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In this episode of the SLP Now podcast, Marisha interviews Venita Litvack, an SLP and an expert in the realm of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC). Listeners will walk away with tons of great resources, and perhaps a new appreciation for literacy as a right for all learners, including those with disabilities.

#042: A Crash Course in AAC & Literacy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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