True Confessions with Lisa & Sarah

True Confessions with Lisa & Sarah

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  • E23: I wasn't trained to train an SLP-A.

    It's our final episode of the season 🎉 Thank you for coming along on this journey with us! We have loved every single minute of this and can't wait to come back and start a new season in a couple months!

    We are thrilled to have our friend, Amy Hill, in the confessional to chat about everything SLP-A related! Amy is the perfect guest to have on to talk about this subject as she is the program director for the SLP-A program at Estrella Mountain Community College and AZ Executive Director of Clinical Support for Light Street Special Education Solutions - where she oversees SLPs and SLP-A's.

    With the new SLP-A ASHA certification coming soon, this is a great listen for any SLP-A or SLP supervisor! Navigating this working relationship can be tricky! Hopefully this will help :)


    47 min
  • E22: I "may have" made up data for progress reports.

    In our latest episode we are getting real about writing progress reports. We have done some things we are not proud of but the reality is that this part of our job is tough! We share the mistakes we made as well as solutions right in time for you to start writing your end of year progress reports!


    www.slptoolkit.com

    26 min
  • E21: I was worried RTI would add to my workload.

    In our previous episode about interpreting articulation norms we mentioned the use of RTI as a possible solution to providing earlier intervention. In this episode we are going to go in deeper on what that can look like and discuss if it's worthwhile! We are thrilled to have our friend, Laurel Bruce, an SLP and PhD student, in the confessional to share her experience and research! 

    Resources:

    Laurel Bruce Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/speech.geek/

    RTI Resources from Jennifer Taps Richard: http://slpath.com/ 

    Link to free Articulation Therapy Flowchart: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Articulation-Therapy-Flowchart-4518367 

    Link to free articulation screener: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Grab-Go-Artic-Quick-Speech-Articulation-Screening-1359302 

    Information about Speech Therapist’s App for /r/ Treatment (staRt) app: https://wp.nyu.edu/byunlab/projects/start/ 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGFdED4HDcw

    42 min
  • E20: I used to pull IEP present levels out of my $@&!

    Have you ever found yourself writing an IEP and filling out the present levels with something like "Johnny is a sweet boy with a nice smile who has lots of friends" and then nothing else? Yeah, us too! We are chatting about all of the frustration of current processes for gathering data at annual reviews as well as our big Aha! that led us to creating Present Level Assessments inside of SLP Toolkit. 

    Resources mentioned in this episode:

    How is "appropriate progress" defined by the U.S. Supreme Court?

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    50 min
  • E19: We have been interpreting the articulation norms all wrong.

    Many of us have seen the new speech sound norms infographic published by McLeod and Crowe circulating on the internet and there are a lot of feelings about what this means for school based SLPs. We are thrilled to have Kelly Farquharson, Associate Professor at FSU and speech sound expert, in the confessional to chat all about it! This episode was eye opening for us as we discovered that these norms aren't "new" and we have been interpreting the standard circulated norms (i.e. Iowa-Nebraska) all wrong. This is an important discussion and one that made us a bit nervous as sometimes researchers and practicing clinicians view the therapy world through a different lens. Tune in to find out how this conversation went down.


    Resources referenced in this episode: 

    The Informed SLP: That one time a journal article on speech sounds broke the SLP internet. 


    It Might Not Be "Just Artic": The Case for the Single Sound Error


    Quality of language intervention provided to primary-grade students with language impairment


    Variability in Interpreting “Educational Performance” for Children With Speech Sound Disorders


    Using Response to Intervention for Speech Sound Disorders: Exploring Practice Characteristics and Geographical Differences

    59 min
  • E18: I used to avoid writing social goals because I didn't know how to measure them.

    We were thrilled to have Ryan Hendrix with Social Thinking as a guest on this episode. We loved chatting about how best to support students with social learning differences. Lisa & I confess how we struggled with how best to assess, write objective goals and measure progress on pragmatic language skills. Ryan shares her discovery on how complex treatment is and everything she has learned in her role as a social cognitive therapist.

    We are obsessed with all things Social Thinking so we may have geeked out a little bit :)


    Resources mentioned in this episode:

    Social Thinking

    Dynamic Assessment

    More on Dynamic Assessment

    Social Competency Model

    Research Supporting Social Thinking

    Clinical Training Program

    48 min
  • E15: What really went down at ASHA 2018!
    In this episode, we spill the tea on what went down at the ASHA convention! Listen to find out what we really think about the convention, what we learned from talking to so many awesome SLPs and what it was like to have the best exhibit hall neighbors ever! And stick around until the end when we answer some of your questions!
    1 hr 14 min

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Being a school based SLP is hard and we have made many mistakes along the way! This podcast is all about what really happens in the speech room as well as adventures in starting our own company!