SLP Now Blog

A blog created for SLPs--by SLPs! Featuring therapy ideas and resources to helps busy SLPs streamline their caseload management.

Regain Control Over
Your Caseload & Confidence
in Your Therapy

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Regain Control Over Your Caseload & Confidence in Your Therapy

See How We Can Help

Proven strategies and therapy activities to conquer your caseload without breaking a sweat (or missing your lunch break).

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Work Smarter, Not Harder

Getting ahead and making an impact shouldn't take every minute of every day. Do better therapy in less time!

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Simplify Your Therapy

With tips and time-saving materials, you'll be starting (and ending) the day on top of your to-do's.

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Increase Your Confidence

With the tools and guidance to put your book knowledge into practice, your confidence is going get a boost!

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Data Collection Solutions
How to Manage Paperwork
Speech Room Organization
7 Organizational Tools
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Welcome! I'm Marisha...

I am a school-based SLP. I love organization and finding creative ways to be more effective as an SLP and I share that with you!

I love planners, Staedtler pens, and chai tea lattes.

More About Me >

Welcome! I'm Marisha...

I am a school-based SLP. I love organization and finding creative ways to be more effective as an SLP and I share that with you!

I love planners, Staedtler pens, and chai tea lattes.

More About Me >

Caseload Management

We ALL know that there are a lot of SLP lies floating around -- lies that we tell ourselves about what we can or cannot get done for our caseloads. This blog post shares some of the more common lies that SLPs tell themselves AND it provides tips for overcoming those obstacles. Click through to learn these tips to help you become a more efficient speech therapist!

5 Lies that SLPs Tell Themselves

There’s no doubt that being an SLP is a stressful job. We often have large caseloads, tons of speech and language skills to target, different grade levels to work with, and lots of behind-the-scenes tasks to tackle. In this blog post, I’m sharing eight ways to reduce stress at work -- it IS possible! Click through to read these tips for school-based SLPs!

8 Ways to Reduce Stress at Work

Listen, every SLP needs time-saving hacks in their life. We have too much to do and too little time! This blog post shares six time-saving hacks that speech therapists can use with their caseload to make their workload more efficient and more manageable. Click through to learn all the tips, and don’t forget to actually implement them!

6 Time-Saving Hacks for SLPs

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Therapy Ideas

This week on the SLP Now podcast, Marisha sat down with Amy Graham, an apraxia expert who owns a private speech language pathology practice in Colorado Springs. They discussed assessing oral-motor and oral-mechanical exams, tips for administering an evaluation, distinguishing between proprioceptive vs motor planning issues, and more. This episode is full of practical tips and applications that SLPs can use right away.

#017: How to Tackle Oral-Facial Exams

SLP Summit Recap: 5 Evidence-Based Strategies for Effective Vocabulary Intervention

We've been diving into a review of Articulation Approaches on the SLP Now blog, and this post is all about the Cycles Approach. Some studies have found that the Cycles Approach results in improved consonant production in conversational contexts, and that children with less severe phonological and language impairments improve in both domains when the Cycles Approach is used. Click through to learn about Jayden, a four-year-old preschooler whose speech difficulties were creating frustrations for him, and how the Cycles Approach improved his intelligibility.

The Cycles Approach for Articulation Therapy: A Case Study

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Speech Room Organization

It’s an excellent idea for SLPs to use themes to organize book units in speech therapy, but it can feel like a daunting organizational task. This blog post dives into a tutorial about how to organize a book unit using the materials available in the SLP Now membership. Click through to get insight on how to shorten your planning time!

How to Organize a Book Unit

Curriculum-based therapy takes some upfront work to get it going, including a plan for organizing therapy materials. This blog post provides a brief description of how I organize curriculum-based therapy materials, including both organization and storage tools and speech therapy materials. Click through to read the tips!

How to Organize Curriculum-Based Therapy Materials

Speech Room Organization: Skills

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