YouTube Treasures: Knitting
Hello, hello! I’m back after a little break off-line and full of ideas to share, focusing on how YOU can make your speech therapy sessions with adults functional, meaningful, and relevant. I even re-organized the Idea Blog into searchable topics including Aphasia + Personalized Protocols, Home Sweet Home Topics, Back To Work Topics, Hobby Hub, […]
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 Listening Tasks
Welcome to Week 6 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 […]
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: Workbook Reading Tasks
Welcome to Week 4 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 4 Speech […]
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 […]