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SLP Summit Recap: How to Thrive as an SLP

As SLPs, we have very busy jobs, and it's easy to fall into overwhelm and burnout. We have large caseloads, tons of different speech and language skills to target, and a variety of different ages of students to work with. It’s understandable to get burned out! In this blog, I'm sharing actionable tips for recovering from burnout, so click through to get these tips.

How to Recover from Burnout

This blog post shares free resources for Better Hearing and Speech Month that make for fun ways to help others understand what SLPs do and why!

5 FREE Resources to Educate Teachers During Better Hearing and Speech Month

It's my birthday!! I am so excited to celebrate with you, and to do that we are doing a GIVEAWAY — 10 of my favorite tools and resources as an SLP. Not only do you have a chance to win an SLP Now membership (to make your therapy planning easy peasy), but I'm also giving away some of the books I've been sharing as part of my literacy-based therapy series on the blog, as well as some gift cards and supplies for keeping your class stocked and tidy! #OrganizationNerdForLife 🤓 Be sure to click through and check out all the details!

Marisha’s Birthday Giveaway

If you have any students with a lateral lisp on your caseload, then you’ll want to read this interview with an SLP who treated a student with it. She shares her experience and what she learned for how to support this student in speech therapy. Click through to read her interview!

Stepping Outside Your Comfort Zone with Lateral Lisp

If you have considered early intervention as a speech-language pathologist, then read this interview by an SLP who tried it out for a year. It may be the right choice for you, and it may not, but this field of speech therapy requires a different approach than working in schools or in private practice. Click through to read the interview!

Stepping Outside Your Comfort Zone with Early Intervention

If you have students with hearing impairments on your speech therapy caseload, then you might be at a loss as to how to most effectively help them succeed. We interviewed an SLP who specializes in auditory verbal approaches and the hearing-impaired population. Click through to read her insight!

Stepping Outside Your Comfort Zone with Hearing Loss

Communicating with parents is a key aspect of our roles as SLPs, and sometimes it can be intimidating to have a parent meeting because of uncertainty of the parent’s reaction. We interviewed an SLP who shared how she prepared for successful parent communication and how she built rapport with the mother in this scenario. Click through to read the interview!

Stepping Outside Your Comfort Zone with Parent Meetings

Do you have speech students who struggle with fluency? Fluency disorders can be quite inconsistent, and therefore, treating them in speech therapy can be a challenge. The SLP we interviewed for this post shares her strategies when targeting fluency goals. Click through to read her advice!

Stepping Outside Your Comfort Zone with Fluency

It can be very easy to feel like you’re working alone when you’re a school-based SLP. Sometimes it’s hard to collaborate with your teacher colleagues, for a variety of reasons. This blog post shares an interview with a school-based SLP who figured out how to make teacher collaboration work for her. Click through to read her insight!

Stepping Outside Your Comfort Zone with Teacher Collaboration

We've been working on a series about confidence for SLPs and about stepping outside your comfort zone as an SLP. We're ready to wrap that up and are excited to announce the succeeding series of blog posts for speech therapists. Click through to get more details!

Stepping Outside Your Comfort Zone as an SLP

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