Language Therapy and Leadership for Pediatric Clinicians
One of the most common questions I get from clinicians who work with school-age kids is about scope and sequence of therapy. “How do I make time to address all these skills my students need?” “How can I help students generalize skills from one setting to another?” “How can I help the other people on…
It’s possible to provide quality therapy as an SLP without burning out. When I started my first SLP job in the school systems back in the early 2000s, I felt like a “Jack of all trades, master of none”. There were so many different cases falling on my plate, and I didn’t feel like an…
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…
A lot of my course members have been asking about different online platforms, HIPAA compliance, how to adapt activities to virtual sessions, ASHA’s standards, etc… So started putting together this resource list with all the helpful pieces of information I’ve found so far.This list includes things that will help you: …Choose the right teletherapy platform…
I remember my first year as an SLP. I heard lots of sensational stories about how rewarding it was going to be…and how it was going to be so nice to be done with work at 3 PM and have the summer off. But when I actually got in to my job the whole “get…
In the video below, the topic of the day is salary positions versus hourly positions for clinical and educational professionals. I know a lot of the readers are SLPs. We might have some other types of therapists and teachers, some school administrators, of other related professionals. To learn more, watch the video below: Video Transcript:…
When I’ve mentored SLPs in the past, I’ve found there are a lot of myths floating around in the field about what it takes to run a successful business as an SLP, as well as your income potential. Starting a business can be uncomfortable, and people have a lot of objections to stepping out on…
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…