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Latest Speech Therapy Blogs & Tips
Speech Therapy Inclusion
Less than 30% of speech pathologists do speech therapy inclusion. Yet, classroom based therapy gives us the opportunity to: Improve our relationships with teachersHave our therapy directly map onto academic goalsReduce our therapy planning by using the content and...
Here’s how to gather a Bilingual Speech and Language Evaluation Sample
This article contains the step-by-step process you can follow just like I did when you need a bilingual speech and language evaluation sample for your report. Truly, it is the best, fastest, and most accurate way to diagnose a bilingual child. I have a...
Great Speech Session: Win the Heart to Win the Head
I’ve spent approximately 9,720 hours doing speech-language therapy, and I’ve discovered the secret to a great speech therapy session. Evidence-based practices are essential to our success. However, to me, there is something else that supersedes the...
Spanish Cleft Palate and VPI Resources
Cleft Palate and VPI resources are hard to come by as it is, let alone information in Spanish. Even if you are a non-Spanish-speaking SLP who works with diverse populations, it would still be nice to have something to show parents and caretakers. Highlighting...
Speech Referrals: Great Interactions with Teachers!
The Speech Referral Process has a huge impact on the work we do. It influences how many children we see, how big our caseloads are, and how enjoyable our interactions are with teachers and other campus professionals. We have had a huge surge in the number of...
What’s in a Name? Everthing, SLPs.
Say My Name Beyoncé and I have so much in common: our love for Texas, mutual respect for Sir Jay-Z and difficult-to-pronounce names. Now, I admit that Queen Bey (with 17.2+ million albums sold) might now be a household name. However, I’m confident that 8-year-old...
Speech Therapy for Down Syndrome
Speech Therapy for Down Syndrome is quite Unique Children with Down Syndrome are truly unique in the way that they communicate and interact. Treating these children can often be difficult because this syndrome involves so many different developmental domains,...
Articulation testing: Why don’t the percentiles line up with the standard scores the way they are supposed to?
As one of the authors of the Bilingual Articulation and Phonology Assessment app, I get to field questions from all of the great SLPs who use this amazing tool. One of the questions I get a lot is about the standard scores and percentiles. They don’t look like...
Planning for Speech Therapy
Back-to-school quick tips for planning for speech therapy When I pack up my stuff each May I write notes to myself in the third person telling myself what to do in the fall. It has become a routine that makes me laugh hysterically because May is typically so...
Communication and Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Infection
Hey Everyone! Every so often you get a kid on your caseload or open their evaluation intake form and see a word that you never new existed. So what do you do? You Google it, only to find out there is precious little information on how this...
How to Be a Successful Speech-Language Pathologist in 5 Steps
Where: ASHA Connect I just returned from ASHA Connect 2017 in New Orleans, and I am floored. I now know the secret of how to be a successful speech-language pathologist. So, here's what happened. I, along with 5 fellow SLPs, were given the task...
Prevent Over Identification – Bilingual Speech Students
How Phonology in Bilingualism Contributes to Over Identification: A Case Study We have all seen comparisons of Spanish to English that help us work with children across languages. But what do we focus on in our English-only therapy with children who speak...
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