SLP Coffee Talk

Let’s talk about activities you can do while reading in speech therapy! 

 

This episode of SLP Coffee Talk is part two of my three-part series on literacy-based therapy activities. In the last episode, we talked about different activities you can do before starting a book or text in your speech therapy classroom.  In this episode, we are diving into what to do while they are reading.

 

There are so many benefits to doing during-reading activities in speech. It allows students to monitor their own comprehension and understanding of the text, and it also allows us to monitor their understanding as well and see what areas they need a little extra help with. 

 

Make sure to tune in to hear more about during-reading activities and ways to use them in your speech therapy classroom. If you haven’t already, check out the last episode to learn about before-reading activities, and don’t miss next week's episode on after-reading activities! 

Full show notes available at www.speechtimefun.com/115

 

Resources Mentioned: 

Before Reading activities episode: www.speechtimefun.com/114

Check out SLP Elevate: www.speechtimefunpd.com/slp-elevate-aug

 

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If you know me, you know that I love incorporating books and literacy-based activities into my speech therapy sessions! 

 

It allows me to plan easily, quickly, and effectively. I can use one resource with as many groups as possible or even with mixed groups with many different goals. It also allows me to correlate what we do in speech therapy with what they are doing in their classrooms. This means I can mimic their classroom lessons and teach them how to use the strategies that we worked on in the speech room to improve their outcomes. 

 

In this episode of SLP Coffee Talk, I am talking all about before-reading activities. Why before reading? In order to incorporate reading lessons they may be doing in the classroom, we need to focus on before, during, and after reading activities. 

 

This means you are doing a whole lesson before even starting a book or article! Doing this gives your students a better chance to grasp the text and understand the lessons. 

 

Make sure to tune in to this episode to learn a ton of different before reading ideas, strategies, activities, and tools you can use in your speech therapy sessions. 

 

This episode is the first part in a three-part series where I will be sharing activities you can do for each part of the process, so make sure to tune in next week to learn more about during reading activities! 

Full show notes available at www.speechtimefun.com/114

 

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Do you have students that love music? 

 

In this episode of SLP Coffee Talk, I am sharing one of my favorite tools to use in speech therapy, and it’s something that you might not have thought of before: song lyrics! 

 

I use them all the time during my speech therapy sessions because it’s super fun and motivating, and it allows me to work on a ton of speech therapy goals. 

 

I know that it can be a huge struggle to get our older students motivated in speech. They may be embarrassed to be there or frustrated or even a little annoyed. Many of them are aware of their difficulties and don’t want to be reminded of them all the time. It is so important that we try to be as mindful of that as possible and keep their interests in mind to make speech more enjoyable. 

 

Many older students are really into music and TikTok dances, so using song lyrics is a great way to get them engaged! It’s so easy to just look up the lyrics, put them on your screen, and utilize them for speech activities. 

 

So what sort of goals can you work on with song lyrics? There are so many! You can target articulation, vocabulary, imprinting, social skills, and so much more. The sky is the limit. 

 

Tune in to hear why I love using song lyrics so much, how I use them in my classroom, the activities I use to target different goals, and how you can start using song lyrics in your speech sessions today. 

 

Full show notes available at www.speechtimefun.com/113

 

Resources Mentioned: 

Check out SLP Elevate: https://www.speechtimefunpd.com/slp-elevate-aug

 

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Subscribe today and get access to my secret podcast filled with my juicy secrets for planning with ease for secondary speech students. 6 quick episodes that you can quickly listen to and feel refreshed and inspired! https://speechtimefun.com/secondarysecrets

Have you ever felt lost or powerless in your career? 

 

Unfortunately, many new SLPs end up getting discouraged and lose their inspiration after they begin their career. It’s easy to feel this way when you don’t feel supported, valued, or paid adequately. 

 

So what do you do to get out of this funk? In today’s episode of SLP Coffee Talk, I sat down with Mattie Murrey-Tegels to talk about how you can take your power back, grab the reigns in your life, and find happiness and fulfillment in your career as an SLP. 

 

Mattie Murrey-Tegels is the founder and SLP behind Fresh SLP, Badass SLP, and The Missing Link for SLPs Podcast.  She’s been “in-the-trenches” as a medical SLP around the world for over 25 years and now an Assistant Professor for 3 years.  

 

If you are unhappy, there are things you can do to find support, community, and fulfillment. Mattie has so much valuable information to share about finding the things that light you up and going after them. 

 

You don’t have to stay stuck. Tune in if you need help with this!

Resources Mentioned: 

Check out Fresh SLP

Free Vision Board Guide

Join the Fresh SLP Community

Connect with Mattie on LinkedIn

Follow Mattie on Instagram

Follow Mattie on Pinterest

Listen to the Fresh SLP Podcast

 

Full show notes available at www.speechtimefun.com/112

 

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A couple of weeks ago, I shared my favorite YouTube channels for using nonfiction during speech therapy sessions. Now, I am sharing my all-time favorite YouTube Channel—Simon’s Cat! 

 

If you aren’t familiar with this channel, it is full of videos that are no more than ten minutes long. They are all black and white and share the stories and adventures of a man and his cat. So why do I love it so much? Because all of the videos are wordless! 

 

If you know me, you know that I absolutely love using these types of resources in my speech therapy classroom. Whether it is wordless picture books or wordless videos, their benefits in a speech therapy setting are endless. 

 

You can use wordless resources for things like body language, facial expressions,  inferencing, predicting, and summarizing—just to name a few. The sky really is the limit! These videos are short, entertaining, and so easy to use in speech therapy. 

 

In this episode of SLP Coffee Talk, join me as I share why I love this YouTube channel so much, more benefits of using wordless resources in speech therapy, and tips and tricks for using these videos in your classroom. 

 

There is so much fun to be had with this YouTube channel, and I am so excited to tell you all about it. I know you’ll love these activity ideas and your students will too. 

 

Make sure to tune in so you can learn how you can start incorporating this fun resource in your speech sessions today! 

Resources Mentioned: 

Simon’s Cat on YouTube

Check out SLP Elevate

Join my Facebook Group

 

Full show notes available at www.speechtimefun.com/111

 

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Do you write strength-based goals for your autistic students? 

 

The neurodiversity movement is bringing a lot of awareness to the fact that all brains are different. It is increasing our ability to work with our autistic students in a way that makes sense for them and sparks their interest. 

 

In this episode of SLP Coffee Talk, Rachel Dorsey is joining me to talk more about how we can improve our goal setting for our autistic students and approach it in a way that caters to their natural talents while also teaching them new skills. 

 

Rachel Dorsey is a Speech-Language Pathologist, educator, consultant, and autism rights advocate. Through her consultancy, Rachel Dorsey: Autistic SLP, LLC, she provides education to parents, professionals, school districts, and organizations through coaching, consultations, in-services, professional developments, and courses on neurodiversity affirming therapeutic practice. 

 

The services she offers as a consultant draw upon her own experience as an Autistic person and her over five years of clinical experience seeing early intervention, preschool, school-age, post-secondary-aged clients through itinerant and clinic-based settings.

 

It is so important that we show our autistic students that though they think differently, they are perfectly complete the way they are. These tips for working with autistic students will help them develop a positive self-identity, build on their natural abilities, and so much more. 

 

Make sure to tune in to learn all about it! 

Resources Mentioned: 

Follow Rachel on Instagram

Visit Rachel’s website

Goal Writing for Autistic Students course

 

Full show notes available at www.speechtimefun.com/110

 

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Do you use videos in your speech therapy sessions?

 

A couple of weeks ago, I shared all about why I think you should be using nonfiction in your speech therapy sessions. 

 

I know it is easy to reach for those favorite fiction resources, but studies show that using nonfiction is extremely valuable to students! It builds their background knowledge and improves their comprehension skills as well as their ability to make connections. 

 

It doesn’t have to be a nonfiction text that you use, you can utilize other nonfiction resources too, like videos. Taking the reading aspect out of it makes it much more fun for struggling readers. It allows them to work on listening comprehension and build language skills, which will in turn improve their reading comprehension. 

 

But where do you find quality nonfiction resources? There is a lot of content out there to sort through and it is so important that we ensure the videos we share are appropriate for our needs. Don’t worry, I have you covered! My favorite place to find nonfiction videos is YouTube! 

 

In this episode of SLP Coffee Talk, I am sharing with you the best nonfiction YouTube channels that you can turn to when you need videos for your speech therapy sessions! 

 

Tune in to learn more about these YouTube channels and how I use them to target any goal in my speech therapy sessions. 

 

Resources Mentioned: 

Colossal Cranium on YouTube

Art For Kids Hub on YouTube

TedEd on YouTube

Highlights Kids on YouTube

Dad, how do I? on YouTube

Short Films Cheat Sheet

Full show notes available at www.speechtimefun.com/109

 

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Let’s talk about grad school! 

 

If you are preparing for grad school or currently applying for it, this episode of SLP Coffee Talk is for you!

 

Once you start grad school, you may think that your whole life should revolve around it and you won’t be able to do anything else, but that’s not the case! It will take up as much time as you give it, but you are not just a student, you’re a person too. 

 

In this episode, I sat down with Sam Walker to talk about all things grad school for future SLP’s and how to not only survive but thrive. 

 

Sam is an NYC-based speech pathologist and founder of Speaking of Samantics. She designs and makes everything with love, offering a broad range of products.

 

Speaking of Samantics products make for a perfect gift. Moreover, they bring the speech pathologist community closer together. Samantha is passionate about her job as a speech pathologist. Her goal is to inspire others around the world to do the same. With her brand, she helps spread the word about the important work of speech-language pathologists everywhere.

 

Grad school is the perfect time to really explore the field and find out what you like, what you don’t, and find your passion. 

 

Tune in to hear more about Sams tips for SLP grad school including letting go of perfectionism, picking a specialty, preparing for the Praxis exam, finding your clinical fellowship, and so much more! 

 

Resources Mentioned: 

Visit Sam’s website

Check out Sam’s SLP courses

Check out her shop

Visit her Etsy shop

Follow her on Instagram

 

Full show notes available at www.speechtimefun.com/108

 

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Are you using nonfiction texts in speech? 

 

I know as speech-language pathologists, we love our storybooks. It’s so easy to reach for a comforting story for any activity in the classroom. However, there is a ton of evidence to back up the idea that nonfiction texts are more beneficial to our speech therapy students than fiction texts are. 

 

One of the main reasons they are more beneficial is that they provide background knowledge. Our students may really struggle in this area. Using nonfiction texts will help you work towards those important speech therapy goals while also providing your students with the background knowledge they really need.  

 

This will in turn help them answer higher-level thinking questions in the classroom and help develop their reading skills and reading comprehension. 

 

In other words, you are setting them up for success as they read nonfiction more and more in their regular classrooms! 

 

In this episode of SLP Coffee Talk,  I am sharing more about why I love using nonfiction texts in speech therapy so much, the tools and resources I use in my therapy sessions, as well as some tips for what goals you can work on using nonfiction texts. 

 

Make sure to tune in to hear all of the juicy details so you can get started today! 

Resources Mentioned: 

Why We Should Use Nonfiction Texts blog post

Mystery Doug

NewsELA

Tween Tribune

Dogo News

Epic Books

Full show notes available at www.speechtimefun.com/107

 

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Do you ever struggle with imposter syndrome? 

 

Many SLPs, myself included, struggle with this feeling of not being good enough. That’s okay though! No one feels like they have it together all the time. It’s important that you self-reflect and remember those times when you knew you did an amazing job. This is the key to powering through those moments of doubt. 

 

Today’s guest on SLP Coffee Talk is Dani Newcombe, and she is such an inspiring SLP to talk to. She has had her fair share of imposter syndrome moments and self-doubt, but she is the master at finding the humor and moments of joy, no matter the circumstance.  

 

Dani Newcombe is a school and private practice SLP in Indiana. She graduated from Loma Linda University in 2018. She is currently on year 4 as an SLP. She owns her own practice, The Messy SLP, LLC,  and you can find her posting videos for comedic relief on Instagram.

 

It’s okay to not love what you do 100% of the time, and Dani isn’t afraid to talk about the hard parts along with the joyous parts. 

 

Tune in to hear more as we explore staying connected as SLP’s, perfectionism, dealing with feelings of overwhelm, and finding the humor in it all! 

Resources Mentioned: 

Follow Dani on Instagram

Check out Dani’s website

Full show notes available at www.speechtimefun.com/106

 

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