Welcome to day 7 of this exciting blogiversary celebration! Speechy Musings has been around for a whole year! If you want to see the lineup of giveaways for the blogiversary, check out the post here! There will be 10 days of giveaways so make sure to check back often so you don’t miss anything!

This next giveaway is another fun one that is perfect for a gift for coworkers, friends, supervisors, and other SLPs you know! Or yourself! It’s small enough (3 inches by 6 inches) so it would be perfect to put on your desk if you got a stand for it! Check it out:

It comes packages in a simple plastic covering, which is good so it doesn’t get scratched or anything!

The back of the plaque looks like this:

Makes it really easy to hang up!

At $10, you cannot beat this as an inexpensive way to celebrate speech-language pathology! Check it out in DPPhotography’s Etsy Store here or the entire store here. The store is filled with these plaques for anybody and everybody in your life!

DPPhotography has offered to give one of these amazing SLP plaques away to one Speechy Musings so enter the Rafflecopter below:

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Welcome to day 6 of this fun blogiversary celebration! Speechy Musings has been around for a whole year! If you want to see the lineup of giveaways for the blogiversary, check out the post here! There will be 10 days of giveaways so make sure to check back often so you don’t miss anything!

I’m so excited to share my thoughts on the Evidence-Based Practice Quick Reference Binder by Carissa at Home Sweet Speech Room! We decided to do a little material swap because it’s her blogiversary too! So many bloggers must have started in November/December! Check out her post about my Articulation by Theme product here.

We are co-hosting a giveaway for a bundle of both products at the end of the post so keep reading! One lucky reader will win both products!!

The Evidence-Based Practice Quick Reference Binder (EBP Binder for short) is a wonderful resource that I think could benefit so many SLPs who want to implement therapy that will be evidence-based and effective, but don’t have time to read 100 articles to do so!! Carissa has done all of that work for you. I can’t imagine how long it took to create this binder.

So what exactly is in this binder?

Good question. Carissa has compiled tables of EBP articles organized by topic! See below for some example pages:

Additionally, she has included app lists for each topic, and blank app lists so you can continue to add your favorites:

For each topic, she has compiled really handy reference pages containing some of the most important information she found on each topic:

You can see the whole table of contents below:

Overall, I really love this product! There is a reason I printed the entire thing!! I love reading through it when I’m watching TV. It keeps me thinking in an evidence-based way when planning my sessions.

There is a reason this is her number 1 best-selling item! For more information, check out her TpT product post here OR read her blog post, OR watch a video where she takes you on a tour of the product!

Enter the Rafflecopter below to win a copy of her Evidence-Based Practice Quick Reference Binder and my Articulation by Theme Resource!!

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Welcome to day 5 of this wonderful blogiversary celebration! Speechy Musings has been around for a whole year! If you want to see the lineup of giveaways for the blogiversary, check out the post here! There will be 10 days of giveaways so make sure to check back often so you don’t miss anything!

I have a feeling this giveaway will be a hit with all of you wonderful readers. It’s for the Book of Elicitation Techniques by The Entire World of R Series and Say It Right.

This is an awesome book, and filled with information that is stuff I wish they taught you in school!

Before I begin my review, please head on over to the Say It Right site here and read the information they provide on the book. They also show example pages!!

My basic overview (which is nothing compared to the info they provide on their site) is that this book provides information and tips on eliciting /r/. It’s incredibly useful to read and really just makes sense. It includes really useful pages such as probe lists, worksheets, and data sheets.

It provides information on a huge variety of techniques which I love because if one technique doesn’t work for one client, you have many more to choose from.

Let me just try and explain how much information is included in this book. The book covers: all about /r/, evaluation (screenings, probes, checklists), other products, treatment techniques (cueing, cognates, coarticulation, whisper technique, nonsense words, carry-over), elicitation techniques (for er, ar, air, ear, ire, or, prevocalic r, rl, r-blends), oral movement, data/homework, AND case studies. And  that’s not even everything!!

Below are some of the sections I’ve found particularly useful:

1) Cueing: These pages provide examples of many, many types of cueing. It’s a great reminder for me to use multiple modalities for cueing including auditory, visual, and tactile cues. This book provides examples of each of these types of cues specifically for producing /r/.

2) Coarticulation: I knew how important coarticulation can be for effective and efficient therapy but I love how this book explains it, and makes it specific to /r/.

3) Carry-Over: As any good therapy book should, this book contains a section on carry-over which I found to be really useful! This section describes Controlled Randomized Practice, which I had never heard of before but it really makes a lot of sense!

 Okay so those are three of the hundreds of amazing sections included in this book! If you need help with /r/, GET THIS BOOK.

You can see some example pages of the book below:

Again, if you are interested in this book definitely check out the Say It Right website here to read more! They describe it perfectly. Overall, I would absolutely recommend this book. It taught me so much about eliciting /r/ and will be a valuable resource to read when what I’m trying just isn’t working!!

Say It Right is wonderful, and is giving one of these books away to a lucky Speechy Musings reader! Enter the Rafflecopter below:

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Welcome to day 4 of this wonderful blogiversary celebration! Speechy Musings has been around for a whole year! If you want to see the lineup of giveaways for the blogiversary, check out the post here! There will be 10 days of giveaways so make sure to check back often so you don’t miss anything!

Okay this giveaway is really awesome! Maybe I’m weird, but I LOVE bags! This one is perfect for toting (ha!) my binders/materials to my externship. I love it!

This is how my beautiful bag came packaged. I love when sellers do this, as it makes it all just that much more exciting and special!

 I also love how small it packages up! Great for gift giving when space is an issue. And also for hoarders like me

Below are some pictures of the bag so you can see it’s approximate size!

In those pictures, it is holding 3 binders and 1 stuffed folder. I’d say that is probably the max to this bag, unless you had skinner and tall items to fit in next to the binders.

Below you can see the bag from the front:

I can assure you that the bag is quality. It has been through some torture situations at my externship including getting dragged across the floor after getting stuck under a rolly chair and getting drenched in the rain! Still looks like new!

You can see these bags in Louisiana Bling’s Etsy Store here and see her entire store here.

I should mention that the bag comes in different colors too, so see her store for options. I went with red because I love how it looks with the canvas and because red reminds me of my Wisconsin Badgers!

Louisiana Bling has graciously offered to give away one bag to a lucky Speechy Musings reader, so for your chance, enter the Rafflecopter below:

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Welcome to day 3 of this wonderful blogiversary celebration! Speechy Musings has been around for a whole year! If you want to see the lineup of giveaways for the blogiversary, check out the post here! There will be 10 days of giveaways so make sure to check back often so you don’t miss anything!

Next up is something less for your students and more for YOU! The way it should be! It’s an SLP necklace from Lauriginal Designs on Etsy. She’s from Wisconsin so she gets bonus points in my book

You can see the charms of the necklace below, but note that you can pick out any color stone you’d like, I just love pink!

Below is a picture of the necklace so you can get a feel for the size. I’ve set it next to a quarter!

And below are some additional pictures of the charms!

Personally, I really love this necklace because I don’t wear much jewelery and I definitely don’t wear big or heavy jewelry. This necklace is small and simple, and I can wear it with pretty much anything!

Isn’t it cute?! You can check out the necklace in Lauriginal Designs Etsy store here and check out her entire store here. She has so many cute things!! I love her store These necklaces would be a simple, great present for ANY SLP you know including coworkers, friends, and supervisors!!

To win a necklace of your own, enter the Rafflecopter below:

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Welcome to day 1 of this fabulous blogiversary celebration! Speechy Musings has been around for a whole year! If you want to see the lineup of giveaways for the blogiversary, check out the post here! There will be 10 days of giveaways so make sure to check back often so you don’t miss anything!

First up is a product I know you’ll love! It’s Matrix Categories by Therapics. Note, that there is some prep involved when you purchase this product (normal cutting and Velcro-ing type stuff) but the lucky winner will receive an assembled product ready for use!

The product comes with everything shown below:

The product comes with 1 storage page for all of the icons included.

I love, love, love how there are pictures of each icon beneath the Velcro as well. Makes it much easier to clean up. So easy that your students can do it for you

Additionally, as part of this product you will receive 2 pages of the matrix grids for your students to use during the activity.

To use these, simply put the black and white category card on one end and have your students fill up the row with the items in that category. I like this activity because it makes it easy to increase/decrease the difficulty. For students just beginning on category work, only pull off cards from two categories, OR do one category with a few foils! For your higher level students you could work up to separating 8 categories at once!

As some of you know, I’m doing my adult externship this semester and I’ve actually used this product with my adults! Some of them don’t really understand a “category” very well, and so much memory works involves categories, or at least being able to understand them! So I’ve loved starting with this product to teach the concept!

You can find this amazing product in Therapics Etsy store here. Check out the entire store here for TONS of other products that look amazing. She specializes in visual aids for children (hence the name Therapics) so if you have a need for anything like this, seriously go to her store!!

Enter the Rafflecopter below for a chance to win your own copy of Matrix Categories! I’ll pick one lucky winner late Wednesday night (12/04/13) so ENTER NOW!

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