Making the life of a busy school SLP easier and a bit more beautiful everyday!
Are you starting out in your school career, or just want to try something different during the first week of speech-language therapy? Here’s what my first week of therapy in the elementary school looks like. My personal goals are pretty simple for the first week. My primary purpose is to get to know my students and help them to be…
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As school based SLPs, many of us are required to write a professional goal for ourselves each year. In my district under the Danielson model, we call it an “Individual Growth Plan,” while others may call it “Professional Development Goals,” “Professional Goal Setting,” “Professional Learning Plan,” or something similar. Now, as SLPs, we write goals for our students all the…
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I must admit, I am not much of a craft person when it comes to therapy! However, every couple of months, I like to pull out an quick and easy craft for my students to do. Most of my students (and ok, myself!) are dreaming of summer with less than four weeks left in our school year. I decided we…
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Have you ever just had one of those random ideas in the middle of a session that turn out to be a great teaching moment? This week, I was working with one of my artic students on a new sound (/ch). I introduced it in our session by talking about the placement, and what we were going to need to…
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