SLP Coffee Talk

Many of your SLP students will struggle with auditory challenges and hearing loss that impact their ability to communicate. 

For these students, you will need to make accommodations in your therapy sessions for those challenges to help them make progress. 

Luckily my guest in this episode, Fara Augustover, has a specialty in auditory oral therapy for individuals with hearing loss, auditory processing disorder, and other listening challenges.

Fara is a Licensed Speech-Language Pathologist and the founder of Island Wide Speech. In this week’s episode she shares tips for working with students with hearing loss and how to help determine if your student is struggling with an articulation concern or a hearing challenge. 

I hope that after hearing my conversation with Fara you feel ready to dive in with your students with hearing challenges. Plus, who else is going to RUN to the store to get an acoustic hoop? Let us know how it works out in your therapy sessions. 

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There’s SO MUCH curriculum for students to master in class, and it is imperative that speech sessions continue that learning when possible.  When I was introduced to the work of Cathy Alexander, I was blown away by her knowledge of grade-level curriculum, and I’m sure you will be too. 

Cathy Alexander has been a speech pathologist for over 25 years working in public schools and private pediatric clinics. She is an international speaker on the subject of vocabulary and the author of Core Curriculum Articulation - S, R, L, and the WH Question Blast Off Board Game. 

Grab a notebook and pen for this episode and let Cathy teach you how she incorporates the curriculum vocabulary - particularly verbs- into her speech sessions. 

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In a time when we are all doing fewer in-person therapy sessions and more virtual visits online, it can be difficult to find fun ways to work with our students. One great resource that I have enjoyed are FREE virtual field trips. 

In this quick episode of SLP Coffee Talk, I’m excited to be your guide through the world of virtual field trips. I share with you some of my personal favorites and how I use them to encourage language learning with my students. 

After giving this episode a listen, you will have a list of fun virtual field trips to use - especially in your virtual sessions with students. 

Don’t forget to reach out to me on Instagram @speechtimefun and let me know which virtual field trip you are going to check out first! 

Do you have any other fun ones to share with me? 

Full show notes available at www.speechtimefun.com/25

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Do you feel like your therapy sessions need a little more fun? Do you struggle to find ways to interact with your students with more complex communication concerns? If so, you may want to consider how to incorporate the use of Augmentative and Alternative Communication in your therapy sessions. 

In today’s episode, I chat with Rachel Madel - a Los Angeles-based speech-language pathologist who is dedicated to coaching parents and professionals on how to incorporate technology to best support speech and language development. Rachel presents on the use of AAC with children with complex communication needs. 

After listening to this episode, I hope you will have a wealth of additional tools and ideas for incorporating AAC into your therapy sessions. This is sure to be an episode you will save to your favorites and come back to again and again. 

Full show notes available at www.speechtimefun.com/24

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Often, we think that we always need to be adapting our therapy sessions to use the latest and most innovative techniques. However, there is definitely a place for tried-and-true approaches that have been working well for many years. One of those approaches is the Cycles approach. 

If you aren’t familiar with this approach, then you will love my conversation today with Dr. Dawn Moore. 

Dawn is the founder of Expression Speech, Language, and Myofunctional Center in Burlington, North Carolina. Dr. Moore has over 20 years of experience in the field and earned her clinical doctorate in 2018. For phonology, she uses and teaches others how to use Barbara Hodson’s Cycles for Phonology due to the success she continues to have with the program.

She is here to chat with us about why she sees such great success with the Cycles approach with virtually every type of student she has worked with and how you can incorporate it into your therapy sessions. 

After listening to my conversation with Dr. Moore, I hope you recognize the value of incorporating cycles into your clinical sessions. Be sure to come back and share with me whether you add it to your strategy and how it works for your students. 

Full show notes available at www.speechtimefun.com/23

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Do you wonder how you can simplify your speech therapy sessions and minimize the tools and materials you need to have? 

Our guest in this episode, Ashley Rossi, is here to show us how she keeps things simple by using books as her main therapy material. Ashley is the creator of the blog Sweet Southern Speech where she shares ideas for literacy-based therapy along with so many other great resources. 

She will explain why it is so beneficial for students to use reading and stories to help develop their language skills. 

After listening to this episode, you will come away with a list of book recommendations to use in your therapy sessions as well as ideas for building your classroom book collection on a budget. 

Full show notes available at www.speechtimefun.com/22

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When your students are exposed to new language and come across a word they don't know, that's when you need to employ strategies. You've tried context clues, synonyms, and antonyms. Picking random words to drill won't help either. What other strategies can you teach them? What else can you do?

In this episode, let's focus on prefixes, suffixes, and root words. Learn how these parts of speech can do so much to augment their reading comprehension. You will see that knowledge carry-over and help build their confidence as they tackle more and more challenging words.

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Do you struggle to create lessons for your students with more challenging behaviors? It can be hard to follow a typical plan when the needs of each student are unique. What works for one might not work for the other. 

In this episode, I’m excited to chat with Sasha Long of The Autism Helper to learn why we should embrace a level of uncertainty in our instruction.

Sasha is a sport certified behavior analyst and former special education teacher. She travels internationally as a speaker and consultant providing individualized training and feedback to parents, educators, therapists, and administrators in the world of autism. 

After listening to this episode,  I hope you will feel more confident in tailoring your plans to each student and working as a team with the paraprofessionals and special education teachers to achieve success. 

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If you are an SLP, then you know ALLLLL about the letter R. It is typically one of the last sounds to be mastered by children, and it is a common reason that students are referred for sessions with an SLP. 

So, if you feel like you know everything there is to know about teaching this letter sound, then this is the episode for you. My guest, Lindsey Hockel, is a licensed SLP practicing in a private pediatric clinic. She is also the creator of SpeechyThings - a resource site for SLPs with an entire section devoted to the letter R sound. 

In this fun episode, Lindsey and I chat about new ways to work with students on the R sound that you are sure to enjoy. 

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As an SLP working in a public school, we often see students who are struggling with language processing disorders. It’s common to feel like you need to jump into an intervention plan and work to fix every skill that the student is struggling with. However, this may not be the best course of action for helping the student. 

In this episode, I am chatting with Dr. Karen Dudek-Brannan who helps pediatric SLPs transform their language therapy systems so they can help their clients make meaningful, consistent progress and live better lives. She does this through her online training programs and therapy materials. 

In her research, she has found that it’s important to step back and look at the big picture with your student before moving ahead with an education plan. 

In this Episode You’ll Discover:

• How to create a learning system for kids with processing issues
• Where to start when evaluating a new student 
• The 5 areas that feed into vocabulary
• Why language growth is more than just a scripted curriculum
• How SLPs are different than teachers

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