Vocabulary in Speech Therapy

Teaching vocabulary is a vital part of our jobs as SLPs. But how can we possibly go about teaching all the vocabulary a student needs to improve their communication abilities? The simple answer? We can’t, so we need to teach them strategies instead.

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I read Bringing Words to Life a couple years ago and loved it because it provided such simple and straightforward ways to improve vocabulary. Some of the ways we can improve vocabulary are teaching Tier 2 words (high frequency words found across content areas), teaching roots/suffixes/prefixes, and teaching context clues. All of these skills will help provide students with strategies to learn words rather than having them memorize definitions of lists of words.

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