Ahmad's Story: Childhood Apraxia of Speech and the Motor Speech Pathway In this episode, Carrie shares the story of a sweet 5-year-old boy named Ahmad (name changed for privacy) and his journey with childhood apraxia of speech. From using AAC to working through early speech sounds, Carrie walks through the specific framework and strategies

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Arianna's Story: Preschool Speech and Language How do you know where to start with a preschooler who’s hard to understand? In today’s episode, I’m walking you through a real-life case study of a sweet little one (we’ll call her Arianna) who had significant speech and language challenges. I’ll share the exact process I

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Speech/Language Therapy 101: Back to Basics for SLPs and Caregivers Are you looking for the simplest, most effective way to teach communication skills to children and teens? Well, search no farther! I'm speech-language pathologist Carrie Clark and in today's episode of The Speech and Language Kids Podcast, we're diving into exactly how to make

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The Teletherapy Playbook: Proven Strategies for Faster Progress in Virtual Speech Sessions It's no secret that teletherapy speech/language therapy services soared during the pandemic. Telepractice use among SLPs jumped from just 3.9% pre-pandemic to 88% by 2021. (source) And while teletherapy services are not quite as prevalent now as they were at the height

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A Therapy Pathway for Frontal and Lateral Speech Errors (aka "Lisps") Today we're talking about "lisps". But many professionals are moving away from using the term lisp because it often carries a negative or stigmatizing connotation, especially outside of clinical contexts. Instead, we're focusing on describing speech patterns more precisely using phonetic terms. For

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From Chaos to Clarity: Why One-Off Activities Are Failing Your Therapy Sessions You spend all evening scouring the internet for the perfect activity for little Timmy. You print. You cut. You laminate. You velcro. He's gonna love it. And then... ...it lasts all of two seconds and then he's bored. I'm speech-language pathologist Carrie

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Free Speech/Language Progress Monitoring Tools Now Available! Well, the flu has hit my house! Instead of a full podcast episode today, I'm giving you a quick update about our new progress monitoring tools located inside The Speech and Language Kids Hub. Here's how it works: 1. Fill Out the Free Speech/Language Screening Checklist

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When Should Children be able to Say Certain Sounds? (And How Can We Help? One of the top questions I get is about whether or not a child should be saying certain speech sounds. Let me tell you, there is a WIDE range of normal when it comes to speech sound acquisition. But in

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