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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

Are parent conferences coming up? Check out these five quick tips for SLPs to make parent conference a breeze - and easy for you to manage!

How to Survive Parent Conferences

Do you use QR codes in your speech room? If not, then you're missing out on lots of good ways to integrate technology and boost student engagement! I'm sharing a step-by-step tutorial on how to create QR codes in this post so that you can start making - and using - them today!

How to Create QR Codes

SLPs can work on growth mindset, Whole Brain Teaching, and other such strategies with their students, just like teachers do. Check out this brief post about brain model talk and learn how you can incorporate it in your speech room!

Brain Model Talk

Keep your speech therapy students motivated and engaged with these goal bunting! Functional speech room decoration at its best!

How to Increase Student Goal Awareness: Goal Buntings

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