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 […]

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 […]

The Election, Voting, and Speech Therapy

With the US presidential election about 1 month away, it’s a perfect time of year to talk all things “Election,” “Voting,” and “Speech Therapy!”. Think you want to stay away from politics in your session? Consider this: These are the conversations our People are having this month! Voting may be an activity they hope to […]

Instant Resource: Car Maintenance Checklist

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! Checklists have made it much easier for me to structure questions, […]

Instant Resource: The Olympics! (Inspiration for Speech Therapy)

The Olympics are coming! Because the Olympics are loved across ages and cultures, I think they can 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!

Instant Resource: Answering Phone Calls in Speech Therapy

Today, I’m talking about how answering phone calls and handling information from the phone call can be used in speech therapy. This is the other half of the idea I shared a few weeks ago for practice making low-pressure phone calls.  Making a phone call can be a little more controlled than answering a phone call where the caller has […]

Instant Resource: Text Size and Type Trials

Over the past month, I’ve had several brain injury and chronic memory or dementia patients in my office! I’ve made quite a few person-centered cognitive supports in the form of signs or labels. Today I’m sharing a Text Size and Type Trial sheet I made for use in therapy to quickly see if a certain […]

Instant Resource: Making Low-Pressure Phone Calls

Phone calls can be a great therapy task, because almost every adult wants to be able to talk on the phone! For adults that feel hesitant about returning to that skill, I practice “low pressure” real-life phone calls in therapy. “Low Pressure” means the person on the other end of the phone will never know the speaker if it […]

Instant Resource: Background Noises

Today I’m sharing a collection of free background noises to use in speech therapy. We work with people returning to restaurants, malls, jobs, and families, so let’s bring a little of this into the therapy space.  Try adding some distracting background noise during the session to make the environment more like real life. I find background noise useful/functional […]