Many of my colleagues working in the public sector are skeptical of companies selling products to school districts.  I’ve felt some of this skepticism myself as I’ve seen certain approaches gain traction because they’re well-marketed (yet not evidence-based).  So it’s understandable to me that...

Many people treat social skills groups as if they’re the complete package, when in fact they’re just one part of a bigger service plan.  When we “lesson plan” we can’t think of our intervention as something that starts and ends with a 20-minute therapy session. Instead, we should think of it as a...

Syntactic use is considered an “academic” skill that’s useful for reading comprehension and writing, but the impact of sentence comprehension goes way beyond school. Our ability to comprehend messages at the word and sentence level in oral and written language has a huge impact on our ability to...