Guest Bio

Charlie Hoffmeister is a Speech Language Pathologist, Board Certified Telepractice Specialist and Myofunctional therapist who has been working with students as a virtual school based SLP since 2017. She is the owner of Juniper Speech and also works online with E-Therapy. 

Episode Summary

In this episode you’ll learn about what speech therapy entails and how important it is for teachers to collaborate with speech pathologists so that their students can truly generalize their speech and language skills. Charlie shares the benefits of online speech therapy and has excellent ideas about giving kids the tools to really engage with a growth mindset. 

Timestamps

Work from home - mom from home life 2:13

Benefits of online speech therapy 4:00

The importance of generalizing what’s learned in speech therapy 6:26

Parents’ involvement in online speech therapy 8:06

Developing cognitive clarity with students 9:59

Encouraging students to take charge of their learning 12:10

Do you name your executive function strategies? 13:55

The importance of tools and strategies to make growth mindset function for kids 14:54

Normalizing mistakes 16:07

What makes a speech pathologist awesome? 18:03

Speech pathologists do more than speech sounds 20:18

Why Charlie doesn’t want to work in a vacuum 21:15

Charlie’s tips for the rest of us working with kids with speech needs 22:16 

Everything has communication in it! 24:14

Episode Resources

E-Therapy Free Online Resources

Juniper Speech

Contact Charlie Hoffmeister

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