fbpx

My Notepad

Speech Therapy Makeover: Worksheets for Homework

Welcome to Week 7 in the Speech Therapy Makeover series! I’m challenging myself to “make over” some traditional therapy tasks so they will be more person-centered (functional, meaningful, and relevant for the people we work with). We know that person-centered care offers the best results across the board for outcomes, patient satisfaction, and efficiency of meeting goals. Week 6 Speech Therapy […]

Speech Therapy Makeover: Workbook Writing Tasks

Welcome to Week 5 in the Speech Therapy Makeover series! I’m challenging myself to “make over” some traditional therapy tasks so they will be more person-centered (functional, meaningful, and relevant for the people we work with). We know that person-centered care offers the best results across the board for outcomes, patient satisfaction, and efficiency of meeting goals. Week […]

Speech Therapy Makeover: Clinician-Centered Goals

Welcome to Week 3 in the Speech Therapy Makeover series! I’m challenging myself to “make over” some traditional speech therapy tasks so they will be more person-centered (functional, meaningful, and relevant for the people we work with). We know that person-centered care offers the best results across the board for outcomes, patient satisfaction, and efficiency of meeting goals. Week […]

Speech Therapy Makeover: Card Game Homework

Welcome to Week 2 in the Speech Therapy Makeover series! I’m challenging myself to “make over” some traditional therapy tasks so they will be more person-centered (functional, meaningful, and relevant for the people we work with). We know that person-centered care offers the best results across the board for outcomes, patient satisfaction, and efficiency of meeting goals. Week 2 Speech […]

Speech Therapy Makeover: Naming Animals

Welcome to Week 1 in the Speech Therapy Makeover series! I’m challenging myself to “make over” some traditional therapy tasks so they will be more person-centered (functional, meaningful, and relevant for the people we work with). We know that person-centered care offers the best results across the board for outcomes, patient satisfaction, and efficiency of meeting goals. […]

Top 10: Person-Centered Care

Happy Holidays to my fellow SLP’s, near and far! Thank you for your support in 2016: a year of taking chances, making time to be creative, and believing that we can make a difference one patient at a time! I plan to start 2017 with a “Speech Therapy Makeover” Series in January: sign up for email updates […]

Functional Toolbox: Menus

The Functional Toolbox posts explore how we could use functional, real-life items in speech therapy, to exercise language or cognitive skills, or practice strategies that improve function.  Some patients have a negative reaction to worksheets, so using functional, tangible items is another vehicle we can use to target patient-centered goals or strategies.  Today I am sharing speech therapy […]

One Click: Script Training

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 […]

One Click: RET {Response Elaboration Training}

*Updated 4/18: This packet has been updated to include personally relevant stimuli and is no longer free! However, it is available for an affordable price in my store! 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 […]

SLP Interview Tool {Job Tasks}

Today I’m sharing some free printables to use in speech therapy for people returning to work. Where do you start when jobs can be so different? For me, understanding personalized job needs and writing good goals is priority #1 for these patients! I’ve created a few SLP Interview Tools that help make this fact-finding process efficient and part […]