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Think-It-Through-Thursday: What Do People With Aphasia Want To Say?

It’s Think-It-Through-Thursday! Today I’m wrapping up this spring series that was intended 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! Each blog post included a recent research article and some thoughts about how this relates (or […]

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 […]

One Click: Response Elaboration Training (RET)

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. It’s difficult to feel confident about using evidence-based treatments AND how to […]

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 […]

Think it Through Thursday: Discourse + High WAB Scores

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 […]

Conversation Partner Training Packet

Hi everyone! Today’s the launch day for my next functional labor of love! I’m excited to finally be sharing my Conversation Partner Training Packet (Printables + “How-To” using evidence to train Conversation Partners for aphasia in real life situations). For persons with aphasia, quality practice with training communication partners is vital for person-centered care and a […]

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 […]