One challenge that I’ve found consistently when working with students who utilize AAC is incorporating their symbols into materials. When the team, including myself, does this consistently, I’ve seen huge growth from my students. They love seeing their symbols…
This is a fabulous guest blog post by Lisa Erwin of My Speech Tools. “All they do in speech is play games.” Have you heard that comment before? Well, sometimes we watch movies too! Movie clips and short films are frequently…
This past school year I switched to working full-time for a new, wonderful district. The position they offered me was full-time in a middle school. I did not want to work in a middle school, but really wanted to…
Every SLP feels burned out, stressed out, and overworked periodically. I have been there and feel really strongly that mental health is so important, in particular for SLPs and those who work in the school system. Below are some…
I’ve switched around jobs a couple of times since graduation. I’ve worked with a variety of ages and levels, however I always seem to be targeting object function in one way or another. All of my students do better,…
I’m always on the hunt for no-prep, easy games that target a variety of skills. I feel like I come up with these games all of the time and wrote a goal to try and share more of them…
This is a fabulous guest blog post by The Whimsical Word, Inc. I have spent most of my career as a Speech-Language Pathologist in a traditional elementary school setting in Illinois. 18 years to be exact. I consider myself a…