If there ever was a buzzword in the last few years to use with any of your social students, it has got to be ”expected” and “unexpected.” These two words, coined by Michelle Garcia Winner and the Social Thinking team as part of their larger Social Thinking® Vocabulary, changed the way we thought and taught social communication and thinking. I… View Post
International students seem to have a thing for Australia. Back when I was studying, my Master’s program was one-fifth North American and it brought an interesting mix of perspectives and peanut and jelly sandwiches to the program. So if you’re thinking of chucking it all in, doing the move and adding “G’day” into your everyday lingo, here are some things… View Post
Stereotyping is not my intention here. It’s just that I’ve been hanging out on Instagram and Facebook a bit more frequently than usual and – well, okay… if I’m honest I’ve been glued to my phone like a millenial (crap, is that me stereotyping again?) and it’s suddenly dawned on me that SLPs have a lot of things in common… View Post
“Wait a minute, I’ll just look that up and tell yooooou… sorry, I just need to find where I put it. Umm, okay, let me Google it! Alright, ‘Final consonant deletion elimination’. Come on Google – sorry, my computer’s really slow. Oh! Here it is, I’ll just click here, huh, wait for it to load… There we go! Okay, so… View Post
Imagine this: there is an epic battle going around you. You hear screams ‘aaaahhhh’ and soft, little whimpers as last breaths are drawn. Your opponent ever so slowly turns to face you and you know that this can go either of two ways. They quickly draw two cards and flip them over. It’s not looking good. “My kangaroo is going… View Post