Author: Brett McCardel, MS, CCC-SLP
What are your go-to treatment approaches for writing at the single word-level? ๐โฃ
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Though the specific treatment technique used will depend on your clientโs individual needs, itโs helpful to be familiar with a variety of approaches so that youโll always be ready to go at a momentโs notice! ๐๐ผ๐๐ผโฃ
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Here are 3 different approaches that youโll want to have in your clinical toolbox:โฃ
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๐๐ป๐ฎ๐ด๐ฟ๐ฎ๐บ, ๐๐ผ๐ฝ๐, ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น๐น ๐ง๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐ (๐๐๐ฅ๐ง): This is a lexical treatment designed around spelling a word via letter tiles, copying the word via handwriting, and then reproducing the word again once letter tiles and models are removed. Check out @tactustherapy for an in-depth step-by-step guide to this treatment! โฃ
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๐๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐ง๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐: This approach guides clients to use phonological skills and orthographic knowledge to generate plausible spellings and to then detect and correct spelling errors (link to resource for this approach in comments)โฃ
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๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฆ๐๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ๐
๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น ๐ง๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐: This treatment emphasizes working on all aspects of the writing process in order to strengthen both lexical retrieval and phoneme-grapheme correspondence. Be on the lookout for a guide to this treatment from Archways soon!โฃ
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Though these 3 approaches differ in what processes they target, for each of them youโll want to be sure to select target words that are functional and meaningful to your client. ๐๐ผโฃ
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Family member names and favorite activities are some common categories that target words often come from. Work with your client to determine what words they want to get back to writing again! โ๐ผ โฃ