Buzzing about Speech & Language
One of the most common goals that I see in my preschoolers is identifying action verbs. This isn’t surprising. They need to understand actions before they are able to follow directions, give a command, or put sentences together. Understanding how to teach action verbs to young children can be kind of tricky. If you show your student the same picture… Read More
Looking for some easy fall speech therapy ideas? Welp, it’s that time of year. Goodbye, summer. Hello, pumpkin spice everything. It’s finally fall. Down here in the south, it means that we can actually go outside without passing out. The kids can tell the weather is nicer too and often itch to go play outside. Luckily, I’ve got 10 perfect… Read More
I remember when I met one of my preschool language students for the first time. He had just turned 3 and was transitioning to the schools from our birth to 3 program. I think a good word to describe him would be “energetic.” Admittedly, I wasn’t prepared for the energy. There was a lot of, “Look at the book. Oh,… Read More
You know how the beginning of the school year is always chaos? It’s a crazy mess of quick IEPs, make your speech therapy schedule, finding out where students are, planning, rearranging schedules, and trying to get your mindset out of summer mode. Everyone knows that the WORST part is always scheduling. Coming up with your speech therapy schedule is a… Read More
When it comes to speech therapy planning, you probably fall into one of two camps. One, you are spending hours coming up with therapy ideas and trying to keep up with meticulous planning each week. Two, you’re like, “what planning?” and just wing it each day. Well, friend, there is actually a middle ground. What if I told you that… Read More
It’s all about SLP resources and shortcuts this week! I hope you’ve enjoyed the school-based series this month! We’ve talked all about the many roles and responsibilities that SLPs have. And we even dove into a few things that I wish I would’ve known before starting in the schools. The paperwork load for SLPs is overwhelming. In this post, I… Read More
The other day I did a poll on Instagram. I asked what the hardest part of our job was as school SLPs. The vast majority said paperwork, of course. But in second place, was IEPs and evals. Many said they would love some tips for writing IEPs because they were struggling. IEPs are tough because it’s hard to keep up… Read More
Last week in our school SLP blog series, we talked about the many roles and responsibilities of SLPs in the schools. One of those responsibilities is the dreaded SLP paperwork. Paperwork is a sore subject among school-based SLPs. Why is it such a sore subject? Well, it’s all part of the unrealistic expectations placed on SLPs and the constant changes… Read More
You’re back in grad school. Classes are intense. Clinicals are overwhelming. The amount of coursework expected of you is not doable by any human, and you’re wondering if the stress of it all will ultimately be your demise. Sound familiar? Here’s what I want to know. How is it that with all of that work, we were still not well-prepared… Read More
My student stared at me across the kidney table with big brown eyes. I recognized the blank look. We had read a passage together, and now I was asking him questions about what we read. We needed to back it on up a step. I took out a shorter passage that included a visual picture. We read it and referenced… Read More
