By Christine Ristuccia, M.S. CCC-SLP President, Say It Right During the holiday break, I embarked upon the daunting task of organizing my entire house. What an emotional feat it was to purge the things that I no longer needed, while forging through all of my things, as well as my kids’ belongings, going from room to room and categorizing like objects such as baking supplies (flour, sugar, measuring cups, etc). To make my organization...

Halloween is a fun occasion to celebrate with your students in the classroom, and here are some creative ways to add a Halloween spin to your speech therapy curriculum. Read all about Halloween in Say It Right’s Celebrations and Seasons Workbook. Ask students why questions afterward (who, what , where,  when, why, how). Using the Seasons and Celebrations Workbook, ask your students to listen for Halloween words and then write them...

    I met with a parent this week for a student who has a phonological disorder. It was an annual review meeting and previous goals were  reviewed. The previous goal was written in jargon that only a speech pathologist would know with no baseline results.  This made it difficult for me to measure progress, the parent, teacher  and school administrator did not understand the phonological processes jargon. It made me reflect on...

  Importance of a conversational speech sample A fluency student of mine had a trienniel evaluation coming up.  I administered the Stuttering Severity Index  and did not notice any dysfluencies.  I was still seeing him for intervention and decided to walk around the track with another fluency student so we could engage in a naturalistic conversation.  I heard part and whole word repetitions during his conversational speech sample.  I...