The Preschool SLP: KellyVessSLP
By Kelly Vess, MA, CCC-SLP
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Episodes: 198
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Get ready for all things speech pathology: AAC, ADHD, Apraxia, Articulation Therapy, Autism, Behavior, Early Intervention, Executive Function, Evidence-Based Practice, Gestalt Language, Literacy Intervention, Movement, Multi-Modal Cueing, Narratives, Partnerships, Phonological Awareness, Sensory, Speech Strategies, Target Selection, Technology, Telehealth, and Self-care. Be better. Do better. Create better. Make the world a better place, one person at a time. You're first. Join Kelly every Thursday and at the drawing board.
Do better with easy step-by-step 'how-to's' with ready-for-use printables and over 100 video clips of best practices, check out Kelly's book "Speech Sound Disorders: Comprehensive Evaluation and Treatment." It is available at Amazon and major booksellers internationally.
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198. Put PRIDE to Work to Improve Behavior: Evidence-Based PRIDE Skills from PCIT That Really Work
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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197. Ten Predictors of Poor Progress in Speech Therapy—and How to Turn It Around
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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196. 10 Reasons to Use the ‘Look at’ Sentence Strip to Spark Speech in Autism
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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195. Groundbreaking Autism Study Reveals How Autism Can Develop At Any Age and How to D.S.D.
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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194. 5 Myths About High-Tech AAC—Debunked by Research
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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192. Are Final Clusters the Overlooked Key to Greater Speech and Language Gains?
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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191. 4 Strategies to Build Decontextualized Language for Stronger Conversation Skills
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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190. How to Use Digital Tools to Actually Boost Language and Literacy in Preschoolers
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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189. AAC + Social Communication: How Do You Do It?
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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188. Does Telepractice for Speech Sound Disorders Actually Work?
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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187. The 3 Biggest Goal-Writing Mistakes (and How to Fix Them for Massive Speech Gains)
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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186. How to Write Speech Goals That Actually WORK: Be Effective & Educate
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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185. Evidence-Based Assessment & Language Intervention Strategies for Children from Economically Diverse Backgrounds
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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184. Gestalt Language Processing Intervention: What’s Evidence-Based—and What Isn’t? Part 2
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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135. Gestalt Language Processing? Do THIS to Improve Outcomes
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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183. Assessing Language from a Gestalt Language Development Paradigm: What Works, What Doesn’t, and What to Do Monday Morning
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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182. Can Gestalts in AAC Help Children Communicate Better?
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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181. Thinking About SLP Contracting? Here’s What You Need to Know First to Prevent Burnout
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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180. Let's Talk Behavior: Two Game-Changing Tools to Set the Stage for Success
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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179. Five Health Hacks to Help You Thrive!
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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178. Use the "Look at" to Develop Joint Attention
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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177. Stop Separation Anxiety Before it Starts: 4 Key Steps
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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176. Challenging Behaviors Related to Childhood Anxiety? Do THIS
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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175. Let's Play! How to Modify Your Activities for Every Child on Your Caseload
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Jun 08, 2025 |
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174. Sensory Processing Disorder: What to Do?
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May 29, 2025 |
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173. Is Intervention that Reduces Echolalia Bad Practice?
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May 22, 2025 |
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172. Do THIS with Developmental Language Disorders
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May 15, 2025 |
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171. Do Speech Sound Disorders Indicate Increased Risk for Language and Literacy Delays? Yes!
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May 08, 2025 |
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170. Ask These 5 Questions to Select Powerful Speech Targets
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May 01, 2025 |
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169. How to Make Speech Therapy Easy with "R"
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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168. Needle-Moving Activities That Target Five Pivotal Domains for School Age Kiddos
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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167. The ABC's to Improve Autistic Speech Development
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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166. Pay Attention to This When it Comes to Movement Activities
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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165. 5 Success Strategies to Support Autism
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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164. Try This 4-Step Process to Improve Executive Function Today
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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163. Stop Doing Speech Therapy at the Word, Phrase, and Sentence Level
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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162. 5 Therapy Takeaways From the Telepathy Tapes Podcast
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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161. Tap That! Do THIS to De-Stress
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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160. 3 Step to Become a Culturally Competent SLP
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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159. What NOT to Do: Five Common Mistakes with High-Tech AAC + Autism
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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158. Autism & AAC: Putting the Latest Research into Practice
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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157. Help! Try These 3 Strategies with Dysregulated Children
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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156. Do THIS to Monitor Your Clients' Progress in Speech Therapy
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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155. How SLPs Can Go Against the Grain Without Getting Splinters
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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154. Five Favorite Self-Care Splurges You Need to Try!
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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153. Strategies to Support Students Who Stutter Over the Holidays
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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152. Selective Mutism: 8 Strategies that Work in the Classroom
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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151. Focus on these 5 Strategies to Establish Rapport for Children with Sensitive Temperaments
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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150. TEN Must-Learn Gestalts for Gestalt Language Processors
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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149. Do THIS to Create Massive Change When Treating Speech Sound Disorders
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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148. If You're Not Doing THIS, You're Not Improving Language Comprehension
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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147. Why 'Mama' Isn't a First Word for Many with Autism?
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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146. 10 Ways to Make Your Activities Work for Younger and Older Children
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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145. 3 Must Know Strategies to Improve Developmental Language Disorder
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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144. Why Take Halloween Seriously?
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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143. An Innovative, Holistic Approach to Supporting Children with Autism
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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142. How to Help Gestalt Language Processors Talk
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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141. Is it 'Just Speech?' Pay Attention to These Six Speech Errors
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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140. 3 Ways to Get Out of the Cause-Effect Toy Rut
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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139. Five Strategies that Make Collaborative Groups Easy
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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138. The First Speech Therapy Sessions-What to Do?
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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137. Three Ways to Make Speech Home Practice Easy, Engaging & Effective
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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136. Try THIS to Make High-Tech AAC Easy
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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145. Gestalt Language Processing II: Do THIS to Optimize Gains
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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134. Gestalt Language Processing: Pay Attention to THIS When Language Sampling
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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133. Synesthesia & Autism-What You Need to Know
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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132. How to Add Music to Your Sessions to Accelerate Gains Today
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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131. How Long? How Often? How to Schedule Your Therapy Sessions to Maximize Gains
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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130. Try M.O.R.E. with Photos to Improve Conversational Communication Skills
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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129. Why UDLs Are a MUST for SLPs
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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128. Two Reasons SLPs Are Experiencing Burnout
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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127. Are You Making Their Behavior Worse?
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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126. Five Research-Based ADHD Superpowers
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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125. What ADD Non-Medication Options Work?
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May 30, 2024 |
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124. Three Reasons You're Not Seeing Speech Gains
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May 23, 2024 |
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123. Should You Provide AAC Intervention Through Telepractice?
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May 16, 2024 |
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122. Eight Barriers That Get in the Way of You Growing
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May 09, 2024 |
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121. Phone Home: How to Make Language Sampling Super Easy
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May 02, 2024 |
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120. Is Your Childhood Apraxia of Speech Practice Just Treating the Mouth?
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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119. Autism: 6 MOVES Away from the Table to Improve Communication Skills
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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118. Boosting Children With Autism's Mental Health: 3 Proven Tips!
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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117. Are You Thinking Twice When Picking a Speech Test?
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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116. The Greatest Advocate for Neurodiversity? Intervention
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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115. Do You Have This Tool In Your Intervention Toolbox?
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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114. The Most Powerful Cueing Strategy Period
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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113. Are You Legal in Your AAC Practice?
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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112. Ten What NOT to Dos with Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC)
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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111. Take Self-Care Seriously with Supplements
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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110. Six Simple Strategies for Success for Elementary Aged Students
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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109. Four Ways to Get Out of the February Funk
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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108. Why Task-Oriented Movement Activities Are A MUST for Your Speech Therapy
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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107. 3 Ways to Make Speech Home Practice Easy, Engaging, and Effective
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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106. How to Engage the Hard to Engage
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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105. Three Ways to Make R Easy
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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104. Goals that Got to Go-What Not to Do
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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103. Do These Four Things to Write Better Goals in 2024
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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102. They Can Repeat It. Should You Qualify Them?
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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101. Is It Better to Change Your Speech Targets or Keep Them the Same?
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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100. How to Easily & Effectively Language Sample Children with Autism
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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99. Six Simple Comfort Food Swaps to Get You Through the Holiday Season
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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98. Why You Should Take a Stance Against Equality in Favor of Equity
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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97. Looking for a Super Simple Free Literacy Screener? Check Out This One
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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96. Don't Forget to Treat the Speech Motor Disorder in Autism Intervention
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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95. How Many Letters Should Preschoolers Know? Is 10 Enough?
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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94. Why "CORE" Is Not The Four Letter Word It's Made Out to Be
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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93. What NOT to Do with Highly Anxious Children: Learn From My Mistakes
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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92. Avoid This Common Mistake in Autism Intervention
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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91. How Often Should You Change Your Speech Targets?
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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90. Is Your Intervention Working? Track This Data-Not That
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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89. Pick This Speech Target-Not That One!
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Episode 88. Why Care About SEL and How to Put It Into Your Practice Today
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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87. Be Sure to Put It In Print!
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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86. Action! Three Easy Steps to Bring Narratives to Life with Movement
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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85. Target These Three Literacy Skills Early On for Optimal Gains in Reading Development
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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84. Are eBooks a Yay or a Nay?
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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83. Six Strategies That Improve Attention
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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82. Three Executive Function Core Literacy Skills That We Rarely Talk About
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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81. Fast, Fab, and Free Literacy Assessments for Four-Year-Olds
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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80. Five Pillars to Success in Your Therapy Sessions
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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79. Moving Beyond Behavior in Therapy
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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78. Four Ways to Use Video to Up-Level Your Practice
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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77. Three Takeaways from Gestalt Language Development to Put Into Practice Today
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Jun 25, 2023 |
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76. 10 Common Reasons That Children With Autism's FIrst Words Are Rarely Heard
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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75. Is Developmentally "Appropriate" Double Speak for "Ableism"?
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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74. Checking In: How Are You Doing Really?
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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73. Cognitive Diversity in Autism Intervention: Think Differently
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May 25, 2023 |
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72. Autism Is Not Always Lifelong: 5 Lessons Every SLP Must Know
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May 18, 2023 |
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71. Reality TV Lessons Every SLP Should Steal: 4 Game-Changing Principles for Intervention
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May 11, 2023 |
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70. Autism & Attention: The #1 Skill Every SLP Must Build
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May 03, 2023 |
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69. Five Sensory Therapy Hacks Every Busy SLP Needs
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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68. Gestalt Language Development & Autism: Why Longer Utterances Work
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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67. AAC & Autism: How Sentence Strips + iPads Improve Speech Outcomes
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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66. Autism & First Words: 3 SLP Mistakes to Avoid
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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65. From Sensory to Task-Oriented: Rethinking Movement Activities in Autism Speech Therapy
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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64. Autism & Motor Speech Disorders: Five Reasons SLPs Must Rethink Speech Development
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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63. Cutting Through Sensory Overload: 5 Attention-Building Tips for Autism
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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62. Breaking Through Sensory Distraction in Autism: Practical Tips for SLPs
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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61. Multimodal Cueing in Speech Therapy: The Most-to-Least Strategy That Transforms Outcomes
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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60. Why Verbal Cues Hold Children Back in Speech Therapy (and What to Do Instead)
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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59. Challenge Creates Change: Why Complex Speech Targets Lead to Faster Progress
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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58. Should Preschool SLPs Teach Letters? Rethinking Early Literacy, and Language Development
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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57. Three Speech Sound Disorder Myths Every SLP Should Rethink (Right Now)
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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56. Executive Function in Speech Therapy: 4 Proven Strategies for Success
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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55. Autism A–Z: 20 Evidence-Based Strategies (The Alphabet Soup Approach) for SLPs
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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54. Manifestation for SLPs: 3 Visualization Strategies to Overcome Overwhelm and Find Success
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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53. Dialogic Reading Strategies Every SLP Needs: How to Boost Literacy & Engagement
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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52. Language Goals Are 80% of Your Outcomes (Stop Wasting Time on Prepositions)
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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51. Why Complex Goals Drive Bigger Gains in Speech, Language, and Literacy
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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50. Boosting Narratives in Developmental Language Delay: My #1 Strategy That Works
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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49. Developmental Language Delay: Why Verbal Working Memory Matters More Than Grammar at Age 3
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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48. Should You Assess Grammatical Morphemes at Age 3? The Evidence Says No.
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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47. Five Proven Strategies to Boost Speech Development in Autism
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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46. Speech Perception & 12 Risk Factors for Literacy: A Simple SLP Framework
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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45. Five Literacy Skills Impacted by Childhood Apraxia of Speech (and How SLPs Can Intervene Early)
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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44. Emotionally Based vs Evidence-Based Practice: 6 Myths SLPs Must Stop Believing
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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43. Three Big AAC Mistakes SLPs Make (and What to Do Instead)
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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42. Research Your Practice: The #1 Advice That Transforms SLP Outcomes
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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41. Boosting Literacy in Preschoolers with Autism: 5 Proven Strategies for SLPs
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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40. Principles of Motor Learning in Speech Therapy: What's Evidence-Based and What Isn't?
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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39. Make the R Sound Easy: Proven Techniques for SLPs
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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38. S-Blend Secrets: The Science of Selecting the Most Powerful Targets
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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37. From Locked-In to Breakthrough: Task-Oriented Movement for Autism Therapy
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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35. Three Powerful Ways Google Slides Transform Speech-Language Therapy
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Sep 11, 2022 |
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36. Five Easy Speech Therapy Strategies That Save Time & Boost Student Progress
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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34. Tech Done Right: Using Digital Tools to Boost Language, Literacy, and Storytelling in Speech Therapy
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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33. Rewiring the Cerebellum: Why Task-Oriented Movement Changes Everything in Speech Therapy
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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32. Task-Oriented Movement: The Key to Building Executive Function in Preschool Speech Therapy
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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31. Why Movement Is the Missing Link in Speech Therapy: An Occupational Therapist's Core, Gross, Fine Motor & Visual Motor Secrets (with Joe Evans, OT)
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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30. The Most Important Goal in Speech Therapy: Developing an Internal Locus of Control
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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29. How to Build Positive Parent Relationships from the Start
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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28. Blunt the Blood Sugar Spikes with Supplements, Drinks & Foods
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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27. Vegan Diet + ADD? A Parent's POV
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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26. How to Develop Secure Attachments with Preschoolers
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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25. 'Having a Ball' in Speech Therapy: Game Changing Activities
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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24. Is There ANY Research Against the Complexity Approach?
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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23. The Do's and Don'ts of DLD
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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22. DLD: Numbers that Will Keep You Up At Night
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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21. Six Ways LAMP is Shedding Light on AAC
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May 26, 2022 |
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20. PECS: Take the Good & the Bad
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May 19, 2022 |
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19. Be Present When You're Here, There, Everywhere
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May 12, 2022 |
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18. Got Google Slides? 3 Reasons They Belong in Speech Therapy
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May 05, 2022 |
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17. To 'Splash' or 'Spray'? That is the Question
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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16. Are Single Word Speech Sound Tests a 'Yay' or a 'Nay'?
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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15. 1,2,3 Musts to Learn to Read
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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14. Five Speech Errors That Matter: Language and Literacy Delays?
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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13. My 5 Favorite Focus Enhancing Supplements
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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12. Do L-Blends Make for Good Speech Treatment Targets? MEH
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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11. #1 Mistake in Treating Children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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10. Storytelling Secrets that Matter Part 2: The Four Highly Effective P’s
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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9. Storytelling Secrets that Matter: The Four Highly Effective E’s
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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8. A Top Secret Productivity Hack
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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7. Six Superpowers of the ADHD SLP
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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6. Language Sampling Gestalt to Generative Speech for Preschoolers with ASD
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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5. Five Hacks for Language Sampling Preschoolers with ASD
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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4. Gestalt Language and Why It's So Good
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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3. Less Words, More Action: Let's Talk Temporal Cueing!
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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2. COVID-Proof Your Therapy Gains
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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1. What is the Most Important Pivotal Skill to Target for Preschoolers with ASD?
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Jan 01, 2022 |