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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.
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The 6 Primary Down Syndrome Characteristics that Impact Communication
Children with Down Syndrome are truly unique in the way they communicate and interact. Speech therapy can often be difficult because Down Syndrome characteristics involve so many different developmental domains. For example, there are anatomical and physical...
4 Important Considerations Conducting Bilingual Language Evaluations
What do we have to think about when we are conducting bilingual language evaluations to determine whether a child has Developmental Language Disability? Dr. Elizabeth Peña of the University of California, Irvine shares her thoughts. The process of evaluating bilingual...
What is an SLP? The Not-College-Brochure Answer
Many undergraduates happily stumble upon the field of speech-language pathology through required science courses, like Language and the Brain. They may not realize right away what a speech-language pathologist (SLP) does and what education is required to get...
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An Amazing Explanation of Auditory Processing
Auditory processing overlaps with so many of the difficulties that we are treating and diagnosing in speech pathology. Does a child have a receptive language disorder or is he having difficulty processing what he is hearing? Is a bilingual child so new to learning...
How Much Time Does It Take to Remove a Student from Your Caseload?
A recent essay: Are All of the Greatest Problems in Education Related? caused quite a bit of thinking on the parts of SLPs all over the country when we were talking about reducing our caseload. Most people are on board with the idea but an interesting problem arose:...
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.
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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.
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