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Date: March 12, 2025 Name of podcast: The Colorful Podcast Spot Episode title and number: Season 2-Episode 4: Positive and Adverse Childhood Experiences: Therapy Perspective Article link: Flip the Script: Maximizing the Positives in Children’s Lives Today’s episode discusses the ways positive childhood experiences can impact children’s lives for the better. While we frequently hear about the negat...

  Date: February 19, 2025 Name of podcast: The Colorful Podcast Spot Episode title and number: Season 2-Episode 3: Artificial Intelligence and Speech Therapy: A Research Discussion  Article:  AI Screening Tool Seeks to Automate Documentation for Busy SLPs Join us as we jump into our first summary and discussion with a current research article. We loved getting to read and talk about AI screening t...

Date: January 29, 2025 Name of podcast: The Colorful Podcast Spot Episode title and number: Season 2-Episode 2: Speech CEUs Join us as we dive into continuing education —a topic that plays a crucial role in keeping up to date with the current research and strategies and also helps SLPs feel confident in their knowledge and abilities to treat a diverse range of clients. We share what you need to kn...

Date: January 22, 2025 Name of podcast: The Colorful Podcast Spot Episode title and number: Season 2-Episode 1: Welcome Back to the Colorful Podcast Spot! Welcome back to year two of the Colorful Podcast Spot! We’re back from our holiday break and full of new ideas and inspiration for the upcoming episodes. Join us today as we recap our first year of this podcast and share some of our favorite hig...

Date: January 15, 2025 Name of podcast: The Colorful Podcast Spot Episode title and number: Episode 48: Music Therapy Part Two Welcome back to part two of our discussion with Veronica Manges about music therapy! In this episode, we dive even deeper into this captivating topic and learn about a variety of considerations that exist within the field of music therapy, including cultural awareness, how...

Date: December 4, 2024 Name of podcast: The Colorful Podcast Spot Episode title and number: Episode 47: Music Therapy Part One Join us for the first segment of our two-part series all about music therapy with the wonderful Veronica Manges. We were absolutely fascinated to learn about what music therapy is and how it can help a wide variety of individuals, and we know you will be too! Come with us...

Join us as we explore how Dynamic Movement Intervention empowers kids to reach new milestones through collaboration and innovation! Amanda Witherspoon and Jennifer Walkup explain some of the basics of DMI and how they incorporate it into their practices.

Unleash your inner child and come learn about the power of play. Join us in this episode as we dive deeper into the transformative potential of playful experiences and discuss a variety of play schemas, play milestones, and more!

Tune in and turn up the volume to hear our new episode all about play. We loved chatting with Megan Hinton about how she incorporates play into her therapy sessions and why targeting goals through play is so effective. Let us know your favorite ways to play in therapy in the comments!

Today we dive into the importance of imitation and how you can work on this with your littles! Imitation is such an important skill for the development of our kids. There are so many steps to imitation, which leads to so many fun ways to target it! 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭: Let us know your favorite ways to target imitation! 𝐓𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝐈𝐧: Listen now to our thoughts on imitation! (see bio for link to podcast) 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 &am...

Date: October 30, 2024 Name of podcast: The Colorful Podcast Spot Episode title and number: Episode 41: AAC resources List of resources, suggested materials, affiliate links, and social media: Resource #1: AAC Language Lab Resource #2: Assistiveware.com Resource #3: Speech and Language Kids https://www.speechandlanguagekids.com/teach-your-child-to-use-an-aac-device/ The Ultimate AAC Resource Page...

We’ve been loving our AAC month conversations and are so excited to continue the discussion with our PT and OT friends about how they integrate AAC into their sessions. They give tips for how SLPs can support them in using AAC, talk about successes and challenges they face within their sessions, and share what they’ve learned along their AAC journey!

Q&A: What is the difference between low tech and high tech AAC?⁣ ⁣ 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭: ⁣ What is your favorite low tech or high tech AAC? ⁣ 𝐓𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝐈𝐧: ⁣ Listen now to hear us answer this great question! (see bio for link to podcast)⁣ ⁣ 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 & 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞: ⁣ Follow us on Instagram! Subscribe to the podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!⁣ ⁣ 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞: ⁣ Let your friends know about the podcast to help start t...

Welcome to our AAC series! October is AAC awareness month and we are so excited to kick it off today by chatting with Jennifer Hopper, an AAC consultant. Listen to this episode to hear everything from how to start the process of getting an AAC device to hearing functional ways we’ve used AAC to support families and clients!

This week's Q&A is all about speech therapy in schools! Let's learn about the referral process and timeline, as well as what teachers can look for to know when to refer or talk to an SLP! 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭: Let us know about your school speech experiences! 𝐓𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝐈𝐧: Listen now to hear our answer! (see bio for link to podcast) 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 & 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞: Follow us on Instagram! Subscribe to the podcast on Spo...

This episode is a must listen for both parents and therapists! We learned so much from our discussion with Paige Kehrli M.A., CCC-SLP about how being a mother has shaped her perception of speech therapy and language development. She shares her perspective about motherhood, speech, literacy, and everything in between!

Continue our conversation with Melissa Bridge M.S., CCC-SLP about supervision in speech therapy. Melissa has such a passion for this area of the field which shines through in how she shares her knowledge and experience with this topic!

Join us while we chat with Melissa Bridge M.S., CCC-SLP about supervision in speech therapy. Melissa has such a passion for this area of the field which shines through in how she shares her knowledge and experience with this topic!

Our next Q&A is an important question... When do you discharge from speech therapy? Every therapist does things a little differently, but listen to what we take into account when discharging our kids!

No better way to wrap up our finding jobs and interviewing series than a multidisciplinary episode with two of our favorite OT and PT friends! Join us as we discuss their perspectives on resumes, interviews, job searching, and all the details in between!

Date : August 21, 2024 Name of podcast : The Colorful Podcast Spot Episode title and number : Episode 32: Resume and Interview Tips Brief summary of episode : Join us as we discuss our best tips and tricks for resumes and interviews. We provide resources and share our best strategies for having a resume that will stand out and how to be well prepared to interview for your dream job! List of resour...

It's back to school time! Today's question comes from one of our listeners who is trying to better help their child's transition back to school following the long summer break. We provide some of the suggestions we have given parents in the past that have seemed to help. We hope you have the best school year! Comment here or on our Instagram about what helps you most with the transitio...

Listen as we talk all things interviewing from a hiring perspective! Sam Shaffer and Erika Baldwin join as we dive into everyone's experiences with hiring and finding good hiring fits for the companies we work for. There are many facets to finding the right fit in a job and our goal is that this conversation can help you think deeper and fully prepare for your next job interview!

Listen as we talk all things interviewing! Sam Shaffer and Maggie Reeves join as we dive into how we all chose a job location for our CF year. We continue by covering how our CF year and following years shaped our priorities in our current and future jobs. We even touch on the route that each of us take in looking for a new job. There are many facets to finding the right fit in a job and our goal...