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

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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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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

The Importance of Parental Involvement (And How Teletherapy Can Help)

Resources for SLPs During School Closures

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

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Therapy Ideas

This is a list of go-to speech-language therapy apps and how they can be used for interactively targeting communication skills.

29 Apps for SLPs to Target Communication Skills

Semantic mapping is also called semantic feature analysis. It is an evidence-backed vocabulary intervention technique that helps students map out how words are related to each other and develop a deeper understanding beyond labeling.

Vocabulary Approach: How to Use Semantic Mapping & the Research Behind it

Review four evidence-backed approaches to target summarizing (previewing texting structure, integrating graphic organizers, teaching summarizing strategies, and encouraging self-monitoring).

Summarizing and Main Idea Intervention: A Practical Review

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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

Do you need to work on your organizing skills in your speech room? This blog post is all about how I organized my tools and materials in my speech therapy room -- all as inspiration for you! As SLPs, we can accumulate a lot of stuff over the years, so speech room organization is a must in order to keep our little rooms from getting too crazy. Click through to learn more organizing skills for your speech room!

Speech Room Organization: Skills

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