Speech Therapy Ideas for Functional Communication: Communicating Wants and Needs How do you help a child who can't speak to tell you what they need? What about a little one who has meltdowns and tantrums but can't tell you why? How can we teach a child some basic, functional communication skills that will help

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The Cycles Therapy Approach for Children who are Very Hard to Understand If you haven't tried the Cycles Approach to phonology therapy yet, you're missing out! This is an amazing therapy method that is especially designed for children who are highly unintelligible and who have multiple phonological processes, or sound errors. The idea is

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Using AI to Generate Custom Materials for Speech/Language Therapy Imagine being able to snap your fingers and instantly create a 3rd grade reading passage that's all about Minecraft and is packed full of /r/ words. Do you have anyone on your caseload that could use that? What about a word list of 6th grade

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Sensory and Movement Ideas for Better Participation and Behavior Little Alex comes into your therapy space like a Tasmanian Devil! He hasn't stopped moving since he stepped foot in the door and he's touched everything in reach. In fact, half of your stuff is already on the floor. What's a therapist to do? Never

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No-Prep Ideas for Language Therapy It's No-Prep December and that means that I'm challenging you NOT to prep any therapy activities for the whole month. But how do we do that for language therapy? How do we do it for younger children? Or teenagers? Or elementary-aged students? Is it possible to go no-prep for language

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No-Prep Group Speech/Language Therapy Ideas When you're a speech-language pathologist with a caseload of 70 or more kids, group therapy is a necessary evil. Sometimes it feels like group speech/language therapy only happens because we don't have enough time to see each child individually. But there are actually a lot of really great

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How to NOT Take Data during Speech/Language Therapy Data or it didn't happen, right?? As speech-language professionals, it is crucial that we collect data to know exactly how our clients are doing. Or is it? Today we're going to explore the questions of how much data do you ACTUALLY need to collect and how

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No-Prep December Challenge! I Challenge you to do Less Do you think you could go a full month without prepping any activities for therapy? Would you like to try? December is a notoriously busy month and usually our clients and students are all zany with that "pre-holiday" energy. So how about this year, you

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