Speech Therapy: Storm of the Brains

By Carrie Clark, CCC-SLP, Speech-Language PathologistEducation Parenting Kids & Family

Speech Therapy: Storm of the Brains episodes

February 03, 2025Listen in on our Live Speech Therapy Planning Call
Listen in on our Live Speech Therapy Planning Call!
On today’s episode of the Speech and Language Kids Podcast, I’m taking you inside our members-only area!
Listen in as we run one of our monthly planning calls.
We’re helping members build sessions and plan a full month of therapy at once.
Join us as we combine the magic of our therapy plans with our session builder tools to create some AMAZING session ideas!
Listen to the Podcast Here
You can listen to the full podcast episode below:
How do the Speech and Language Kids Therapy Plans Work?
Forget one-off activities, our full treatment guides will walk you through therapy from start to finish.
The 5-Step Process:
Grab the therapy plan for the skill you need and put it in the child’s folder.
Work on the first phase by doing the first page of the therapy plan workbook.
Continue to practice by creating custom activities and materials with our session builder tools until they have mastered that phase.
Move to the next phase once they’ve mastered the first.
Repeat for all phases of the therapy plan.
What are the Session Builder Tools?
These our the AI-powered bots that we’ve built to make your job SO much easier!
Simply answer a few questions about what you’re looking for and our generators will create custom materials that are tailored to what your students need to work on and what they’re interested in.
Here are the tools we have right now:
Interactive Session Planner: Generate ideas for a therapy session based on the skills that everyone in the group needs to address
Word List Generator
Sentence/Prompt Generator
Reading Passage Generator
Image Generator
Conversational Prompt Generator
Social Scenario Generator
Social Story Text Generator
Goal-Wording Generator
Accommodations Idea Generator
How Can I Access the Plans and Tools?
All of these amazing resources (along with our planning calls) are located inside The Speech and Language Kids Hub!
Join today, free trials are available!
Access the Resources Inside The Hub (Free Trial Available)
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29 min
December 28, 2016Story Recall and Recalling Past Events | Speech Therapy Activities
Story Recall and Recalling Past Events | Speech Therapy Activities
Can you recall and retell a story you’ve heard?
Can you retell a past event in a way that makes sense?
Difficulty with these skills can cause problems for children and teens in academic work.
Plus, they can make it difficult for them to tell another person about something that has happened.
On this page, we’ll show you how to help a child with story recall and recalling past events. We’ll touch on how our Sequencing and Retelling Curriculum can provide a structured approach to teaching these skills to children and teens.
Sequencing and Retelling Curriculum
A Structured Program for Teaching Story Recall and Recalling Past Events
View the Sequencing CurriculumHow to do Speech Therapy for Story Recall and Recalling Past Events:
Children with communication challenges often have trouble retelling past events. This may make it hard for them to tell you about something that happened or communicate clearly about past events.
In order for a child to be able to retell past events, they first must be able to answer questions about past events. This helps us to know if they can remember the details and bring them to mind. Once we are sure the child can do that, then we need to teach them how to put the steps to common activities in order. This shows us that they know how to form and use sequences.
Once the child has mastered these two previous skills, they are ready to learn how to retell past events with the details in the correct order. Here are the resources for teaching this skill.
How to Teach a Child to Recall and Retell Stories and Past Events:
1. Remembering a Single Picture
Show them a picture and then put it away and say “What was in the picture?”
2. Answering Questions about a Book
Read a story and then ask specific questions about it immediately after like “Who was the main character?” and “What did he do at the ___?”.
3. Recalling Events from a Book
Read a story and then immediately after ask them “What happened in the story?”
Prompt them to tell you 3 events from the story and then put them in order.
For more information about helping a child learn to sequence, click here!
4. Answering Questions about an Immediately Past Event
Do something and then immediately ask the child questions about what you just did.
Once they can do that, move on to asking questions about something that happened right before starting to work on this.
5. Recalling Events from an Immediately Past Event
Do three things and then ask the child to retell the three things in order.
Ask the child to tell you what happened during the activity immediately before starting to work on this.
6. Answering Questions about Further Past Events
Ask the child questions about an event that happened a while ago, like their last meal or what they did after school last night.
Ask the child questions about events that happened further and further back, like their last birthday party or going to visit Grandma.
7. Recalling Events from a Further Past Event
Ask the child to retell three things that happened during an event that happened a while ago while keeping the steps in order.
Work on doing this for things that happened further and further back.
A Curriculum for Teaching Sequencing and Retelling:
The Sequencing and Retelling Curriculum by Speech and Language Kids is a structured program that speech-language pathologists, SLPAs, parents, and teachers can follow to help children learn story recall and recalling past events.
The Curriculum is based on evidence-based practices and breaks down therapy into phases that gradually build up success over time.
Everything needed for therapy is included: skill progressions, tracking tools, therapy materials, training videos, support, and AI-powered material generators that will instantly generate additional practice materials tailored to a child’s interests and skill level.
A subscription to the SLK Curriculum also includes the Curriculums in other areas as well, such as language, social, fluency, etc.
Sequencing and Retelling Curriculum
A Structured Program for Teaching Story Recall and Recalling Past Events
View the Sequencing CurriculumListen to the Podcast Version of this Info:About the Author: Carrie Clark, MA CCC-SLP
Hi, I’m Carrie! I’m a speech-language pathologist from Columbia, Missouri, USA. I’ve worked with children and teenagers of all ages in schools, preschools, and even my own private practice. I love digging through the research on speech and language topics and breaking it down into step-by-step plans for my followers.
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17 min
March 09, 2016SOTB 10: A Controlling Child with Autism who Can’t Take Turns, Interview with Maureen Wilson
Today I am joined by speech-language pathologist Maureen Wilson from www.thespeechbubbleslp.com who helps me brainstorm ideas for a 5-year-old with autism who won’t participate in anything unless he controls the whole thing.
Links and Notes:
The Speech Bubble SLP: www.thespeechbubbleslp.com
Control
The child needs that control
Try social stories
Behavioral Charts
Sacrifice therapy time to work on behavior
Video Modeling
Visual Reminders and Pre-Corrects
More Resources for Speech-Language Pathologists:
Looking for more therapy ideas and resources to help you provide the BEST services to your clients? Join us in The SLP Solution, our membership program for speech-language professionals! Inside the membership, you’ll find:
Step-By-Step Guides for teaching a variety of speech/language/communication skills
Pre-Made Worksheets and Therapy Activities for hundreds of different topics
Training Videos for dealing with difficult disorders or problems
Answers to Your Questions in our exclusive SLP community
Tools and Resources to help you with your paperwork and admin tasks
Continuing Education through our monthly webinars and webinar recordings
To join us in the full SLP Solution, or to snag a free membership, click on the button below!
JOIN THE MEMBERSHIP TODAY!Carrie’s Best Tools to Simplify your Life:
You have a lot on your plate. Let me help with that!
I’ve put together my best resources here. Whether you’re streamlining your job as a speech-language professional, helping your child with his communication challenges, or trying to meet the diverse needs of your students, I’ve got you covered.
Choose the resource that you need most right now:
Watch “Quick Tip” Videos on InstagramAccess Carrie’s Free Material LibraryGet Materials and Support in The HubGrab our Full Language Curriculum
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27 min
February 16, 2016SOTB 9: A Non-Responsive Child with Autism with Guests Helen and Elizabeth
Join me and my guests Helen and Elizabeth from www.SpeechblogUK.com as we brainstorm some ideas for a child with autism who doesn’t respond to anything.
Links and Notes:
www.SpeechBlogUK.com
Observe the child to look for interests
Intensive Interaction: Do what they’re doing
Gradually introduce your own toys and promote joint attention
Introduce AAC if needed to see what sticks
Get the OT involved or introduce more movement
What’s triggering the behaviors? What are they trying to communicate?
Directions: Find something engaging to throw in a bucket
Do therapy in school/home
Visuals for the classroom
Ask a Question: www.speechandlanguagekids.com/ask
More Resources for Speech-Language Pathologists:
Looking for more therapy ideas and resources to help you provide the BEST services to your clients? Join us in The SLP Solution, our membership program for speech-language professionals! Inside the membership, you’ll find:
Step-By-Step Guides for teaching a variety of speech/language/communication skills
Pre-Made Worksheets and Therapy Activities for hundreds of different topics
Training Videos for dealing with difficult disorders or problems
Answers to Your Questions in our exclusive SLP community
Tools and Resources to help you with your paperwork and admin tasks
Continuing Education through our monthly webinars and webinar recordings
To join us in the full SLP Solution, or to snag a free membership, click on the button below!
JOIN THE MEMBERSHIP TODAY!Carrie’s Best Tools to Simplify your Life:
You have a lot on your plate. Let me help with that!
I’ve put together my best resources here. Whether you’re streamlining your job as a speech-language professional, helping your child with his communication challenges, or trying to meet the diverse needs of your students, I’ve got you covered.
Choose the resource that you need most right now:
Watch “Quick Tip” Videos on InstagramAccess Carrie’s Free Material LibraryGet Materials and Support in The HubGrab our Full Language Curriculum
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25 min
February 03, 2016 Teaching Core Vocabulary for AAC Users (Jeff Stepen)
Free AAC Activity
Teach the word “Help” using AAC
Download for Free!
Or, Get the Full AAC Curriculum
Teaching Core Vocabulary for AAC Users:
In this episode of Speech Therapy: Storm of the Brains, Carrie Clark is joined by Jeff Stepen from www.conversationsinspeech.com to discuss activities that will help target core vocabulary for AAC users.
Watch the AAC Therapy Session Demo
Core Vocabulary for AAC Users Links:
Conversations in Speech Podcast
Pixon Project
PRC Website
Word Toob App
Songs/Music: http://vantatenhove.com/
Toca Boca App
Story Bots App/Website
Ask a Question: www.speechandlanguagekids.com/ask
AAC Curriculum and Mini-Course
Teach a child to start communicating using an AAC/Communication Device or System
$19 ~ Buy Now!
Or, Download the Free Sample
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31 min
January 20, 2016SOTB7: Overview of Voice Disorders and Therapy with Kyle Meades
Today, Carrie Clark is joined by speech-language pathologist Kyle Meades from www.privateslp.com. Kyle shares with us an overview of working with children with voice disorders.
Links:
www.privateSLP.com
Speech therapy Private Practice Startup Podcast
Show Notes:
ENT Referral: Get it first!
Look for reflux, bad posture, overuse (it’s always a symptom of something else)
Assesment:
palpate the larynx during swallow and vocalizing
listen and get samples
look back in the mouth
Screaming and Sensory Problems:
laryngeal massage
easy onset
volume control: computer programs like IBM speech viewer
Environmental factors:
loud places and eqiupment
excessive use of whispering
dry environment
acid reflux
excessive throat clearing
stroke and medical
swimming with ear infection
Ask a Question: www.speechandlanguagekids.com/ask
More Resources for Speech-Language Pathologists:
Looking for more therapy ideas and resources to help you provide the BEST services to your clients? Join us in The SLP Solution, our membership program for speech-language professionals! Inside the membership, you’ll find:
Step-By-Step Guides for teaching a variety of speech/language/communication skills
Pre-Made Worksheets and Therapy Activities for hundreds of different topics
Training Videos for dealing with difficult disorders or problems
Answers to Your Questions in our exclusive SLP community
Tools and Resources to help you with your paperwork and admin tasks
Continuing Education through our monthly webinars and webinar recordings
To join us in the full SLP Solution, or to snag a free membership, click on the button below!
JOIN THE MEMBERSHIP TODAY!Carrie’s Best Tools to Simplify your Life:
You have a lot on your plate. Let me help with that!
I’ve put together my best resources here. Whether you’re streamlining your job as a speech-language professional, helping your child with his communication challenges, or trying to meet the diverse needs of your students, I’ve got you covered.
Choose the resource that you need most right now:
Watch “Quick Tip” Videos on InstagramAccess Carrie’s Free Material LibraryGet Materials and Support in The HubGrab our Full Language Curriculum
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25 min
January 06, 2016SOTB 6: Non-Compliant Children in Therapy with Heidi Britz
Show Notes and Resources Mentioned:
Heidi Britz
www.smartmouthslp.com
YMCA
Yes: offer families confirmation or support
Medical: developmental pediatrician, be aware of financial costs and know resources
Complementary Therapies: OT consult for sensory, ABA consult, school-based programs
Availability: Are they able to learn how to be learners?
Other Resources:
Supporting the child with visuals (Super Symbols for Behavior)
Reduce therapy length
Include sensory breaks
Parent training: Hanen Program (OWL – Observe, wait, listen), Choiceworks app for visual schedule
Ask a Question: www.speechandlanguagekids.com/ask
More Resources for Speech-Language Pathologists:
Looking for more therapy ideas and resources to help you provide the BEST services to your clients? Join us in The SLP Solution, our membership program for speech-language professionals! Inside the membership, you’ll find:
Step-By-Step Guides for teaching a variety of speech/language/communication skills
Pre-Made Worksheets and Therapy Activities for hundreds of different topics
Training Videos for dealing with difficult disorders or problems
Answers to Your Questions in our exclusive SLP community
Tools and Resources to help you with your paperwork and admin tasks
Continuing Education through our monthly webinars and webinar recordings
To join us in the full SLP Solution, or to snag a free membership, click on the button below!
JOIN THE MEMBERSHIP TODAY!
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24 min
September 21, 2015SOTB5: Lateral Lisp Therapy with Meredith Avren
Speech therapists Carrie Clark and Meredith Avren brainstorm therapy ideas for a child with a lateral lisp that just won’t seem to go away!
Links Mentioned: www.peachiespeechie.com
Contact: Meredith Avren, email at [email protected]
Ask a Question: www.speechandlanguagekids.com/ask
More Resources for Speech-Language Pathologists:
Looking for more therapy ideas and resources to help you provide the BEST services to your clients? Join us in The SLP Solution, our membership program for speech-language professionals! Inside the membership, you’ll find:
Step-By-Step Guides for teaching a variety of speech/language/communication skills
Pre-Made Worksheets and Therapy Activities for hundreds of different topics
Training Videos for dealing with difficult disorders or problems
Answers to Your Questions in our exclusive SLP community
Tools and Resources to help you with your paperwork and admin tasks
Continuing Education through our monthly webinars and webinar recordings
To join us in the full SLP Solution, or to snag a free membership, click on the button below!
JOIN THE MEMBERSHIP TODAY!
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27 min
September 09, 2015SOTB4: Tongue Thrust Therapy with Laura Powell
Speech therapists Carrie Clark and Laura Powell brainstorm ideas for helping a child eliminate sucking habits and remediating speech errors that result from tongue thrust.
Links from Today’s Episode:
www.therapyu.org
www.iaom.com
Contact: Laura Powell at [email protected]
Ask a Question: www.speechandlanguagekids.com/ask
More Resources for Speech-Language Pathologists:
Looking for more therapy ideas and resources to help you provide the BEST services to your clients? Join us in The SLP Solution, our membership program for speech-language professionals! Inside the membership, you’ll find:
Step-By-Step Guides for teaching a variety of speech/language/communication skills
Pre-Made Worksheets and Therapy Activities for hundreds of different topics
Training Videos for dealing with difficult disorders or problems
Answers to Your Questions in our exclusive SLP community
Tools and Resources to help you with your paperwork and admin tasks
Continuing Education through our monthly webinars and webinar recordings
To join us in the full SLP Solution, or to snag a free membership, click on the button below!
JOIN THE MEMBERSHIP TODAY!
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23 min
August 31, 2015SOTB3: Young, Unintelligible Children with Kari Vandongen
Speech therapists Carrie Clark and Keri Vandongen brainstorm therapy ideas for children who are young and highly unintelligible. These children are too young for traditional drill and practice so alternatives are needed!
Links from Today’s Episode:
www.myspeechparty.com
www.apraxia-kids.org
EZ speech with David Hammer
Ask a Question: www.speechandlanguagekids.com/ask
More Resources for Speech-Language Pathologists:
Looking for more therapy ideas and resources to help you provide the BEST services to your clients? Join us in The SLP Solution, our membership program for speech-language professionals! Inside the membership, you’ll find:
Step-By-Step Guides for teaching a variety of speech/language/communication skills
Pre-Made Worksheets and Therapy Activities for hundreds of different topics
Training Videos for dealing with difficult disorders or problems
Answers to Your Questions in our exclusive SLP community
Tools and Resources to help you with your paperwork and admin tasks
Continuing Education through our monthly webinars and webinar recordings
To join us in the full SLP Solution, or to snag a free membership, click on the button below!
JOIN THE MEMBERSHIP TODAY!
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25 min