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!

Get our 15 most popular SLP resources to
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Data Collection Solutions
How to Manage Paperwork
Speech Room Organization
7 Organizational Tools
Cut Paperwork Time in Half

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

Working as an SLP is a rewarding career, but sometimes it feels isolating when we feel that our role is misunderstood or when there’s a disconnect with other school staff. This blog post shares six steps to successful communication with teachers to help you work hand-in-hand with the teachers of your speech students!

6 Steps to Successful Communication with Teachers

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Therapy Ideas

The 2019 SLP Summit was SUCH a great online conference! Marisha McGrorty represented SLP Now and presented a session about teaching grammar in speech therapy. This blog post gives a recap of the SLP Summit grammar talk, so click through to find out what was discussed!

SLP Summit Recap

Been a reader of SLP Now for a while? We're so glad you're here, and we want to share which posts came in as our Best of 2018! Click through to find out our top five most popular posts and see if any of them were your favorites, too!

Best of 2018

Therapy planning doesn't have to be a headache. Wait, what?! I know, I know -- it sounds like crazy talk, but it's true! In this blog post, I go into detail about why therapy planning makes you a better SLP and helps you provide better speech therapy for your students. The power of planning is real, and it will make your life easier! Click through to read all of my suggestions and insight.

Why Plan: The Power of Planning

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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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