Language Therapy and Leadership for Pediatric Clinicians
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…
What REALLY needs to happen for language therapy to be effective? (hint: a lot of it happens before you even walk in to the therapy room) This is EXACTLY why it’s so hard to get it right… If you’re an SLP, you may have noticed that there are TONS of different therapy materials to choose…
Should SLPs be working on spelling? Short answer: YES! But not in the way you’d think. If you’ve ever thought spelling was the teachers’ job… Outside of our scope… Unimportant to language and it’s overall meaning… Too time-consuming to incorporate in to language therapy… Then you’re going to realize as you watch this video that…
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 my last post about SLP survival, I promised you some school SLP scheduling email scripts, so today I’m delivering on my promise. These deceptively simple templates for emailing teachers are what I’ve used to communicate with teachers at the beginning of the school year, so I can set my schedule with as little stress…