We are excited to share the CDC Milestones App with you. It’s a convenient way to track your little one’s development from birth to 5 years old. Although the app is currently only available in English, they are slated to release the Spanish version this fall! The app...
We continue our adventure into less common board games to use with our students. Unfamiliar games are fun and motivating for them (and you)! Our second game is called Duplik. The photos from our Instagram post are of the first publishing of this game, which was called...
Many students struggle with contextual writing and the writing process as a whole. At Language & Learning, we use an acronym called UPOWER to help students tackle the writing process strategically. U: Use the Prompt Many students have trouble understanding and...
Many of our students have trouble explaining information. Why is this? Is it because they do not understand what they are talking about? Not necessarily. To understand the “why,” we need to understand the context of what is expected from them. As students progress...
Writing may be particularly troublesome for students with language difficulties for a number of reasons, including its demands on spelling, sentence formulation, working memory, word retrieval, language organization, and linguistic executive functioning skills. At...
This cloud-based software is a favorite of mine for students who struggle with any number of aspects of written language. It is a particularly useful tool for students who struggle with expressive language formulation and syntax, word retrieval, vocabulary, encoding...
