In case you missed them, here are a few pieces I have written for ASHA and Mindwing Concepts. Happy Summer Reading! I'm off to Maine tomorrow with my Kindle.
ASHA Leader:
July 2017, App it Up in the City of StarsMobile apps can help you make the most of your trip to convention in Los Angeles.
April 2017, Joint Parent-Child App Play Can Bolster Language Development: SLPs can show parents how to harness apps to get their children talking at home.
January 2017, Using Apps to Meet Multidisciplinary Treatment Goals: App-based collaboration with other professionals can propel clients’ treatment progress.
Mindwing Concepts Blog (focusing on narrative and expository discourse and social communication through narrative):
Beach Stories
Narrative and Expository Language through Duck, Duck, Moose's free apps
4 (and More) Ways to Tell the Story Digitally
More on Social Detective Work with Social Thinking® and Social Skill Builder
Note: Author receives compensation for blog content from Mindwing Concepts Inc.
Monday, July 31, 2017
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Summer Reading, Part 3
One of the resources that has been helping me read more is Goodreads, a database of books and reviews. Goodreads integrates well with your Facebook account, and this is helpful both for pulling in friends and seeing what they are reading, and allowing you to post to Facebook about your own books. It creates kind of a positive peer pressure for reading, and this makes Goodreads a helpful tool for us, and potentially for clients as well. Encouraging clients to use Goodreads to find books similar to what they have enjoyed could potentially get them to read more, and also be an outlet to help them write about what they have read. A few other features of Goodreads that I enjoy:
-The mobile app is excellent, and in fact a little better than the website itself.
-Goodreads allows you to mark books as "Want to Read" and this is a good place to keep a list of this kind when you encounter book recommendations, preventing you from getting "stuck."
-The site provides recommendations based on what you have read and how you have star-reviewed books.
-It integrates with the Overdrive-Kindle connection (mentioned in my last post) so what you are reading through there is automatically added to your "Currently Reading." There are other features such as a Chrome extension that allows you to see which of your To-Read books are currently available on Overdrive.
-The mobile app is excellent, and in fact a little better than the website itself.
-Goodreads allows you to mark books as "Want to Read" and this is a good place to keep a list of this kind when you encounter book recommendations, preventing you from getting "stuck."
-The site provides recommendations based on what you have read and how you have star-reviewed books.
-It integrates with the Overdrive-Kindle connection (mentioned in my last post) so what you are reading through there is automatically added to your "Currently Reading." There are other features such as a Chrome extension that allows you to see which of your To-Read books are currently available on Overdrive.
