I love using themes in speech therapy. Part of it is selfish because I just love themes myself. Some of my favorite memories of school as a kid were the “Right to Read” weeks, when our teachers would decorate our classrooms like the circus or the great outdoors, or Pioneer Day, when we raided our grandma’s attics for outfits to…
Well hello there, it’s been a minute! I’ve been in the midst of evaluations, IEPs, and adding new kids to my therapy schedule…all the fun things I’m sure everyone else is doing this time of year, too! I’d thought I’d pop in for a moment to talk about a few things that are kind of saving my life right now,…
As SLPs, we do it all. We write goals, collect data, conduct informal assessments constantly, we’re behavior police, we listen, we hold meetings, we write ALL THE IEPs. Basically, we’re rock stars. Yet somehow, there is somehow this pressure (probably put on ourselves, from ourselves) to have Pinterest-perfect therapy sessions, color coordinate everything, spend hours making everything perfect, and send…
I’m trying to be more aware of how I’m making progress as an SLP, and even in life. You know, when you have those lightbulb moments, or when you think, I need to remember this! So here are some things lately I’ve been taking note of! When I’m trying to learn something new, I need to account for the learning…
This post contains affiliate links. For more information about affiliate links, please click here. At the start of this past school year, I got a new job. It’s closer to home, allows me to work part time, and is wonderful. Both this job, and my previous job involved some travel. At my old position, two days of the week I…
While my younger students couldbe content to cut and glue craftivities or play games with picture cards all day, my older elementary and middle school students can be harder to engage with my typical, go-to articulation activities. Now don’t get me wrong, with enough enthusiasm, fun, and maybe some added rules, it’s possible to convince almost anyone your therapy activity…
Today I have a quick tutorial for how to get rid of that annoying white border around products when creating them in PowerPoint. It is a super easy fix, but it took me way too long to figure it out, and other tutorials I found out there didn’t work for me. Before getting started on your product, slide size…
In my LAST POST, I discussed ways I try to practice good parent communication when working in the clinic. Today I want to switch gears and talk about parent communication in the schools. Communicating with parents in the schools can be challenging, since we don’t interact face to face with them to the same degree we would in a clinic…
This past school year, I got a new job. I work for a pediatric therapy company that has both a clinic and contracts with local schools to provide physical, occupational, and speech therapy. So I split my time between the clinic and several schools, and I love it! I feel like I get the best of both worlds. I mentioned…
Hello there! If you don’t know me, I’m Emily and I’m a speech-language pathologist. This past year has brought a lot of changes for me–I changed jobs, I’m learning how to be a mama to a now 1-year-old, and I’ve been cooking up some fun creative projects in the form of my Teachers Pay Teachers store (and talking about…