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Creating assets and leverage to amplify the impact of your services
When people talk about assets, they’re often thinking about personal finance. They’re talking about things like real estate, index funds, crypto and other things aimed...
Therapists are leaders in disguise
One of the most common questions I get is “What am I supposed to do in therapy with students/clients?” Many of my readers want to know what strategies and techniques t...
Why "work-life balance" is unattainable (and what to do instead)
Therapists and teachers (and anyone else in a “helping people” profession) always have to take care of OTHER people…which is hard to do if you’re burnt out all the tim...
DLD, CAPD, dyslexia, hyperlexia and supporting literacy
Therapists and educators supporting K-12 literacy have a lot of diagnoses and labels to navigate, and some of them are controversial. In some debates, the diagnosis i...
How to make syntax instruction useful for the real world
Schools often get criticized for not teaching enough “real world” skills to kids, and there’s a lot of truth to that statement. Most of the therapists I work with are...
What’s really causing “topic maintenance” issues?
Topic maintenance is a skill I’ve seen on many language therapy IEPs in the category of “pragmatic language”, but often it’s a surface-level symptom of something else....
Why I don't use language therapy goal banks
I get a lot of questions about how to write language therapy goals… I ALSO get a lot of questions about whether I offer goal banks in any of my courses. I do offer a...
Defining Vocabulary: It's more complicated than you think
When people ask me where they should start in language therapy, I usually say they should start by building vocabulary. That usually results in a couple raised eyebro...
Language therapy: Managing info overload and misinformation
Back when I first started practicing, I found language therapy to be super overwhelming. There were so many peer-reviewed articles, books, and seminars, and it was ha...
Rerelease: Burnout, boundaries, and systems
In episode 65, I take a break from the regular content to talk about burnout and boundaries; and specifically how I use systems to help me set healthy boundaries and r...
Are kids ready to work on complex sentences in early elementary school?
In episode 64, I share a Q & A from the Language Therapy Advance Foundations members’ group about working on complex sentences with students in early elementary school...
Navigating dyslexia and working memory goals
In episode 63, I share a Q & A from the Language Therapy Advance Foundations members’ group about dyslexia diagnosis and treatment, as well as working memory goals. I...
Childhood anxiety and mental health (with Dr. Ambroes Pass-Turner)
There’s been an increase in depression and anxiety in kids in recent years, which is why I wanted to have an expert on the show who’s had years of experience working w...
Building word-retrieval and independent word learning in K-12 kids
I get a ton of questions about how to support kids who have weak word-retrieval, so I wanted to share a powerful technique you can use to address this. When kids have...
Traveling with autistic kids (with Dawn Barclay)
When it comes to supporting autistic kids, I’ve come across a lot of resources that help with the home and school environments. But many families aren’t sure how to n...
ADHD coaching for young adults (with Lori Melnitsky)
When it comes to working on executive functioning and “social skills”, one of the biggest complaints I hear from therapists is that their clients don’t generalize. T...
How to build social problem-solving skills (without being ableist)
How do you know if an intervention is neurodiversity affirming and evidence-based? Are child-led interventions actually in a child’s best interest? What’s the right ...
Demystifying the “specific learning disability” (with Jil Stauter)
Navigating the special education eligibility process is confusing for all parties involved (parents, professionals, etc.). That’s why I wanted to get some insight fr...
What to do when your child is stuttering (with Lauren Haines)
In this episode, I talk with Lauren Haines from Busy Bee Speech about childhood stuttering. Many people don’t realize this, but there are a TON of misconceptions in th...
Life after high school: Are your kids ready? (with Kim Duckworth)
In this episode, I sit down with college admissions coach Kim Duckworth from Bridge Education Center to talk about helping kids expand their options after high school....
Collaboration, literacy, and surviving due process (with Joann Briggs)
In this episode of Are they 18 yet?™, I talk with my friend and former colleague, Joann Briggs. Joann was a special education teacher in the public school systems for ...
Making sense of developmental milestones
Recently, the Center for Disease control updated the early developmental milestones, and there's been a lot of debate about what this means. In a lot of my SLP profes...
Scaffolding: What it is and how to use it to help kids be more resilient (with Brittany Bohach)
We don’t want to be “helicopter parents” who coddle our kids…but we don’t want to be so militant that we traumatize them either. When it comes getting kids to do esse...
Interpreting “challenging behaviors” and meltdowns (with Brittany Bohach)
When kids show negative behaviors, it’s often because they’re struggling to do what they’re being asked to do. This unfortunately happens a lot in school settings. Yo...
Natural treatments and ADHD: Spotting the fallacy
Are "natural" remedies really better when it comes to ADHD, autism, and related conditions? What does it mean to use a "natural" treatment or intervention? In this e...
The ins and outs of language screening (for school-age kids)
Am I choosing the right language screening tool? How do I know when a child should be screened and evaluated? I get these questions a lot. That's why in this episode,...
Are we "following the research" in education?
Does class size matter? Is homework effective? What's the best way to help kids learn to read? Why do some teachers (and schools) succeed while others fail? Dr. John...
How to support language processing and comprehension in school-age kids (part 2)
In this episode, I continue the discussion about language processing and how to support it. I continue the discussion of difficult sentence types, and dive in to one v...
How to support language processing and comprehension in school-age kids (part 1)
Language skills are essential to a child's ability to succeed in school and life. But when processing language is a struggle there can be a global impact across a chil...
Building vocabulary skills in Kindergarten through high school
Vocabulary growth is one of the biggest predictors of language growth and academic success. That's why in this episode, I talk about what speech pathologists, parents...
