SLP Coffee Talk

What are your favorite winter activities? 

We are in the heart of wintertime now, so why not talk about some fun winter themed speech therapy activities that you can do with your students? 

The ideas I’m sharing on today’s episode of SLP Coffee Talk can be used with any age level. These themed activities are created with as many groups as possible in mind so that you can make your planning and prepping super easy. All you’ll need is one book, game, or resource to use with as many groups as needed. 

I know it can be a challenge to stay motivated during these long and cold winter months, so these low-prep therapy ideas are my go-to activities when I need to get my students motivated and excited to work towards those speech goals. 

You’ll learn about my favorite melting snowman game, ways to incorporate winter books into your lessons, storytelling games, describing games, and more. 

I love these activities because they can be used again and again to work on different speech goals. Make sure to tune in to hear about these winter activities and how you can adapt them to whatever skills you are working on with your students. 

Resources Mentioned: 

Check out my blog to see these ideas in action: Low Prep Speech Therapy Ideas for Winter

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Have you heard of embedded speech in the classroom? 

Embedded speech is basically when a speech therapist is in the classroom working with the teacher, or special education teacher, to reach student goals together. It’s a slightly more unique approach, but the collaboration is highly beneficial to our speech students. 

By using this model, you can work together to help your students reach those goals and standards that may have felt unattainable before. 

Wondering how it works? This episode of SLP Coffee Talk is for you! Pamela Petralia joined me to talk about what this is and how you can implement it in the classroom in a way that feels collaborative and beneficial for you, the teacher, and your students. 

Pam has been a special education teacher for over 20 years and has worked in a variety of settings (self-contained, resource, k-2, middle school, etc.) She is the owner and creator behind Mrs. P's Specialties. 

Pam is passionate about helping teachers find ways to engage students in meaningful activities that are tailored to their needs and levels without sacrificing their personal & family time.  

Tune in to hear Pam share the top benefits of using this model and how to implement it in your classroom. 

Full show notes available at www.speechtimefun.com/104

Resources Mentioned: 

Visit Pam’s website

Check out Mrs. P’s Specialties on Teachers Pay Teachers

Follow Pam on Instagram

Connect with Pam on Facebook

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Are your students prepared to join the workforce when they leave speech? As SLP’s, we are always thinking of tools and strategies that students can use when they are in the real world outside of the speech classroom. 

One of the most important things we can do is help prepare students with the skills they need to find jobs and learn to be independent. This means teaching them how to communicate with others, teaching them simple tasks that will help them get hired, and taking them out in the world so that they can get practice interacting with others independently. 

In today’s episode of SLP Coffee Talk, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Maureen Howard from Spoonful of SPED to talk about how we can work together with special education teachers to give our students the technical and communication skills they need when they graduate out of speech therapy in school. 

Maureen is a High School special education department chair dedicated to supporting teachers, families, and students to be successful in high school and beyond!

She has so much experience with high school students and she is sharing her best tips for working on these skills with our older students in a way that is relevant and interesting to them. 

Make sure to tune in to hear all about it! 

Resources Mentioned: 

Check out Spoonful of SPED

Follow Maureen on Instagram

Visit Spoonful of SPED on Teachers Pay Teachers

Check out my Life Skills Bundle

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Do you work on character traits during your speech therapy sessions? 

You may be wondering why this is important in speech since students are already working on this in the classroom. 

We want the things we are working on in speech to align with what students do in the classroom so that they can keep up with what is expected of them. It isn’t always as easy for our students as it is for other students and that’s where we come in. 

In this episode of SLP Coffee Talk, I am sharing my tips and strategies for helping students understand character traits in my speech therapy sessions. Character trait practice doesn’t have to be hard or complicated, it can be as simple as helping students describe their favorite characters. 

Tune in for fun and practical tips, strategies, and games that you can use in your therapy session with your students to help build their confidence back in the classroom. 

Resources Mentioned: 

Check out my character traits resource on TpT

Read more about character traits on my blog

Full show notes available at www.speechtimefun.com/102

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When most people think of the phrase “compare and contrast,” they think of using it to teach students to recognize the difference in colors and shapes. 

As students age into upper grades, comparing and contrasting becomes even more important as they generalize the concept and make connections between what they are learning about in school and their own life. 

In this episode of SLP Coffee Talk, we are talking all about teaching comparing and contrasting in speech therapy. 

For students to be able to successfully compare and contrast, they need to be able to comprehend what they read, understand the vocabulary, know how to express it, and know how to put it all together. All of these things fall into our domains as SLPs. 

How can you help your students master this skill? Tune in to hear my favorite teaching methods, tools, and strategies to help my students understand how to compare and contrast with pictures or video, between a story and background knowledge, and between two different articles.

Resources Mentioned: 

Check out my must-have visual aids for working on critical thinking 

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It’s the 100th episode of SLP Coffee Talk!

I can’t believe it, but we have officially made it! I never thought when I started this podcast that I would make it this far. You all have shown up every week to hear what I have to say, and I am so grateful for that. 

I truly love hearing how this podcast has inspired you and how you all use these tips in your therapy practice. That is what gives me the motivation to show up every Monday to provide these tips, tricks, and jolts of inspiration for you!

Tune in to hear me reflect back on how far this podcast has come, read some reviews from some of my amazing listeners, and hear how you can enter to win a $50 Teachers Pay Teachers gift card so you can get those teaching resources you have had your eye on!

I truly appreciate you all and I am so honored you continue to tune in every week! Here’s to the next 100! 

Full show notes available at www.speechtimefun.com/100

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How do we decide what vocabulary words to work on in speech therapy? 

This is probably the number one question I see asked in SLP Facebook groups, so I wanted to take some time to explain why I don’t rely on vocabulary lists, grade level lists, or classroom curriculum, and explain what I use instead. 

The truth is that vocabulary lists and grade level lists aren’t perfect. They don’t account for where each individual student might be in the vocabulary learning process. 

Instead, we need to focus on teaching our students how to determine the meaning of words they come across on their own, without relying on basic vocabulary memorization. 

Make sure to tune in to hear my strategy for helping students grasp those tier 2 vocabulary words and why you should consider using them in your speech therapy practice too. 

Resources Mentioned: 

Check out my free context clues scoot games resource

Learn my tips and tricks for teaching context clues

Check out my tips and tricks for working on tier 2 vocabulary words

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Are you using wordless picture books in your speech therapy sessions? 

If you have been following me for a while, you probably already know that I absolutely love wordless resources. Wordless videos and picture books make learning so much fun! 

If you are new to this idea and wondering why you should use wordless picture books, you don’t want to miss this episode of SLP Coffee Talk. I sat down with Hanna Stroud to dive deeper into the topic of wordless picture books and explain how they can take your therapy sessions to the next level. 

Hanna Stroud has operated a tutoring and consulting company, called My Literacy Space, since 2008 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Previously Hanna worked for the Calgary Board of Educations supporting the Resource Team with literacy instruction for children K-6. Providing one-on-one tutoring sessions with a focus on language and literacy skills, Hanna is passionate about structured literacy, children’s picture books, and multisensory learning activities. 

For over a decade, Hanna has been a National Trainer for Reading With TLC and provided training for their Lively Letters method of teaching children to read. Hanna also provides webinars and in-person workshops for parents, educators, and organizations every month. Some of the important topics covered are the benefits of wordless picture books to build language and literacy skills, the importance of a structured literacy approach, comprehension skills, and other engaging topics. 

Tune in to hear the benefits of wordless picture books, the best books to get started, and how to start incorporating them in your speech therapy sessions! 

Resources Mentioned: 

Follow Hanna on Instagram

Visit Hanna’s website

Get Hanna’s free guide to learn more about wordless picture books

Check out the Wordless Picture Book Webinar

Check out My Literacy Space on TpT

Check out my wordless picture books blog post

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You come here every week to hear my interviews with the experts and my best tips about how to become the best SLP you can be, but have you ever wondered who I really am? 

If you have ever wanted to learn more about me, you’re in for a treat. 

In today’s episode of SLP Coffee Talk, I have a special guest- my daughter! Ella is 7 years old and she is joining me on the podcast to interview me in honor of my birthday this week. 

I have always had a passion for teaching and working with children. In fact, when I was a young girl, I used to “teach” my dolls how to read and write! This eventually led me to my decision to work with children as a speech pathologist.

Tune in to this lighthearted and fun episode to hear what my daughter thinks of my profession as well as learn a little more about me. 

You’ll also hear how to enter my giveaway for a Teachers Pay Teachers gift card, so don’t miss it!

Full show notes available at www.speechtimefun.com/97

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Executive functioning is an important part of life for our students, but unfortunately, some of them really struggle with it. 

Understanding what executive functioning really is and how to target it in speech therapy is a crucial step to helping them improve their impulse control and start achieving their goals.

In today’s episode of SLP Coffee Talk, I sat down with Tera Sumpter to learn all about executive functioning and how we can work together with other team members to help our students improve. 

Tera Sumpter, M.A., CCC-SLP is the founder and Speech-Language Pathologist at Seeds of Learning, LLC where she specializes in executive functioning, literacy development, and other learning disabilities.  

She is the developer of an integrated cognitive processing model for assessment and treatment.  Tera is invited to present nationwide and internationally on her integrative learning model and executive functioning. Tera is the author of The Seeds of Learning:  A Cognitive Processing Model for Speech, Language, Literacy & Executive Functioning.

Students with executive functioning difficulties are often considered to have behavior issues or are mislabeled as lazy in the classroom, but the truth is much deeper than that. Listen in as Tera shares how we can develop plans based on our students’ behavior and improve their executive functioning in the classroom and out. 

Resources Mentioned: 

Follow Tera on Instagram

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Check out The Seeds of Learning: A Cognitive Processing Model for Speech, Language, Literacy, and Executive Functioning

Check out the Seeds of Learning Mighty Network

Let’s Prioritize Those Plans Boom Cards

Full show notes available at www.speechtimefun.com/96

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