Teletherapy, distance learning, and remote learning are the new buzz words these days. Since in person speech therapy isn’t possible right now, our profession has made a shift to the virtual realum of service delivery, basically overnight! Thanks to Teachers pay Teachers, BOOM Cards, and more the whole ‘what the heck am I going to use for materials’ part of…
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Things have changed fast thanks to COVID-19. SLPs continue to do what we SLPs do best, roll with it. This means putting together packets for families, assigning digital materials to Google Classrooms, and planning for teletherapy sessions. With this new style of therapy, I can’t run to the copier ( pray that it wasn’t jammed ) and copy the handful…
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Recently I came across some Yeti games, and then some Yeti books, and then some Yeti clipart…and down the rabbit hole I went. I loved the idea of have a theme that didn’t necessarily have to tie to a specific holiday or month and was different from the typical winter and snowman topics that our kids have done for years….
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Back to school, apples, pumpkins, Halloween, Fall, Thanksgiving, turkey, Christmas, Hanukah, winter, snowmen…the beginning of the year is packed with themes and ideas for therapy. Then, February has Valentine’s Day, March has St. Patrick’s Day and so on…but what about January? By the time you get back to school the New Year has had its moment and is done. There…
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Literacy-based therapy has become quite a buzzy term lately, but what is it, really? In short, it is using books ( or other literature ) as the foundation for your therapeutic interventions. Did you know that almost half of preschool children with language-impairments develop significant literacy learning difficulties ( Aram & Nation, 1980) even if their delays appear to be…
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Shifting your language from words that have a heavy correlation to the negative can have a positive impact on everyone.
Cost Effective Ethics CEUs for SLPs
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Have you heard about the new ethics CEU requirement that ASHA is rolling out, effective 2020? Many individual states have also recently implemented an ethics course requirement as part of the renewal process for individual
Following Directions Dough - The Speech Bubble
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I love doing hands on activities. I find it offers opportunities for real world application of the skills we have been working on in speech. However, doing these activities isn’t always in the cards. They can take a long time to prep, use a lot on ingredients, have a long wait time until you can [...
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I want to begin by saying how much I enjoyed today’s sessions! You all are fabulous presenters and I learned so much! I feel much more prepared for teletherapy this next school year after today’s presentations!
