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Did you catch the SLP Summit? I hope so! I wrote this blog post to answer some of the most frequently asked questions! Click through to get all kinds of practical tips to help you implement literacy-based therapy with your caseload!

SLP Summit Recap: Literacy-Based Therapy Q&A Part 2

Keeping track of therapy activities, student work, and data is easier said than done! Student folders are a great way to keep track of it all! Learn how to set up and organize your student folders here.

How to Set Up Working Student Folders

Wondering how to best approach grammar intervention? Check out this post for an evidence-based framework that you can use in your speech therapy sessions.

How to Teach Grammar: A Framework

Struggling with those following directions goals? Of course, Johnny can follow 2-step directions in the therapy room with 80% accuracy, but why does his teacher say he can't follow ANY directions?! Let's talk about some strategies to facilitate generalization and promote student success with this skill in speech therapy!

How to Teach Following Directions

Feeling overwhelmed in your speech therapy sessions? Not sure how to effectively introduce new skills? Check out this post for some strategies to increase your confidence and reduce the overwhelm!

How to Teach Skills in Therapy

Wondering how to use curriculum-based reading passages in your speech therapy sessions? Click through for some tips and tricks!

How to Empower Students to Love Curriculum-Based Reading Passages

Check out this list of quick tools that you can use in your speech room to make curriculum-based therapy fun and engaging for your students.

Quick Tools for Fun Curriculum-Based Therapy

Student goals are just as important in the speech room as they are in the regular classroom. They can feel overwhelming and hard to manage, but I've found an easy system that I'm sharing in this post. Click through to read about it and to download a freebie!

Speech Room Organization: Student Goals

Looking for ways to keep your students engaged in speech therpay? I've rounded up a long list of FREE open-ended reinforcers from a variety of teacher-sellers that you can download now and use right away! Plus, the themes span the entire year, so you'll have something for every season!

A Year of FREE Open-Ended Reinforcers

Looking for a quick and easy gift for your students this holiday season? Check out this free gingerbread playdough mat!

Gingerbread Man Student Gift

Do you like using nonfiction books in your speech therapy sessions? Click through to read about a nonfiction collection that I've recently discovered and LOVE! You'll be excited to incorporate these books into your therapy, too!

Nonfiction Books in Therapy

Have you used water beads in your speech therapy room? They are a fun tool that you can integrate with a variety of speech and language skills, including following directions, articulation, turn-taking, and more! Plus, kids loving working with them, and it makes speech more relaxing for them! Learn more about them in this post.

Water Beads for Speech & Language

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