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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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How Hearing Loss Affects Speech – Grad School Rewind
A great deal of research focuses on how hearing loss affects speech. We wanted to create a quick summary so we can identify what’s important during the speech evaluation process and see how hearing loss affects speech in the academic setting. So let’s roll...
How Hearing Loss Symptoms Get Confused with Communication Disorders
Let’s face it. Obtaining a correct hearing screening before completing an evaluation is often a hassle. Not to mention that 99% of the time a child’s hearing is within normal limits. However, each year we hear about evaluations that were disasters at...
“Hears” How We are Celebrating Better Hearing and Speech Month
We got this email a while back that didn’t make us feel too good. “Thank you for everything you do! Considering that you serve hearing-impaired kids, would you include closed-captioning on your courses and videos?” An SLP was pointing out that Bilinguistics...
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Culturally Sensitive Communication – Tips for SLPs
Is your parent interview form culturally sensitive? Does it ask any questions that make assumptions? Does it ask any questions that are none of your business and don’t have an impact on speech and language skills? We set out to create a parent interview form that...
Building Relationships with Families to Maximize Clinical Outcomes
Parent Involvement in Speech Therapy Yes, we all know that parent and family involvement in speech therapy has been shown to improve therapeutic outcomes. Accomplishing successful family involvement in therapy can be challenging though. We’ll share some ideas in this...
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.
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