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scoring the bus story test

In order to gain point for the information score, does a child literally needs to use the morfology given as a guideline?

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Speech development, 34 months

How clearly should a 34 month-old be speaking. Should any of their speech be intelligible to a stranger? Is speech made up of mostly babble still appropriate?

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High Frequency Speech Therapy Materials

Are you working on speech therapy generalization? If so, these high frequency speech therapy materials is just what you need!

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Dismissing A Student From Speech

If I have a student only working on articulation and the student as mastered all of his speech goals, is using his sounds consistently in conversation,

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Speech language service in Virginia schools

Why are teacher aides allowed to pull students and work on the speech therapists goals without the SLP present?

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Bilingual children's accent

Hi my wife and I were born in the US and have a generic American accents. My children were also born here in New Jersey. My older son is 4 and we spoke

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Normative sample

If bilingual students are included in normative sample of a language assessment, can you report scores for bilingual student instead of just describing

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Articulation

I’m currently working as a private SLP and I have a 5yo who came to me with substitution of /t/ for /s/ and /sh/. He immediately was able to correct his

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ABA therapy

Hi, my name is Jackie and I'm currently a grad student in the speech speech program at USC. For one of my assignments, my professor wants us to ask fellow

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Basal and Ceiling Question--Please help!!

I was trying to reach a basal on a test and the child got the first one wrong (at his age level) so I worked backwards. The basal is 8 and the ceiling

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Bridget is an ASHA certified, practicing speech-language pathologist. She is passionate about providing parents with information on child speech and language development as well as provide functional, easy activities to do at home! Parents have the power to make a real difference. Follow Bridget at Facebook and Pinterest for more fun!