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The Hidden Costs of Contract Services for SLPs

March 15, 2013
School administrators may need to secure private contract speech therapists to ensure adequate staffing for buildings. These services can have costs...

Supporting Memory skills

March 6, 2013
Over the last several months, we have discussed the importance of games for preschoolers in developing the essential skills of executive function,...

Tips for Groups with Varied Goals

February 26, 2013
There are times when our groupings of students seem ideal. The students involved may all be from the same class or grade, their temperament and...

Incorporating work on ‘attention’ into your therapy

February 26, 2013
Last month, we posted on the importance of games for preschoolers in developing the essential skills of executive function, attention, memory, and...

Objectives of Direct Service in the Schools

February 14, 2013
The job of a speech-language pathologist in the schools is not to "cure" speech and language disorders. This White Paper will outline the objectives...

What’s in a plan?

December 9, 2012
This is part of a continuing series of posts on therapy ideas to support assistants (SLPAs) and paraprofessionals in the schools in their work with...

Books for Articulation Therapy

November 3, 2012
Do you use children’s literature, textbooks, or picture books to address language goals? Vocabulary, sequencing, descriptive language, organization,...

Guidelines for an Effective Weekly Meeting Routine

October 4, 2012
You should have regularly scheduled time with your supervising SLP, but we all want to be sure that meeting time is used wisely and efficiently so we...

Routines to support therapy

October 4, 2012
Fall is a fresh start - a chance to start clean - and many of us take that opportunity to reorganize or implement new routines. Routine is so...

Getting the message out

May 2, 2012
Even though we’re experts in communication, it can be difficult to think of new ways to communicate our message to already overloaded teachers, busy...