Language Therapy and Leadership for Pediatric Clinicians
If you’re working on social skills with students and seeing poor generalization, the solution is not more therapy materials. I’m often asked if I offer social skills activities that can be a quick “print and go” option for school therapists to do with students in a group therapy setting. I’m fully aware that if I…
What resources can I share with parents to build vocab at home? It’s a great question and it comes up a lot. Unfortunately, it usually comes in the form of “What app can I use to build my child’s vocabulary”? My response is usually that the best way to build your child’s vocabulary is not…
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…
Knowing exactly how to support parents can be tricky, especially when you’re concerned that people won’t follow through with their “speech homework”. What most people don’t realize is that when homework isn’t getting done, it’s often NOT a lack of motivation. Many parents I’ve worked with have expressed how overwhelmed they are when getting their…
Attention issues have gotten more and more prevalent in today’s world. There’s a lot of information out there about how to improve your child’s attention span. That can be a lot for parents to sift through-especially when come of the interventions are quite controversial. What most people don’t realize is that attention is a SKILL….
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…
Everyone is working really hard right now to make sure their speech and language services aren’t disrupted during the quarantine… Which means that we’re doing a lot of speech therapy online and sending a lot of activities home for practice. Many people are fearful that their clients will regress or that it will be too…
In the video below, I am joined by Julia Kuhn from The Traveling Traveler, and we’re going to talk a little bit about traveling therapy positions. To learn more, watch the video below: To learn more about how to get started with travel therapy, check out Julia’s course called “Guide to Travel Therapy” here. Video…
Let’s be honest…a lot of us don’t feel comfortable working with severe to profound students when we start out. Yet there are some SLPs who seem to have it all figured out. People listen to them and respect what they say. They have parents using AAC at home and teachers using it in their classrooms….
I remember one of the first times I had a student who used a high-tech voice output device. Getting the district to pay for the device was a huge hurdle, and I’d managed to overcome it. Little did I know I had a huge roadblock still ahead. By the time the shiny new device had…