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I just love helping SLPs implement literacy-based therapy, but I know from experience that it’s not always easy to find the perfect reading resource for your mixed group! Because I’m always on the hunt for amazing articles to use, I put together a series of blog posts that highlight my favorites. This week is all about using articles to target Language goals. Click through to make your therapy planning easier!

Best Articles for Language Goals

I love sharing tips and tricks to help SLPs implement literacy-based therapy, but it’s not always easy to find the perfect text for your mixed group! Because I’m always on the hunt for amazing articles to use, I put together a series of blog posts that highlight my favorites. This week is all about targeting SYNTAX goals — click through to find the article list, aimed for students in grades 3-7!

Best Articles for Syntax Goals

It can be a challenge to find the perfect book when you’re trying to implement literacy-based therapy with a mixed group -- one that I know that struggle all too well. Because I’m always on the hunt for amazing books to use, I put together a series of blog posts that highlight some of my favorites. This week is all about: The Best Books For Vocabulary! Click through to find all 15 books, plus a brief description of each, over on the blog!

Best Books for Vocabulary

It’s not always easy to find the perfect book when you’re trying to implement literacy-based therapy with a mixed group. Because I know that struggle all too well (and am always on the hunt for amazing books to use!) I put together a series of blog posts that highlight some of my favorites. This week is all about: The Best Books For Later Language. Click through to find all 9 books, plus a brief description of each, over on the blog!

Best Books for Later Language

Best Books for Early Language

I love sharing tips and tricks to help SLPs implement literacy-based therapy, but it’s not always easy to find the perfect book for you mixed group! I’m always on the hunt for amazing books to use in therapy, so I put together a series of blog posts that highlight my favorites. First up is: The Best Books For Grammar! Click through to find the full list of 24 books on the blog.

Best Books for Grammar

The 2019 SLP Summit was SUCH a great online conference! Marisha McGrorty represented SLP Now and presented a session about teaching grammar in speech therapy. This blog post gives a recap of the SLP Summit grammar talk, so click through to find out what was discussed!

SLP Summit Recap

Been a reader of SLP Now for a while? We're so glad you're here, and we want to share which posts came in as our Best of 2018! Click through to find out our top five most popular posts and see if any of them were your favorites, too!

Best of 2018

Therapy planning doesn't have to be a headache. Wait, what?! I know, I know -- it sounds like crazy talk, but it's true! In this blog post, I go into detail about why therapy planning makes you a better SLP and helps you provide better speech therapy for your students. The power of planning is real, and it will make your life easier! Click through to read all of my suggestions and insight.

Why Plan: The Power of Planning

Mixed groups can be a challenge, including figuring out how to use books with mixed groups. How do you hit all of your speech students' targets with one book?! This blog post from an experienced SLP shares how to use books with mixed groups in speech therapy. Click through to read it!

Using Books with Mixed Groups

How to Get Free Books for Literacy-Based Therapy

How to Get Free Books for Literacy-Based Therapy

As an SLP, it’s an essential part of your job to collect data, which of course you know! However, sometimes we need to use that data to figure out if we’re providing speech therapy students with the right level of support. Probe data helps you do that, and this blog post explains how to effectively use probe data. Click through to get the full scoop!

How to Organize Probe Data

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