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 […]

50% Off, Anyone? An Update!

Hi fellow SLP’s! Today I wanted to share a quick UPDATE and an OFFER! I am thrilled about what we together are achieving to move our adult speech therapy practices to person-centered care.

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 […]

Instagram! And a Challenge…

Hi SLP’s! It’s a new year and I’m more encouraged than ever at our growing community of SLP’s who want to help move our field to person-centered care. That means making therapy relevant, functional, and personal to the great variety of people we work with. Because a picture is worth a thousand words: I am […]

Writing Functional Goals

Hi fellow SLPs! To wrap up our 2017, I’m excited to share some of my absolutely favorite functional goal-setting resources. It was 5 years ago that I committed to learning how to make my practices as an SLP more “functional” (which I came to realize was all about Person-Centered Care!). Maybe you too are looking […]

Real Life Speech Therapy: Holiday Conversations

Today the Real Life Speech Therapy topic is Holiday Conversations: With the upcoming holidays, this is the perfect time of year to incorporate meaningful goals through scripts that your Person can use with holiday gatherings! The “Real Life Speech Therapy” series will focus on activity and participation of specific tasks, with tools for the everyday SLP […]