How Parents & SLPs Can Align To Exponentially Increase The Results Of Speech Therapy...

When parents start bringing their child to speech therapy, they often wonder if 30-minutes per week is really going to help their child. The truth? Therapy is most effective when parents are fully involved in therapy at home! So how can parents & therapists align to make sure children receive optimal therapy during the other 23.5 hours of the day?

This free episode of Making the Shift will explain the importance of parent involvement and help both therapists and parents align to make speech exponentially more effective for our beloved children, helping them get results faster from speech. Helping our tiny communicators to express themselves can take a ton of effort. But parent involvement is the key to ensuring they get the maximum value out of therapy... This episode is going to be all about:

✔ Why it’s so important that parents get involved in a child’s speech therapy…

✔ Illuminating the path to parent and SLP alignment…

✔ Defining the highly effective role that empowered parents can play in their child’s therapy…

✔ Examples of what kinds of support parents can offer to reinforce therapy at home…

✔ How to open up this conversation with your speech therapist (if you’re a parent)...

✔ How to open up this conversation with your client’s parents (if you’re a therapist)...

How To Identify The 4 Sensory Patterns That Massively Improve Regulation And Engagement

Fulfill your clients’ sensory needs by understanding which one of the 4 sensory patterns they exhibit. This eye-opening episode can change EVERYTHING in your sessions.

Based on the world-renowned research of Dr. Winnie Dunn and the ASHA article we co-authored... This week’s free live show is all about:

✔ Understanding the 4 different sensory patterns that ALL your clients fall into (actually, that all humans fall into! But more on that in the episode...)

✔ How these sensory patterns cause clients to react or not react to sensory inputs (prepare to see your clients behavior in an entirely new light!)

✔ How you can classify clients so you can better fulfill their sensory needs (I'll be giving some real life examples to make this crystal clear...)

✔ Giving you some concrete and practical strategies to use with each type of client (these WILL help improve regulation and engagement in your clients starting TOMORROW!)

Targeting behaviors isn't effective! We need to target the root cause instead...

In this week’s episode, you'll find out:

✔ Some of the most common errors in thinking that prevent us from successfully aiding our kids in behavior modifications.

✔ Why behavior goals don't work for children (and what you can do about it)...

✔ How to differentiate between "surface level" behavior goals and deeper, more targeted goals that have a real impact...

✔ Some easy thinking strategies you can implement to start creating better goals for clients/students...

✔ And more!

Want to help your autistic kids climb out of "rote language land" and up to the top of "novel and creative communication peak"? Then come join us for the next episode of Making the Shift where we'll explore the exact steps you can take to elevate your kids' ability to use higher level language — starting in your very next session! You can finally help your autistic kids reach higher level language by helping them climb these simple steps! In this week’s live, you'll find out:

✔ Why helping a child develop memorized "rote" language isn't enough (and why it's important to strive for more)...

✔ The commonly overlooked but extremely important prerequisites to basic and higher level communication (without knowing these, it can be impossible to help kids develop higher level language)...

✔ About the "holes" in autistic children's communication ability (and how you can begin to help fill them)...

✔ The role of intrinsic motivation in enabling novel and creative communication (and strategies for building internal motivation in your kids)...

✔ PLUS, concrete and practical strategies for improving regulation, engagement and higher level language development in sessions (so you can start seeing transformed sessions as early as tomorrow)...

Rewards-based systems are ineffective and can actually harm your relationships with clients. Get the research that unlocks the doors to building intrinsic motivation — the right way.

In this week’s live, you're going to hear about:

✔ The most fascinating (yet completely ignored) research on how rewards actually decrease a child's motivation

✔ Why using reward systems damages your relationships with your clients

✔ What you should be focusing on instead

Today Autistic Coach Chloe Estelle is here in the room with us, and she’s getting ready to give you some brand NEW perspective from an Autistic adult’s point of view. She’ll be sharing one of the MOST important things you can do to help with the emotional wellbeing of your autistic kids! This is so rarely spoken of, but it’s crucial for us to recognize… so pile inside, refresh your perspective, and show her your love and support! Find Chloe on IG @chloeestellinyellow & learn more about the organization she co-founded,  OurTism, and how they support Autistic individuals & their families at ourtism.com.

Join us for this SPECIAL GUEST episode of Making the Shift featuring Autistic SLP Jamie Boyle. Jamie has flown all the way from the East coast where she lives and is joining us live, in-person for this special guest episode. And we’re so excited to have her! She’ll be filling us in on what it’s like to experience the world through her eyes, how she advocates for herself in different circumstances, and the importance of encouraging other autistics to self-advocate when they need to. If you have autistic people in your life, you've got to catch this episode!

Ever start a session thinking, “Alright, we’re going to make progress today!” only to end up asking yourself, “Why does this [negative result] keep happening?” Then jump in with me and Chris as we talk about some ways you can guide your approach with intentional questions that result in better outcomes and boosted morale for you and families. In this week’s live, we’re going to dive into: ✔ The flawed perception we therapists commonly have regarding outcomes in our sessions. ✔ How OUR own thinking patterns can get in the way of progress during sessions. ✔ Some creative ways to change the internal questions we ask ourselves so we can better support our kids. ✔ Grounded examples of “what to ask” and “what not to ask” in your own sessions with families.

How To Increase Regulation & Learning By Being Proactive Instead Of Reactive To Sensory Needs. You know what it’s like to feel out of control, unable to help a child return to a regulated state once they’re already dysregulated. But what if you could “read the signs” that exist BEFORE a child ever gets to that point by understanding their sensory needs and proactively making adjustments for them? That’s what we’re talking about in this week’s show! 

Discover The Single Most Important Thing You Can Do To Educate Teams With An ND Affirming Approach... It’s easy to feel defeated when you’re trying to change the world for your autistic kids & clients without ever feeling like you’re doing enough. You might feel like there’s too much resistance to change, like you don’t have enough time, or like your voice doesn’t matter. But there’s something you can do that will empower you to have the MOST impact. And we’re going to share it in this show!