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In this episode of the SLP Now podcast, Marisha wraps up the three-part series on grammar, by talking about how to target later grammar goals. She shares therapy plans that are practical, actionable, and target a variety of goals. From compound/complex sentences to passive voice; adverbial clauses and relative clauses → She covers them all in the context of a (you guessed it!) literacy-based therapy unit.

#035: How to Target Later Grammar Goals in Therapy

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This week on the SLP Now podcast, we're continuing with part two of our three-part series about grammar. We're going to build on the foundation we laid in last week's episode, diving into therapy plans + targets for early grammar goals in the context of literacy-based therapy. SLPs will learn the five steps of a literacy-based therapy unit, evidence-based strategies that can be used to target students’ individualized grammar goals, and a few practical therapy activities that can be used when targeting grammar goals!

#034: How to Target Early Grammar Goals in Therapy

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In this episode of the SLP Now podcast, Marisha does a deep dive into evidence-based grammar intervention strategies. From identifying relevant targets to using them effectively in therapy, the evidence behind the intervention, to practical applications in practice... She's going to cover it all.

#033: Evidence-Based Strategies for Grammar Intervention

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This week on the SLP Now podcast, Marisha reviews the top 5 most downloaded episodes of 2019. This collection of episodes covers topics like the complexity approach, fluency therapy, getting organized as an SLP, motor-facial exams, and the cycles approach. Full-length episodes are eligible for ASHA credits thanks to SpeechTherapyPD.

#032: Best of 2019

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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.

#031: Practical Tips for Treatment of Childhood Apraxia of Speech

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In this episode of the SLP Now podcast, Kristin Chmela discusses the role of counseling when working with students who stutter. SLPs will walk away with practical tips and strategies to navigate communication attitudes with confidence. Listeners will be able to describe why counseling is an integral part of fluency therapy, and identify strategies to use when counseling patients who stutter, as well as working with the parents of students in fluency therapy.

#030: How to Address Communication Attitudes with Children who Stutter

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In this week's episode of the SLP Now podcast, Nicole Allison of Speech Peeps shares strategies that SLPs can use when targeting phonological awareness in therapy. With a focus on practical implementation, SLPs will be able to identify strategies to use when writing phonological awareness goals, confidently select progress monitoring assessments, and describe therapy activities that target phonological awareness goals.

#029: How to Target Phonological Awareness Goals

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In this week's episode of the SLP Now podcast, Marisha is joined by Corey and Mikayla from Ascend SMARTER Intervention to help break down phonological awareness for SLPs. They describe the phonological awareness hierarchy and provide practical strategies that SLPs can use to support a student’s phonological awareness in therapy.

#028: Where to Start with Phonological Awareness

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