Ms. Ghosh

Feb. 12, 2009

Students working on Social Skills & Pragmatics, please click on the page to the right titled "Why Did They Do It?", for your most recent assignment.  Thank you.

Length Of Time A Student Has To Remain In Speech

If you are assigned to speech class, you probably want to know how long you will have to come. 

The answer is, It all depends.

Sometimes a student only has to learn a specific skill, and in a year or two the teacher (or therapist) can easily see that he or she is ready to graduate.

But other times a student has a number of skills to work on, or the speech skills are hard for him/her to learn.  In that situation it’s difficult for the teacher (therapist) to say exactly when the student is ready to graduate.

If that’s true for you, then you know all about having to keep trying even if progress is slow.  But don’t be afraid that therapy will never end! Fortunately, as students become more mature, they also become more efficient at learning.  When the therapist sees that you are starting to learn things effectively, then he/she can begin to get confident that you will eventually graduate from speech.   

But before this can happen, the therapist has to see you performing for a while in order to judge that your learning is solid. Usually, this takes about six to eight months from the time she/he first notices that you “get it”. After this, if you continue to show mastery of all your speech skills, your parents and therapist will probably be ready to discuss the possibility of graduating from speech.

Mouth "Painting"

Parents of students practicing speech sounds -

Click my email address icon to request a copy of the explanation of this fun and helpful technique.  It is designed to help students to visualize and accomplish correct placement for the speech sound(s) they are working on.

Sep. 29-Oct. 3

Students working on Pragmatics/Social Skills - check new page on right hand side of the screen.  Thank you.

Sep. 29-Oct. 3

Students working on your speech sounds:  Check for procedures on page titled "Students Working On A Speech Sound(s)".

Sep. 29-Oct. 3

Read the Page titled "Social Skills...the Hidden Curriculum" and do the one-item quiz.  In Speech class, tell me if you got it right.

Week of Sep. 29-Oct. 3

Read the Page titled "Social Skills...the Hidden Curriculum", and do the one-item "quiz".  In Speech class, tell me if you got it right.

Sept. 23, 2008

As we go through the school year, you will be able to find general information on how to do your Speech practice.  Look through the Pages, to the right, as well as the recent Posts in the center of the page.

New School Year 2008-09

Welcome to Ms. Ghosh's weblog at mcCleskey Middle School.  Speech students, as the year goes on you may expect to find speech homework assignments here.

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