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Think It Through Thursday: Impairment vs Activity and Participation

It’s Think-It-Through-Thursday! Here’s a new series to give you and your SLP colleagues some food for thought. Feel free to print and discuss at lunch or use for continuing education or journal review! I will include a recent research article and some thoughts about how this relates (or doesn’t relate) to some of the practices […]

Top 10 Reasons for Person-Centered Care

Are you still on the fence about why we need to choose goals and speech therapy activities that matter to everyday life? Check out some research below that helps make the case! There are many reasons to choose real-life goals, toss the workbooks, close the game closets, and choose personally relevant stimuli instead! Why does […]

Garden Seed Packets

Happy Tuesday, SLP’s! I’m thinking spring over here in Michigan, even thought it’s a gray and dreary day. Spring time gives me a fresh sense of functional tasks to work on in speech therapy: Gardening, ordering mulch, home projects, new recipes, lawn care, outdoor social events. I have multiple sections devoted to these topics in […]

Functional Home Programs for Speech Therapy

Are you tired of using generic worksheets for homework in speech therapy with adults? Today I am sharing the ONE THING you need to know to easily create a personalized, functional home program for the adults you work with.

Real Life Speech Therapy: Olympics 2018

The Olympics are coming! The Olympics are coming! The Olympics are loved across ages and cultures: They are a great tool to be used in relevant, functional ways for speech therapy. Read on for some inspiration on how you could use Olympic material as a vehicle to target a variety of  goals in speech therapy.

Nail Salon: Real Life Speech Therapy

Have you ever treated someone in speech therapy whose interests were outside your comfort zone? For me, it’s the “Handy” people! As a self-proclaimed non-handy person, I barely know how to use the right terminology with someone who is into cars, hunting, or woodworking! I’ve talked about this before with my Car Maintenance Checklist! Today […]

One Click: Semantic Feature Analysis

If you are like me, you are busy treating patients during the day and can’t absorb a treatment protocol / prep materials / figure out who to use it with / figure out how to word things in documentation… all on your lunch break. Here’s where the One Click series comes in: This series highlights various treatment […]

Med Management: Real Life Speech Therapy

Hello SLPs and colleagues! Today I am introducing a new series: The “Real Life Speech Therapy” series will focus on activity and participation of specific tasks, with tools for the everyday SLP to use across assessment, goal-setting, therapy, external language and cognitive supports, and home program. If you’ve ever finished a worksheet, card game, or another […]

YouTube Treasures: The Gift of Giving

It’s Week 8 of YouTube Treasures for speech therapy! I hope you’ve enjoyed this 8-week series of YouTube videos, with person-centered treatment ideas for speech therapy.  The best thing about using relevant, interesting material in speech therapy is that it gets people talking in therapy, which makes it easy to apply skills and strategies to their […]

YouTube Treasures: How To Care for a Pet Guinea Pig

It’s Week 7 of YouTube Treasures for speech therapy! If you are just tuning in, this is an 8-week series so you have a fresh treasure trove of YouTube videos, with person-centered treatment ideas for speech therapy.  If you’re new to YouTube or want some new ideas for how to use these videos in therapy, read […]