Buzzing about Speech & Language
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
Are you a grad student or CF looking at jobs in the school system? Or maybe you are thinking of switching settings from a medical to a school SLP. Just like with any job, there are pros and cons. You may have heard of some of them for the school SLP. Here are a few common ones: When it comes… 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
Give me all the sunshine and bunnies and eggs and flowers…and maybe a few Easter books for my speech therapy sessions. I love when the weather starts to warm and the humidity starts to drop around here. But I know when that happens, the kids get antsy and I get busy. They can feel summer coming and so can the… Read More
When I first started working, I only did speech therapy theme activities around Christmas time. There was no Instagram back then, so my therapy ideas came from the Super Duper catalog and things I made on my own. It wasn’t until I got connected to the broader SLP world that I realized the magic of using themes. It seriously cut… Read More
