Language Therapy and Leadership for Pediatric Clinicians
The members of the Effective Language Therapy for SLPs group recently took a vote about what topics they wanted to study, and one topic that came up was morphology and it’s impact on spelling and language processing. No one seems to doubt that morphology is important. What isn’t clear is WHEN and HOW we should…
One of the biggest challenges for speech pathologists treating kids with language disorders is knowing how “normal” language development looks over the school-age years. We have a lot of language developmental milestones charts out there, but most of them end around age 6. After that, you’ll be hard pressed to find a neat little chart…
What do you do when you inherit an IEP from another SLP and you aren’t sure if the goals are appropriate? What happens if you decide to shift the focus of your language therapy before the IEP is due? These questions have come up in our member’s FB group for Language Therapy Advance Foundations, as…
The other day in my Language Therapy Advance Foundations program, some of my students asked how they should prioritize when they have students who need help with both vocabulary and grammar. They were wondering which to target first. My answer was this: Why not BOTH at once? We often think of language skills, like semantic…
What REALLY needs to happen for language therapy to be effective? (hint: a lot of it happens before you even walk in to the therapy room) This is EXACTLY why it’s so hard to get it right… If you’re an SLP, you may have noticed that there are TONS of different therapy materials to choose…
If you struggle to find an effective way to boost language processing, you’re going to want to check out the video below I used to feel like I was jumping around from skill to skill in therapy. Wh questions… Following directions… Verb tenses… Grammar worksheets… Stating the main idea… The list went on and on….
There’s a lot of debate as to whether or not SLPs should even be addressing parts of speech in language therapy. Some say we shouldn’t do it because it’s not functional. Some say it’s the teacher’s job and we don’t have time for it. Other say it’s super important because no one’s taking the time…
A lot of the goals I see for pragmatic language center around “appropriate behavior”. And a lot of the questions I get about social skills interventions are about how to write/track those goals effectively. You may have noticed that a lot of your students in this population get reprimanded for acting out in class or…
The SECRET to creating consistent language therapy breakthroughs is to KEEP IT SIMPLE. That’s why in my signature program for SLPs (Language Therapy Advance Foundations), I show SLPs a set of systems and strategies they can use to seamlessly plan sessions with minimal effort and minimal materials. When you have the right systems, you aren’t…
Since the SLP world has had to switch to telepractice this past month, I’ve been getting tons of questions about how to get started. That’s why I wanted to get you the answers you need from a seasoned teletherapist. This past week, I had the honor of interviewing Tracy Sippl from S & L Teletherapy…