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In this episode of the SLP Now podcast, Marisha and guest Angie Merced, an SLP and certified Life Coach, dig into the phenomenon of SLP burnout, and examine some specific practices that can help you to manage workplace stress and strike the right life-work balance for you.

#041: How to Tackle SLP Burnout

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In this episode of the SLP Now podcast, Sarah Lockhart shares her experience as a teletherapist. She provides a realistic overview of the benefits and challenges of telepractice and shares a variety of practical tips, strategies, and words of wisdom. This episode will help SLPs who work in this setting up their organization game, and help SLPs who are considering making the switch determine if telepractice is the right move for them.

#040: A Crash Course in Telepractice for SLPs

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In this episode of the SLP Now podcast, Caitlin Lopez shares her experiences with mindfulness as a school-based SLP. After a thoughtful discussion of the benefits of teaching our students mindfulness, Caitlin provides listeners with practical tips and strategies to get started with mindfulness and incorporate it into their therapy sessions. There is so much goodness in here for helping students and SLPs. Check it out →

#039: A Crash Course in Mindfulness for SLPs

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In this episode of the SLP Now podcast, Marisha sits down with pediatric SLP Allison Cloutier to discuss how they use literature in speech/language therapy with early learners. Alison shares strategies to select high-quality books and engaging activities when targeting speech and language goals with early learners. As per always, relevant evidence and practical demonstrations will be provided to show SLPs how they can implement evidence-based strategies when targeting goals with the littles!

#038: Tips for Success with Literacy-Based Therapy: Early Learners

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In this episode of the SLP Now podcast, Marisha dives into how she uses literature in speech/language therapy, and how she uses a five-step process to facilitate meaningful and functional outcomes for her students. She shares strategies to select high-quality texts and how to use those texts when targeting speech and language goals with older students (think middle and high school aged!).

#037: Tips for Success with Literacy-Based Therapy: Later Learners

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In this episode of the SLP Now podcast, Marisha dives into specific strategies that speech-language pathologists can use when implementing the fifth step of the literacy-based therapy framework: creating a parallel story. SLPs will walk away with fresh ideas and practical strategies that they can use to create parallel stories with students of all ages.

#036: Tips for Success with Literacy-Based Therapy: Parallel Stories

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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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