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Latest Speech Therapy Blogs & Tips
How to Happily be an SLP #4: Interact with Teachers
In our fourth installment of this series, I want to share a secret I have for making my SLP-life easier. I interact with teachers! Sure, I gabbed with teachers when I was a school-based SLP. You know what? I still talk to teachers as a clinic-based SLP. Sometimes,...
SLP #3: Save Time and Money Speech Language Therapy Materials
In our last two posts, we talked how to be a more effective, efficient and happier SLP by making your efforts more cumulative and doing intensive speech therapy. Today, let’s talk about where we can get great speech therapy materials. Here’s the...
SLP #2: Articulation Activities for Dismissals
In our last post, we talked how making your SLP-efforts cumulative helps you be a more effective, efficient, and happier SLP. Today, we are going to talk about how one articulation method can: 1. Get students to generalize their sounds and graduate from speech therapy...
SLP #1: Cumulative Speech Therapy Planning
As a former school-based SLP, I have lived and reveled in the life of working in the schools. As a former district and regional lead, I have supported many (happy and unhappy) SLPs. And, now, I currently serve clients through our clinic. I would like...
Speech Therapy Video Tip: Story Grammar Rap
We hope our last speech therapy tip about goals was fun and helpful. This week we would love to share one of our most effective, short videos about working on story grammar. SLPs have used this strategy, and we are thrilled with the feedback. "It was...
Rock your Therapy with Scaffolding Strategies
Two types of people should read this essay: 1. If you are new(er) to speech pathology you can implement the following strategies in any therapy session and enjoy a level of success that only experience normally allows. 2. If you are experienced you probably...
Increase Intervention with the Same Planning Time
We are great at speech therapy planning but what if we could magically triple our therapy time for the same amount of effort? I feel like this should be an infomercial but read on, it's really true! We spend a great deal of time planning for our therapy and as...
Welcome Back! Part 2: 30-minute speech therapy sessions
I can't believe it is fall already but I have accepted that it is here. Here are some quick tips for effectively running your speech therapy sessions. 30 minutes can be the fastest time interval if you have planned for it or the slowest if you didn't have time to put...
Welcome Back! Quick Pre- Lesson Planning for Speech Therapy
Are you kidding me! It’s fall? 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...
Top 10 Speech Therapy Resources
We wanted to share with you our Top 10 List of Speech Therapy Resources that have been downloaded from our SPEECH THERAPY MATERIALS PAGE over 10,000 times in the last year. We are sharing these valuable materials with our blog community for free! Are you...
Research on the Benefits of Shared Reading
This essay goes out to the nerds among us who demand proof for intervention strategies before implementing them (kudos). We are huge advocates of literacy-based intervention and are frequently asked: Why do you use storybooks in intervention? Storybooks have...
Quickly Improve Speech Therapy Following Directions Data
The internet abounds with tips and tricks for speech therapy following directions ideas. Fun-fun activities can be downloaded from sites like Pinterest to focus on how to improve the way a student follows directions. From a speech pathology perspective we...
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