No-Prep Group Speech/Language Therapy Ideas When you're a speech-language pathologist with a caseload of 70 or more kids, group therapy is a necessary evil. Sometimes it feels like group speech/language therapy only happens because we don't have enough time to see each child individually. But there are actually a lot of really great

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How to NOT Take Data during Speech/Language Therapy Data or it didn't happen, right?? As speech-language professionals, it is crucial that we collect data to know exactly how our clients are doing. Or is it? Today we're going to explore the questions of how much data do you ACTUALLY need to collect and how

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No-Prep December Challenge! I Challenge you to do Less Do you think you could go a full month without prepping any activities for therapy? Would you like to try? December is a notoriously busy month and usually our clients and students are all zany with that "pre-holiday" energy. So how about this year, you

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Set up a Folder System for Effortless Speech Therapy Sessions Your students come into your therapy space and they know what to do. They grab their speech folders from the bin by the door. They walk to the table and sit down. They open their folders and get out their practice page. And they start

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The Way of the Unstressed Speechie: Speech Therapy without Tears If you’re a speech-language pathologist, SLPA, SALT or some other alphabet soup doing speech therapy with kids... And you’re stressed out... And overwhelmed... You are not alone!   There are so many kids right now that need support and not enough of us to go

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Why Use AAC for Toddlers or Children? AAC devices are augmentative/alternative communication systems that allow a person to communicate with those around them without speaking.  There are many different types of AAC but the most common are high-tech AAC Devices that allow a person to push a button to speak a message.  These

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In this episode of the Speech and Language Kids Podcast, speech-language pathologist Carrie Clark discusses the benefits of groups speech therapy for children and why speech therapists group children together.  Carrie also discusses the types of cases that benefit from individual therapy. Click Here to Download Your Free Group Therapy Resource Pack

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In this episode of The Speech and Language Kids Podcast, speech-language pathologist Carrie Clark discusses what speech therapists can do to help with literacy (reading and writing) skills in children and adolescents. What is Literacy? Pre-reading skills like phonological awareness and basic language skills Reading skills Writing skills Why do Children with

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Hypernasality Speech Therapy: Treatment Ideas for Hypernasal Speech Hypernasality occurs when a child speaks with too much nasal resonance. Airflow tends to be directed up into the nasal cavity during speech instead of primarily through the oral cavity. Nasal emission is when that air comes all the way out through the nose. This

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Speech Therapy for Stuttering: Exercises to Help a Stuttering Child How can we help children and teens who stutter? There are many speech therapy techniques and exercises that we can use to help individuals speak more fluently. On this page, we'll show you how to do speech therapy for stuttering at the different

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