Language Therapy and Leadership for Pediatric Clinicians
These articles outline cutting-edge language therapy strategies and activities that SLPs can use right away. No more digging through research articles and technical jargon. I tell you exactly what you need to know and what to do in your therapy session.
Since I provide a lot of online content, I often get asked if people can share my information for professional presentations, with clients, or with colleagues. In this post, I wanted to share some guidelines you can use for sharing online content, as well as some things that are specific to resources I offer. If…
Figuring out how to build listening and reading comprehension in students with language issues is a tall order. There always seems to be a million skills they’re struggling with and not enough hours in the day to get to them all. Let’s face it, there are a lot of articles, studies, presentations, materials (and so…
Do you ever feel like you should be doing more push-in services? Push-in services and co-teaching seem to be the rage these days. Many of us are getting pressured to get in to classrooms rather than pulling kids out; which means leaves us scrambling to figure out how to make it work. Some of this…
Literacy intervention for SLPs treating students with language disorders is a hot topic these days. The problem is that there isn’t a clear consensus about where SLPs should intervene which makes it really hard to figure out what we’re “supposed” to be doing. That’s why today I’m going to share some important research findings that…
There isn’t a week that goes by that the typical pediatric SLP doesn’t wonder how to fix their students’ reading comprehension problems. The problem is that most people are doing this backwards for kids with language processing issues. Many are skimming over some of the basic foundational skills our students need to be good readers…
There’s no question that language processing and reading comprehension go hand-in-hand. We know that our vocabulary skills have a huge impact on our ability to understand what we’re reading… Yet for students with language impairments, the reading strategies they’re learning in school could be missing the mark. This was definitely the case with my student…
Have you thought about morphological awareness lately? If you have students with weak vocabulary, grammar, and spelling skills, it might be time to start. It can be hard to figure out how soon we should start teaching students about morphology and building their morphological awareness skills. In this article, I’m going to summarize a study…
There isn’t a week that goes by that I don’t hear an SLP out there cry in frustration: “I’m NOT a speech teacher! I’m a freaking SLP!” And for good reason. No one likes to be mislabeled or misunderstood, and when it comes down to it, a lot of people don’t REALLY understand what we…
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…