Pragmatics Archives – Therapy Insights

Figure It Out Figurative Language and Idiom Practice Game

January 31, 2024 by Ashley Zhinin.

This board game provides a quick and easy way to target idiom practice with either individuals or groups of clients.

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Get to the Point: Practicing Main Idea Finding and Information Filtering

November 30, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.

Use this resource as a template and guideline to support teaching and learning how to find the main idea in short texts.

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Build Your Own Social Stories for Daily Living Activities

October 31, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.

Use this interactive activity to work on building social scenarios for practice in therapy sessions and for generalization outside of therapy.

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How We Feel: Emotions and Feelings Flashcards

October 31, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.

These cards provide a quick, easy-to-use visual way to learn, generalize, and practice emotions and feelings for pre-literate or literate populations.

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Self-Advocacy Statements > Social Skills Worksheet for Neurodiverse Teens

March 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.

Utilize this worksheet with older clients to promote self-advocacy skills instead of neurotypical behavior social skills training. Video on how to use this resource:

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Relationships, Friendships, and Successful Social Communication: Addressing Disability (2018)

November 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.

This article reviews a variety of research papers related to friendship and social communication in the autistic community. The World Health Organization’s Classification of Functioning framework and the social model of disability state that although individuals may be challenged by their health impairment, disability is created by barriers to access and independence in society. Clinicians […]

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Therapy Session Ideas to Support Development of Perspective-Taking

August 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.

This resource provides ideas for simple ways to target perspective-taking in therapy sessions across ages.

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Building Blocks: Using Block Manipulatives To Target Goals

June 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.

This resource outlines ways to use stacking blocks/Lego items to tackle multiple therapy session goals.

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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: From Identification to Intervention

February 8, 2022 by Megan Berg.

This course explored the FASD diagnostic process, including identification and evaluation. The presenter uncovered common comorbidities and misdiagnoses for children with FASD as well as common communication deficits in people with FASD and offered techniques and intervention strategies for how to promote support and success for clients with FASD.

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Conversation Extension Activity—Engaging Game to Promote Extending Back and Forth Exchange

January 31, 2022 by Megan Berg.

This resource is designed to help expand conversations for easier generalization for clients who have mastered back and forth conversation, but need support advancing those skills.

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