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Therapy Plans

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

Once our students learn all of these great vocabulary words, how do we make it stick? This blog post explores vocabulary generalization and provides ideas for helping students use their vocabulary words in other settings. Click through to learn more about how SLPs can teach vocabulary in speech therapy.

How to Teach Vocabulary: Working Towards Generalization

Looking for tools to help you with evidence-based vocabulary intervention? This post shares our top 9 vocabulary apps to help SLPs deliver strong vocabulary instruction! Check out this post to get ideas for vocabulary apps to use and why speech therapy is more effective with their use.

How to Teach Vocabulary: Apps

How to Teach Vocabulary: Journals

Selecting vocabulary targets can be a real challenge because there's no one-size-fits-all approach to vocabulary instruction. This post explores different ways for SLPs to select the right vocabulary targets in speech therapy, so click through to see what the research says about this topic.

How to Teach Vocabulary: Selecting Targets

There are a lot of strategies for SLPs to attempt when it comes to teaching vocabulary to students. This blog post explores the do's and don'ts of how to teach vocabulary with a few simple steps for evidence-based vocabulary practice in the speech room. Click through to read the entire post and get all the tips!

How to Teach Vocabulary: Do’s and Don’ts

How to Teach Vocabulary: A Framework

Need an online tool to help you manage your to-do list that you can access from anywhere? Asana is a fantastic tool for SLPs for this very reason! Check out how I use Asana to help me manage my caseload and my speech therapy in general. It's now my go-to task management tool, so read this post to learn how you can use it in speech and language therapy!

How to Conquer Your Task List Using Asana

Do you love Medicaid billing as much as this SLP does? If your answer is, “I don’t love it at all!”--you are in good company! Check out this solution designed just for SLPs! It might just change your mind about Medicaid billing!

How to Conquer Medicaid Billing

Make generalization easier for your speech students, their parents, and their teachers with these four tips! We work hard to help our students master their speech and language skills and reach their goals, but sometimes that hard work isn't generalized outside the speech room. This blog post gives you ideas for making that generalization easier and more likely to happen, so click through to read it!

Working Towards Generalization with Literacy-Based Therapy

Planning for mixed groups in speech therapy can be a bit of a struggle at times. I'm sharing my top five rules for implementing literacy-based therapy for mixed groups, which helps make planning and implementing it so much easier! Click through to read this post about utilizing literacy-based therapy in your speech room.

5 Rules for Successful Literacy-Based Therapy for Mixed Groups

Eliminate boredom and frustration from your older students in speech therapy by trying out these four ideas for making speech more engaging! We all know it can be a struggle sometimes to get older students interested in our speech and language therapy sessions, but with these ideas, they won't even realize they're learning and practicing speech skills! Click through to read the full post.

4 Ideas to Engage Older Students Using Literacy-Based Therapy

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