Language Therapy and Leadership for Pediatric Clinicians
One of the most effective and efficient ways to help our students generalize skills is to build their metacognitive and metalinguistic awareness. The articles in this section will show you how to add this “meta” focus so you can build strong language skills.
A lot of people ask me what’s inside Language Therapy Advance Foundations, my signature course that shows SLPs a systematic, evidence-based approach to boosting language processing and academic language skills. That’s why in this post, I wanted to share the overview of how the techniques in the program work. The video below comes directly from…
Is the “Essential 5” language therapy framework right for my caseload? This is a common question I get about the system I teach to help SLPs systematically boost their students’ academic language, processing, and comprehension skills. So that’s why in the video below, I dive into some of those FAQs, like: Will it help with…
Why isn’t there a language therapy curriculum? When I ask SLPs what would help them feel more confident, a lot of times they say that they wish there was a standard “curriculum” they could use for language therapy. When I was first practicing as an SLP, I wished for something like this. I was jumping…
A lot of people think executive functioning skills are just about “being more organized”…but there’s a lot more to it than that. Executive functioning skills enable us to engage in productive behavior towards a specific goal. They help us focus, figure out specific steps to take, and then do those steps in a reasonable amount…
When I talk to the different SLPs I mentor, I usually hear the same things over and over again: They want to be able to go to work confident and actually SEE their students making progress… And they want to do it without sacrificing the rest of their life in the process.They’re starting to realize…
A lot of speech-language pathologists address the skill of categorization in language therapy. The problem is that many of them make a key mistake that limits their students’ ability to generalize. In this video I share how to fix that problem. Why target categories in language therapy? Many speech-language pathologists know that their students struggle…
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…
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…
A lot of the SLPs I mentor share that they feel pretty lost when it comes to language therapy. Some of them feel like they’re guessing at what to do next or just haphazardly grabbing games off their shelves… Instead of doing what they WANT…which is walking in to sessions 100% confident that they’re setting…
“I only have 30 minutes a week with my students. How am I supposed to get to all these language skills?” “I don’t even know where to start when it comes to treating language disorders.” “I’m supposed to be the ‘language expert’, and I feel like an impostor. I’m so overwhelmed!” I hear things like…