Language Therapy and Leadership for Pediatric Clinicians
One of the most effective ways to build our students’ language skills is to make them better storytellers. This can have a powerful impact on their success in school and life. In this section, you’ll find out how to do it.
If you’ve been doing language therapy for any length of time, you’ve probably had this experience: You sit down to plan, and you’re trying to decide what to focus on. Should you be working on comprehension?Or should you go back to foundational language skills?Should you be targeting vocabulary? Syntax?Should you be layering in executive functioning?…
I get a lot of questions about how to write functional language goals, as well as how to improve language and vocabulary with “functional” activities. Usually the underlying question behind all of these surface-level questions is this: “How do I make sure my therapy will yield results in real-life situations outside my sessions.” OR “How…
The interesting thing about mentoring SLPs is that I get to see what clinicians are doing in a number of different situations and settings across the US (and often, the world). I’ve found that many of the SLPs I work with seem to have similar struggles when it comes to language therapy. The biggest complaint…
Have you ever felt like you should be doing more “push-in” therapy instead of resorting to the standard “pull-out” model? If you’ve ever felt this way…it’s okay to give yourself a break. Why? First of all, it’s probably not your fault. Scheduling can be a disaster. With the large caseloads we have, it can seem…