These days, it’s not JUST about information overload. It’s also about MISinformation overload.
Back when I first started practicing, I found language therapy to be super overwhelming. There were so many peer-reviewed articles, books, and seminars.
Sifting through that all and trying to apply it to a real-life therapy situation seemed like a daunting task. These days, therapists ALSO have to sift through materials from popular online vendors and social media content…some of it being very low quality.
This constant flow of input makes it really hard to FOCUS, which is the key to being successful if you want to make the most of the precious time you have with your students.
I do what I do in order to be a solution for that problem.
I get hundreds of emails each month from SLPs sharing their most common language therapy challenges, and although times have changed, the basic questions stay the same.
I hear things like:
“Where do I even start?” “How do I know what skills are most important/how to sequence/what to focus on?”
“How do I write good goals?” When I dig a little deeper, I usually find that people are making ONE of three common mistakes.
Now it goes without saying…these are SUPER common.
I know because I used to do every single one of them due to lack of clarity and info overload. So if any of this sounds familiar, you’re certainly not alone.
These three patterns are what informed the framework I teach SLPs designed to build the language skills kids need to support language processing, literacy, and high-level strategic thinking (i.e. executive functioning).
I share what they are and why they’re so important in this FB live.
In this FB live I mentioned the 5 component framework I teach SLPs to help them avoid the common challenges I describe in the video and help them create an evidence-based language therapy system.
This is what I teach in my course for SLPs, Language Therapy Advance Foundations. You can learn more about what’s included in that program here.
