As a school-based SLP, tackling preschool language therapy can be both challenging and rewarding. Helping young children develop their language skills is crucial to their academic and social success in the future. However, it can sometimes be difficult to find engaging and effective activities that hold their attention and provide the necessary stimulation for their […]
Supercharge your Sessions: 5 Easy Tips for SLP Data Collection in Mixed Groups
Back to school in the speech therapy world means SLP data collection. It also means playing the scheduling Tetris game. You’ve got a lot of students, a lot of schedule restrictions, and only so much time in the day. Inevitably, you’re bound to end up with at least a couple of…cue the sad violins…mixed groups. […]
6 Tried and True Speech Room Decor Tips for Back to School
Speech room decor and designs don’t have to be fancy. It can be as simple or as cutesy as you have time to make it! One thing it needs to be, though, is purposeful. Here are 6 different speech room decor tips to set up your speech room for success this back-to-school season! *This post […]
6 Expert and Easy Self-Advocacy Activities for Stuttering Therapy
For clinicians, finding activities for stuttering therapy can be a little tricky. It’s not the most common speech goal that we target. Sometimes, we don’t feel super confident when working with these students, since it might not be our area of expertise. Plus, the research lately has been a little all over the place. Do […]
No Fail, Quick and Easy Spring Ideas for Speech Therapy
When March rolls around, so do the referrals and deadlines and everything else. The last thing this SLP has time for is planning for therapy. This is the time for quick and easy spring speech therapy ideas that’ll keep everyone engaged. Well, I’ve got you. Here are my favorite no-fail, easy-to-implement spring speech therapy ideas […]
Speech Therapy Caseload Management: 5 End of Year To-Do List Tips
One area a lot of school SLPs struggle with is speech therapy caseload management. When there’s no caseload cap and the expectations put on us are out of control, it’s no wonder we struggle. Speech therapy caseload management can refer to several areas. Today we’re going to focus on the paperwork aspect. Not only do […]
20 Easy to Grab Toys to Target Core Words in Speech Therapy
Let’s chat core words, ya’ll! *This post contains Amazon affiliate links. When working with preverbal students who are just learning to communicate, it’s not always easy to know where to begin. If you wade through the research, you’ll probably learn that the core vocabulary approach is one of the most effective ways to help early communicators […]
Prompting in Speech Therapy: Quick Tips for How to Use Gestural Prompts
As SLPs, we all use prompting in our speech therapy sessions. It helps us build upon what a child already knows by scaffolding the skills that we target. There are many forms of prompts and scaffolds. We’ve spent time talking about the importance of verbal prompts and visual prompts in the past. Today, let’s chat […]
Preschool Language Goals: How to Effectively Teach Functions of Objects
One of my most common preschool language goals in speech therapy is object functions. In order to teach a skill effectively, you want to be really confident in the why and how of what you’re doing, right? Today, we’re chatting about the benefits of teaching functions and a few quick tips on how to do […]
Free Stuttering Parent Handout and How SLPs Can Effectively Support Parents
Just here for the free stuttering parent handout? Go ahead and skip to the bottom, but if you want a few rock-solid tips first, read on! 😉 As pediatric SLPs, we often have the privilege of supporting parents. Because stuttering can be variable and unique, many parents don’t fully understand it. They see their child […]
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