The Speech Umbrella

Helping clients organize their language is a huge part of what we do. Using boxes to represent language concepts can help the abstract become concrete. In this podcast we describe many ways a box can take your therapy to the next level. 

Narrative language intervention with young adults can get complicated pretty fast, leaving therapists wondering how to intervene effectively. Join us as we take a deep dive into a case study with a young adult. Free downloadable resources for this age are available in the Free Resource Library. 

Early Intervention therapy can be challenging without good information on  the developmental order of foundational skills, such as gestures. This episode introduces a fantastic resource for clinicians and parents on gesture development and its connection to language. Find and download a free tracking chart for gestures in the Free Resource Library. 

Some children’s first spoken language is sound effects, and language therapy with a child like this might go nowhere fast unless the SLP recognizes and begins speaking their language. Tune into this episode and get some tips on how to treat these children.

Are you tearing your hair out over a persistent lisp? Do you have a client with a lateral lisp that resists correction? If so, then this podcast can help you understand what to look at in order to correct that lisp once and for all. 

If you’ve ever wondered what PROMPT therapy is all about, then this podcast is for you. In this episode you’ll get an overview of how speech therapists use PROMPT to look at all of the aspects of articulation, the order they develop, and how they integrate. 

My best tip for upping your productivity and reducing stress is featured in today’s podcast. May is Better Speech and Hearing month, and I’d like to share how I become a better therapist. Improving my productivity while reducing my stress allows me the time and mental space to problem solve in areas where I’m stuck. Try it! It can work for you, too. 

To finish up autism awareness month, we have a special guest this week. Join us to hear David’s mother, Rebecca, describe their struggles and triumphs with autism. David has been featured in all the podcasts this month, and  I know you’re going to love hearing his story from his mother’s perspective. 

If you’ve been tuning into The Mindful SLP podcasts this month, then you already know a little about my client David, who is on the autism spectrum, and the significant progress he has made in the past year. In this week’s episode, I describe how David got started telling stories. You’ll also get to hear recordings of him telling stories—a not to be missed thrill for SLPs!

This week’s podcast describes how teaching Stage One Sentence Types dramatically improved expressive language in a client with autism, and how you can try the same intervention. Essential Language for Autism helps children with autism fill in missing essential language building blocks, and discover self generated language.