Foundational Language Skills Needed for Self-Advocacy
Before students can effectively advocate for themselves, they need a functional foundation of semantic, syntactic, executive functioning, and pragmatic skills. Here’s a list of the skills you can target in speech therapy to make sure they have what they need for self-advocacy.
A Two-Step Framework for Teaching Self Advocacy
Help your students get past the “I don’t know what to say” phase of self-advocating with this simple, two-step framework for self-advocacy.
All Students Deserve Functional Language
We’ve often narrowed our definition of “functional language” to the point that some students are left out of valuable services. What should we be looking at with our middle and high school students to make sure their language is truly functional?