Speech and Language Kids Podcast

Imagine being able to snap your fingers and instantly create a 3rd grade reading passage that's all about Minecraft and is packed full of /r/ words. Do you have anyone on your caseload that could use that? What about a word list of 6th grade science vocab that all use prefixes? Or a custom social story specific to the exact behavior that your client is struggling with? Well…it may not come at the...

Little Alex comes into your therapy space like a Tasmanian Devil! He hasn't stopped moving since he stepped foot in the door and he's touched everything in reach. In fact, half of your stuff is already on the floor. What's a therapist to do? Never fear, my friends! I'm speech-language pathologist Carrie Clark and in this episode of The Speech and Language Kids Podcast, I'm going to show you how to...

It's No-Prep December and that means that I'm challenging you NOT to prep any therapy activities for the whole month. But how do we do that for language therapy? How do we do it for younger children? Or teenagers? Or elementary-aged students? Is it possible to go no-prep for language therapy?? Well, I'm speech-language pathologist Carrie Clark and in this episode of The Speech and Language Kids Po...

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 benefits to group therapy! Kids are much more likely to work on these hard skills when they see other kids wo...

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 can you streamline your data collection processes.

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 give yourself some slack? We're doing a no-prep challenge this year and it's going to change the way you look at therapy!

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 practicing their skill quietly to themselves. While everyone is coming in and getting settled, you have a few minutes to walk around and make sure everyone is practi...

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 around. So what's an SLP to do? Well don't worry, I'm Carrie Clark and in this episode of the speech and language kids podcast, I'm going to show y...