Speech and Language Support
Teaching Ideas & Strategies — Supporting communication in every lesson.
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Collaborating With Speech-Language Pathologists: A Teacher's Guide
How classroom teachers and SLPs can share goals, plan lessons, exchange observations and follow referral steps so students get consistent support.
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Supporting Students Who Use Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
How to presume competence, model language on a student's AAC system, keep it available all day and work with the team that sets its goals.
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Classroom Strategies for Students With Articulation Difficulties
How to listen for the message, respond when you can't understand a student, protect participation and reinforce SLP goals for speech sound needs.
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Supporting Pragmatic Language and Social Communication in the Classroom
How to teach the unwritten rules of conversation and group work respectfully, without treating communication differences as misbehavior.
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Supporting Expressive Language: Helping Students Explain, Retell and Find Their Words
Practical ways to help students build sentences, retell events in order, work around word-finding pauses and talk through ideas before writing.
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Supporting Receptive Language: Helping Students Understand Classroom Talk
Classroom ways to help students understand questions, concept words and spoken explanations, and to teach them to ask when they don't understand.
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Understanding Speech and Language Development in School-Age Children
How speech and language keep developing from kindergarten through high school, and how to tell a language difference from a possible disorder.
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Supporting Speech and Language in Every Lesson: A Practical Classroom Guide
Practical ways to support listening, vocabulary and speaking in every lesson, work with your SLP and know when to raise a concern.
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