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It's Halloween in My Speech Room!
This week my fellow Frenzied SLPs and I are blogging about Halloween-themed language activities. Let's get real, Halloween week at school is ROUGH. To top it off, we have a full moon and Hurricane...
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Building Your Students' Vocabulary {Part 2 in a Series}
To be completely transparent, for more than half of my career, I was torn about exactly how to attack vocabulary- about providing instruction that would actually have an impact past my therapy room. I...
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Part 3 in a Series
I want to share with you some more tried and true strategies for teaching vocabulary. The first is LINCS from the University of Kansas. LINCS is a mnemonic device for ingraining new words. It helps...
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#BookSnaps
Thanks for sticking with me through this series about vocabulary. For those of you working with middle and high school students, this one is for YOU! We've all had them:Students who turn their noses up...
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How do I begin to say thank you?
It's been such a long time since I've written. There are lots of reasons for that. As our area was just about recovered from the "Great Flood" of 2016, my parents' home flooded in my hometown 100 miles...
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8 Things You Need to Know When Working with a Student Who has Autism { #1 }
You may notice that my blogging was on hold all summer. That's because my brain was about explode from learning so much! This past June I had the pleasure of hearing Dr. Patrick Rydell, an SLP who owns...
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8 Things You Need to Know When Working with a Student Who has Autism { #2 }
Are you ready for the SECOND most important thing I think you need to know when working with students who have ASD? If not, scroll down to read #1 first! If so, here it is: Now that your student has...
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8 Things You Need to Know When Working with a Student Who has Autism { #3 }
I hope you are all coming down off of a beautiful holiday season! As you can imagine, it's been a hectic time of year, and the festivities and Christmas prep have kept me away from blogging. In fact,...
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6 Reasons to Use Playdough in Speech & Language Therapy
Ahhhhhh!! It's been ages since I've blogged. My full-time SLP day job has really gotten the best of me over the past few months and has kept me from the things I love. If you are a school SLP, you may...
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Throwback: SLPs circa 1964 in honor of Better Speech and Hearing Month
Happy Better Speech and Hearing Month to my SLPeeps! In the spirit of BSHM, I just had to share a rare find (that only SLPs will enjoy) I stumbled upon while cleaning out my office. You see, I moved...
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#4 IN A SERIES: 8 things you need to know about working with children with...
Okay so, YIKES, I got a little distracted. I'm sorry I left you hanging after numbers 1, 2, and 3, but here we are again. Thanks for hanging in with me! The FOURTH thing you need to know when working...
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MEMES Only SLPs Will Laugh At
It's back to school time, and as I think about all that our jobs as SLPs entail, I have to chuckle. I mean, apparently we have super powers because we do SO much (much of which only WE understand) and...
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#5 in a series: 8 things you need to know about working with children with...
Thanks for hanging with me - back to school madness and a spine surgery has kept me away, but I'm back and ready to talk about the 5th thing YOU need to know when working with children who have autism....
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How Alexa Changed My SLP Life
In the summer of 2017, I got my first Amazon Echo (with Alexa). I really purchased it just to listen to music in our home (which, yep, it's great for), but within weeks I knew I had to have one in my...
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