The Speech Therapy Blog
This speech therapy blog is your go-to location for parent support, speech therapy materials, assessment knowledge, and CEU opportunities. We have summarized research into digestible, usable bullets.
As we share our stories, we want you to be a part of the conversation. Speech-language pathology can be overwhelming at times. There is an intensity to serving children with needs and managing high administrative demands. And yet we love what we do. This blog, like many speech therapy blogs for SLPs is a respite from the hectic nature of our lives.
We are part of your village. SLPs, you change the world—one session at a time. Let’s get to work.
Latest Speech Therapy Blogs & Tips
Teletherapy with Young Children : Great Resources
For most of us, this whole idea of teletherapy is a new thing. We can wrap our minds around how to intervene with an older child pretty quickly. Even a bilingual older child makes sense, well, for 1: they talk! and for 2: which we can't take for granted, they can use...
A Day in the Life of an SLP Amid COVID-19
The COVID-19 Reality These last few weeks have been abrupt, anxiety-inducing and mind-boggling. As we find our footing for our new normal alongside COVID-19, there are BIG feelings within our homes and SLP communities. I want take some time to acknowledge the...
Responding to the COVID-19 Outbreak
Hello SLP community, As I write this, we are winding our office down to begin a period of working remotely. Never before have any of us seen something with this breadth and depth of impact on our world. Restaurants and bars are closing or reducing services, grocery...
Supporting the Grief of our Families: 3 Strategies for SLPs
This post is dedicated to my parents. To the mothers, fathers, grandparents, foster parents, family members and caretakers who care so very much. Thank you for letting us into your lives. It is truly an honor to serve in this capacity. Woes of the...
The Value of the English Language
What If They Don't Learn English I had just spent the morning talking about Difference versus Disorder. Is the child still learning his second language of English or is there a true disorder? It was time for lunch, and I found myself sitting in a car...
Hopping into Spring Speech-Language Therapy Activities
The winter holidays are long gone, and the warmth of spring is (hopefully) on the horizon. Today we want to share with you some of our favorite themes for this season of growth. Spring Speech and Language Therapy Activities The following speech-language sites...
The Tale of One Speech-Language Pathologist
The following post is written by Chelsea Cornejo, a Bilinguistics team member. We share her sentiments with gratitude for the narrative she brings to our professional and human community. Latinx Perspective I am Mexican-American. Spanish was my first...
What Do Parents Want in a Speech-Language Pathologist?
Let's Talk, Parents Recently, I reached out to the families I have supported in my professional career over the last two decades. I spoke to Anne. I met her son, John, in 2002 when I was in graduate school. I spoke to the families I serve now,...
Faster Report Writing Tip #10: Track Every Move
Welcome back to our series on report writing. Today, we are going to talk about tracking every move in the assessment process. Check out our first post in this series on setting up a report template and work your way through the series. There are many steps involved...
Bilingual Education Models
For those of us who work in the schools we hear the term Bilingual Education and it is often accompanied with other descriptors, such as two-way, early exit, transitional, and so on. Today, we’re going to break these bilingual education models down for you. Last year...
Faster Report Writing Tip #9: Fluency Assessment Tables
Welcome back to our series on report writing. Today, we are going to talk about fluency assessment tables that autocalculate. Check out our first post in the series on setting up a report template. Let’s face it. Fluency assessments take some...
Why do we have new ethics requirements?
Why have ethics? Why has our field decided that you need to sit here and study about ethics? Why weren't the requirements here last year? What has changed if anything? In 2002, the United States ranked #20 in most ethical countries. Behind countries like Denmark, New...
Trending Speech Therapy Blog Categories
Thank You for Making Us One of Best Speech Therapy Blogs for SLPs!
The best speech therapy blogs out there (which we are proud to count ourselves among!) do a few things very well.
The Best Speech Therapy Blogs Listen
In your over 1800 comments you have told us what you need, what is going wrong, and when we gave you resources or information that hit home. When we see patterns in what is being commented on and read, we know what to research next to improve our lives collectively.
They Challenge Ideas and Produce Results
The best speech therapy blog essays call it like it is but then give examples, ideas, materials, and products that are real solutions that will work for anyone serving in a real environment. Caseloads, paperwork, and budget cuts anyone? The popularity of our 650+ essays is a testament to the fact that SLPs are not afraid to speak their minds and that we want the same change you do.
They Connect Humans
You have been our shoulder to cry on with tears of happiness and dismay when this unique experience we call speech language pathology moves us. So many connections and collaborations have come out of the interactions between the 40,000+ subscribers who have found kindred spirits who share the same passion.
Wow, I love this post! Thank you for illuminating the special nature of being able to enter a person’s home to work with their child.
Sarah
This was such a concrete explanation of how important language specific constraints are…I’m grateful for this excellent resource, and will be sharing it with my grad school peers.
Jamey
Thank you for this thought provoking read! As someone who has been an SLP for over 40 years, I have to agree with the majority of what you reported. I look forward to reviewing the supporting studies in the future!
Cynthia
We have faithfully committed to publishing at least one speech therapy blog essay every Thursday. This isn’t always easy with report deadlines and kids to see.
YOU have made us one of the best speech therapy blogs and the change we can effect when everyone works together motivates us to keep researching, collaborating, and sharing out great work.
Subscribe and join us in making the world of speech language pathology a better place.
Find us on: