Quick Therapy Ideas
I’ve survived the first few weeks of school! It’s always a huge accomplishment, haha. I thought I’d pop in and share my best quick therapy ideas. Ones that don’t involve prep and are easy-peasy. Here they are: -Drawing: I’ve…
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Back To School Organizational Tips
If you’ve been around for awhile, you know I love organization. At the end of last summer, I shared 16 organizational tips on my Instagram page. I decided it was probably a good idea to compile them all into one…
Becoming an Integral Part of your Special Education Team
If you’re a school-based SLP, then you will work closely with the special education teachers in your school. Today, I’m sharing my tips for becoming an integral part of this team. I’m nearing the end of my 6th year at…
5 Stars for Behavior
I’ve talked about behavior management in this post, but today I’m sharing the tip that has seemed to work really well for my more challenging groups. In this post, I talked about how I use slime as my incentive. It’s…
If You Don’t Love Your Job…
Today we’re talking about something that people don’t often talk about. What do to… I’m a firm believer in “if you don’t love it, change it.” Obviously, you can’t change EVERYTHING in your life, but your job is something that…
Online CEU Options
If you’re a practicing SLP, you need CEUs (continuing education units) in order to renew your state and ASHA license. How can we get them and not have to pay a lot of money to do so? Much to my dismay,…
My Favorite Mixed Group Activities
Mixed groups a beast that every school based SLP has to face. While we might start out the year with nicely separated articulation and language groups, by the end of the year those groups are a mishmash of both. It’s…
What I Wish I Knew During My Clinical Fellowship
They say hindsight is 20:20, and as this is my 9th year as an SLP, I think it’s time to write about what I wish I knew during my clinical fellowship year! There is a difference between articulation and phonological…
Clinical Skills Confidence: Collaboration with Teachers
It’s been a little bit since I’ve done a Clinical Skills Confidence post, but this is an area that I feel like I’ve definitely gotten much better at this in the past years. If you’re a CF or you’re new…