or people. I'd recommend the free p… Read More
2021-02-06 14:54
I have been researching and using a lot of Google Jamboard recently, and realized that it provides a good "table" to play games. One of my faves ever is Cranium Whoonu, a great get-to-know-o… Read More
2021-01-30 15:43
Google Experiments are, well, experimental websites that play with new features and aspects such as artificial intelligence (AI). These can show great use of the I- Interactive aspect of my… Read More
2021-01-14 19:07
Sometimes it pays to watch the commercials! GEICO has been doing a series of humorous ads for home insurance where the homeowners make a complaint that turns out not to be what we thought th… Read More
2021-01-07 22:09
Happy 2021! Not the happiest week, but I am still hopeful!If you are like me, you may have students moving in and out of groups and introduction activities can be helpful in "breaking the ic… Read More
2020-12-23 00:11
It was some year, for sure. In short, 2020 saw many of us becoming more tech-savvy because we had no choice and were working through an emergency. Still are. But there's hope ahead.Myself, I… Read More
2020-12-17 22:40
As SLPs, at times we need to assist our students with work that is a bit pointless. I recall that Social Thinking® had some material about this; as students we are expected to follow the… Read More
2020-12-11 22:07
I have mentioned here many times that I am often seeking to target language and social competencies through a self-regulation lens of late. An example of a context for this is the great seri… Read More
2020-11-20 23:56
This is a good week to remind you of a simple resource to help you and your students. I have written about Calm before but it seems it is more important than ever. We all need to take moment… Read More
2020-11-16 00:13
Facebook's "Memories" feature is sometimes not so great during a pandemic. You look back with a bit of a pang, right? "I can't do that this year..." This is best channeled with some hope, pa… Read More
2020-11-06 22:02
Gratitude is a Thanksgivingy theme...but actually much more than that. Much research has supported that practicing gratitude as a form of mindfulness can be self-regulating and cultivate pos… Read More
2020-10-29 21:05
Metacognition is all wrapped up in our language, social and executive functioning. To read a great explanation of how, see this article from Singer and Bashir (1999), two of my faves in the… Read More
2020-10-22 21:28
You know I am a Google Earth Geek. Always have been, but in this time it is nice to be able to use the context of "going someplace" to engage my students. Google Earth's quizzes (find in the… Read More
2020-10-16 19:44
Genius is a great website for looking more deeply at any song, and most you can think of are covered on the website. Just locate the song, and highlighted sections of it are annotated in the… Read More
2020-10-09 21:03
...and that's ok. Particularly in social intervention contexts, it's important to facilitate natural situations. That includes trying and failing with games- either because the group d… Read More
2020-10-02 15:13
October has two full moons, including the current one! Full Moon is a good example of the kind of game adaptable to therapy given a task analysis.In this game you navigate a bunny through va… Read More
2020-09-25 20:00
The 2020 Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards finalists were announced recently, a development I saw on the news (you never know where you will get therapy ideas). Based on the BBC story about the a… Read More
2020-09-18 16:50
Sharing simple visual materials in teletherapy serves a number of purposes:-Providing a context for conversation building-Building descriptive skills-Practicing observational skills ne… Read More
2020-09-11 18:49
A Dark Room is a simple click-to-play game that I have found to be a great social language context for a number of my groups, at different age levels. It starts with just having options to s… Read More
2020-08-27 22:02
I tried to take most of August to chill and recharge. Life didn't totally let me have that, but whattayagonnado, we're all dealing. I got to the Cape (my own state) and with a COVID test sat… Read More
2020-08-04 15:10
National Geographic Kids has a great page of personality quizzes i.e. what ____ are you? (ice cream flavor, planet, dinosaur). Each has just a few questions and provides an opportunity for e… Read More
2020-07-28 16:33
I have previously mentioned I am a big fan of the Scaredy Squirrel (Melanie Watt) series that is helpfully available on EPIC! Books. Over a number of weeks I had my students in one group com… Read More
2020-07-20 15:46
I have previously discussed here how visual supports and displaying visual materials provide an important layer and level within the Continuum of Technology Integration (developed with Natha… Read More
2020-07-07 15:11
In my last post I described the ongoing/current problem about obtaining clinical placements for graduate students and highlighted reasons we should be prioritizing supporting graduate progra… Read More
2020-07-02 19:39
I am hearing from some of my colleagues and friends at the graduate school level that they are finding it hard to secure placements for graduate students needing clinical practicum experienc… Read More
2020-06-23 22:37
In a terrific recent PD I watched, Rachel Madel made a great point: why use static photos or drawings to demonstrate verbs, when we have GIFs. GIFs (arguably pronounced with a soft "g" or li… Read More
2020-06-18 20:59
Every context has language underpinnings. Why not use contexts that promote anti-racism?Tomorrow is Juneteenth, the day that commemorates word of the Emancipation Proclamation reaching Texas… Read More
2020-06-16 22:01
Myvocabulary.com is a great source of contextual vocabulary lists. I found it recently when looking for lists like those contained in the terrific WWP-Vocabulary app. Working with vocabulary… Read More
2020-06-11 15:57
Super Duper Publications, a leading producer of speech-language materials, has refused to make any kind of statement on racial inequality despite being asked many, many times and while conti… Read More
2020-06-08 15:39
Shortcut by Donald Crews has always been one of my favorites to use in therapy. It's a personal narrative, so good for teaching story elements, with some suspense. This story has an importan… Read More
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