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A Naughty Pop

A naughtypop! The other day one of my kindergarten teachers wanted me to screen one of her students.  When I came in the classroom to screen the potentially speech impaired little guy, she told me to...

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You need to say STICK!

I was thinking back the other day about my career as an SLP and how time flies.   This is my 5th year out in the field and I still feel like I just graduated with my master’s degree.  When I was...

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Halloween, Michael Jackson & a monarch butterfly

A couple of days before Halloween, I saw this post in my news feed from many of the speech therapy pages “In a few days, a lot of creatures will visit your door.  Be open minded.  The child who is...

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You haven’t found your dream job yet!?

When I was in my last semester in the graduate program and out doing my clinical fieldwork internships, we had to take a course once a week to discuss our experiences in our job sites.  It was a great...

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The Everybody Has Something Approach

  Today, I bring you a great message from an amazing colleague of mine who is an RSP teacher at one of my schools.  She empowers her students by equipping them with the academic tools they need to...

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Take the TPT Plunge Linky Party!

I remember when I was first starting out after grad school at two elementary schools and I was stuck in these little boxed sized rooms with minimal therapy resources.  I had started in January, so not...

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Speech Therapy Materials Tracking Sheet FREEBIE!

Are you a super helpful, giving SLP? Do you like to share your materials with families, speech peeps and teachers?  Do you rack your brain at the end of the year trying to remember where all YOUR...

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10 Songs SLP’s should blast in the car on the first day back to work!

After a long, relaxing summer break, it is hard for this SLP to get back into the routine of waking up early, doing assessments, paperwork and therapy.  Although I LOVE my job, there is a part of me...

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5 Top Secret Blogger Tips & Tricks!

Most of my friends and SLP “peeps” usually ask me “how do you get it all done?” “When do you find the time with work and taking care of kids?” or “Do you ever sleep?”  Blogging is a time consuming...

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Monday’s Motto: Look like a teacher, think like a TEENAGER

For all of you that don’t know, I am back hanging with the middle school crowd this year.  A small portion of my caseload is working with elementary students, but the majority of my time is spent with...

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Reflections from #ASHA14

#ASHA 2014 was a blast! This was my second ASHA and it has been the best so far!  I went to ASHA to help run #booth1359 and get in some needed continuing education hours.  For the past two years, I...

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SLP Self Reflection Forms

Self reflection is one of the HARDEST things for me to do (biggest self critic), yet when I let myself be honest about a situation, I am able to take ownership of my weaknesses, let go of what I can’t...

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Chicken Soup for the SLP Soul Blog Hop

Reading stories from other SLP’s in the field has always been inspirational and kept me proud to be an SLP.  I love “swapping” stories from the trenches.  It helps me remember that I am not alone...

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A Quick Tip From The Dabbling Speechie: An Easy Way To Take Data With Your...

I love doing whole group lessons with my language kiddos you can cover a lot of language skills.  Lately, I have been using non-fiction text and articles to target vocabulary, inferencing, grammar,...

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Monday’s Motto: Let the rain come down

It’s been a while since I shared a Monday’s Motto. To be frank, Mondays are rough for me.  I never like getting up on Mondays because it means another long week.   To fight the manic monday syndrome...

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Never Gonna Let You Down: 5 Ways to Build your students UP!

I have been jammin’ to Colbie Caillat’s new album Gypsy Heart and it has some really awesome songs that have spoken to my heart lately. Her latest song “Never Gonna Let You Down” has been a great...

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Monday’s Motto: It’s all about the LITTLE humans

My Monday’s Motto is all about those “Little Humans” we serve day in and day out (yes, middle school and high school students are still little humans). A few weeks ago, my charter elementary site had...

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Things you can do during better speech and hearing month

Better Speech & Hearing Month is in May!  It’s always fun to draw more awareness to our field and let people know a little bit more about we do every day!  I gathered up some ideas you can share...

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SLP Must Haves: 10 songs to celebrate the end of the school year

The last day of school is right around the corner for me!  Students get out May 29th, but I have to work another week because SLP’s in my district have a longer calendar year.  I will be in peace to...

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Monday’s Motto- When I am overwhelmed

I am back with a new Monday’s Motto that will hopefully help ya get through the week.  To be frank, I am overwhelmed. Transition knocked on my door yet again, and I moved from the middle school...

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