Many SLPs have a hard time finding good language therapy resources that make their lives easier with their huge caseloads; which was my motivation for starting Dr. Karen Speech and Language back in 2015.
As we come to the end of the year, I wanted to take a quick second and highlight some of the most popular language therapy resources I’ve shared on my blog this past year.
Back in the spring, I wanted to make research more accessible to SLPs, so I started the category on my site called “Research Summaries for People Who Hate Reading Research.”
I hated how many research articles out there leave many clinicians wanting for more. We know how important research is to our field, and to creating good language therapy resources. But the clinical implications sections leave us wondering what we should do next.
That’s why in each of these summaries, I follow up with step-by-step plans that show you exactly what you should be doing in therapy based on the research. I either do this in the research summary itself, or in an follow-up article in a series.
The first three articles covered research-based ways to work on written language, narratives, and vocabulary in language therapy.
I eventually expanded on this concept and started expanding it in to a series. The first one was all about integrating morphological awareness in therapy, and the second one addressed writing goals for syntax and helping students meet them.
The last series of articles covered research on the root causes of reading comprehension problems; which are often misunderstood. It started with a case study of one of my students who had been working on comprehension with little success.
I told the story of how I evaluated him and expanded my narrow view of “reading comprehension” as I learned what was causing them in the first place. As I dug in to the research, the results surprised me; but I found that the role of the SLP in literacy is often more powerful that we realize.
As we come to the end of the year, I’d love to hear from you about what language therapy resources you’d like to see in the future.
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In the meantime, what language therapy resources should I make next year? Leave a comment and let me know.