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In this week's podcast, we're sharing practical strategies to provide support to high school life skills students. Our guest expert, Rosemarie Griffin, has a unique skillset because she's an ASHA-Certified Speech-Language Pathologist and a Board Certified Behavior Analyst. She brings her treasure chest of tips for working with high school students and targeting goals related to social, leisure, vocational, and communication skills. It's not an episode to be missed!! →

#013: Tips for Success with High School Life Skills

In this week's podcourse, Marisha reviews the (sometimes inconclusive...) evidence related to the assessment and treatment of context clues, as well as prefixes and suffixes. Participants will be given practical demonstrations and tips for assessment and treatment of these targets throughout the course.

#012: How to Target Affixes in Speech Therapy

SLP Summit Recap: 5 Evidence-Based Strategies for Effective Vocabulary Intervention

In this week's podcast episode, Marisha reviews the evidence related to the assessment and treatment of multiple meaning words, with the goal of supporting students' vocabulary acquisition and literacy skills. Participants will be given practical demonstrations and tips for application throughout the course that they can implement with their caseloads, to help their students achieve meaningful and effective therapeutic outcomes.

#011: How to Target Multiple Meaning Words in Speech Therapy

In this podcourse, Marisha reviews the evidence related to the assessment and treatment of categories. She covers a variety of strategies that SLPs can use when assessing and treating categories goals. Participants will be given practical demonstrations and tips for application throughout the course.

#010: How to Target Categories in Speech Therapy

In this podcourse, Marisha reviews the research related to the assessment and treatment of basic concepts. Participants will be given an evidence-based framework for practice, and practical demonstrations and tips for application throughout the course. From informal play-based assessments to incorporating movement to keep students engaged, this is an episode you don't want to miss!

#009: How to Target Basic Concepts in Speech Therapy

We're continuing our series about Articulation Therapy over on the blog by diving into a case study that highlights the Complexity Approach. You'll be introduced to Sophie, a five-year-old preschooler who scored in the 1st percentile (Standard Score = 63) on the Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation (GFTA-3). We introduce the speech sound difficulties she struggled with, along with the targets we identified, goals we set, and activities to help her achieve them using the complexity approach. Check it out!

The Complexity Approach for Articulation Therapy: A Case Study

We've been diving into a review of Articulation Approaches on the SLP Now blog, and this post is all about the Cycles Approach. Some studies have found that the Cycles Approach results in improved consonant production in conversational contexts, and that children with less severe phonological and language impairments improve in both domains when the Cycles Approach is used. Click through to learn about Jayden, a four-year-old preschooler whose speech difficulties were creating frustrations for him, and how the Cycles Approach improved his intelligibility.

The Cycles Approach for Articulation Therapy: A Case Study

This week on the blog we are introducing you to Casey, a fifth grader who struggled to produce her

The Developmental Approach to Articulation Therapy: A Case Study

After I finished grad school and started working as a school-based SLP, I found myself with

Articulation 101: A Review of the Approaches

It can often be a challenge for parents of children who stutter to find resources to help them understand stuttering and how to help their children with their fluency. This blog post shares five stuttering resources for parents that have tons of helpful information and insight. Perfect for SLPs to share with parents of kids who stutter! Click through to read this post now.

Stuttering 101: 5 Resources for SLPs to Share with Parents

Want to learn more about teaching fluency strategies to students who stutter? Read this blog post! It goes into detail about teaching fluency strategies in speech therapy to help students overcome their stuttering barriers. There’s even a short demo video included that models a specific fluency strategy called The Cancellation Technique! Click through to read it now.

Stuttering 101: Teaching Fluency Strategies in Speech Therapy

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