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In this blog post Monica, a school-based SLP reviews the importance of targeting sequencing and shares tips and therapy ideas. 

How to Target Sequencing Goals

SLP, need help writing goals for your clients? While we can't write the goals for you, we CAN help make the process a bit easier. This post has tips that will help you with goal writing for your students.

5 Tips to Write Speech Goals for IEPs

SLP Summit Q&A: Strategies for Narrative Intervention

Looking for ways to support engagement during virtual and in-person therapy? Check out these free online, print-and-go, and material-free games.

Free Speech Therapy Online Games and In-Person Activities

This is a list of go-to speech-language therapy apps and how they can be used for interactively targeting communication skills.

29 Apps for SLPs to Target Communication Skills

Semantic mapping is also called semantic feature analysis. It is an evidence-backed vocabulary intervention technique that helps students map out how words are related to each other and develop a deeper understanding beyond labeling.

Vocabulary Approach: How to Use Semantic Mapping & the Research Behind it

Review four evidence-backed approaches to target summarizing (previewing texting structure, integrating graphic organizers, teaching summarizing strategies, and encouraging self-monitoring).

Summarizing and Main Idea Intervention: A Practical Review

This is the definitive guide for SLPs offering teletherapy. We'll review technology, environmental supports, and virtual assessment/intervention considerations.

The SLP’s Guide to Virtual Speech Teletherapy & Language Assessments

Given the importance of complex syntax in the classroom, SLPs may target expanding sentence length beyond the simple sentence framework with younger students. The blog post breaks down the evidence and provides practical strategies.

Evidence-Backed Strategies for Complex Syntax Intervention with Younger Students

SLP Summit: A Crash Course in Literacy-Based Therapy for Teletherapists

Best FREE Reinforcers for Teletherapy

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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