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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

Every SLP encounters obstacles during speech therapy. This blog post shares 10 tools and tips for clinical problem solving, when SLPs might be at a loss for how to start a certain kind of therapy or overcome a challenge. Click through to read the 10 tips!

10 Tools for Clinical Problem Solving

As an SLP, you're all too familiar with goals, but you're usually talking about goals in the context of your speech therapy students. Now, you need to think about goals for yourself! This post is all about how to set and achieve SLP goals so that you can feel confident as a speech therapist. Click through to get these awesome tips.

How to Set and Achieve Your SLP Goals

You have strengths and accomplishments as an SLP, but sometimes it's easy to forget that when you get bogged down. This blog post helps you find your SLP superpower so that you can remember your strengths as a speech therapist during those tougher times. Click through to read the full post!

How to Find Your SLP Superpower

There is such a thing as Imposter Syndrome, and SLPs can feel it just as much as anyone else. When you're feeling a lack of confidence in your speech therapy abilities, take a moment to remind yourself how far you've come. This blog post gently reminds speech-language pathologists how to boost your confidence, so click through to read it!

How to Boost Your Confidence as an SLP

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