Sometimes it helps just to map things out!! I’l

Sometimes it helps just to map things out!!

I’ll be sharing a therapy plan next week so you can see how I fill this out 👏

If you have the Minimal Pairs Handbook, don’t just skim these pages... they are there to help you think about HOW to implement your therapy approach!

#minimalpairshandbook #phonology #Adventuresinspeechpathology #slpeeps #slp2b #speechsounddisorders

Fronting Minimal Pairs. Love using Boom Cards for

Fronting Minimal Pairs. Love using Boom Cards for in-person therapy!! It just helps kids to MAKE SENSE that their words have meaning, and how important it is to use the correct sound.

This little guy was not stimulable for /k/ for the longest time... then when he learned the /k/, started using it instead of /t/!!!!

So it’s important to use those pragmatic cues!!!

#minimalpairstherapy #speechtherapy #speechsounddisorders #articulation #Adventuresinspeechpathology

Loooooooooooong sounds!!! Sometimes you need to t

Loooooooooooong sounds!!!

Sometimes you need to take time to TEACH THE RULE!

Why not use a whiteboard to make those long ‘s’ sounds great so that you child can see and hear the sound!

I use dots for stopping sounds - it shows that the airflow was stopped, vs. being a continuous line!

#adventuresinspeechpathology #speech #articulation #speechsounddisorders #preschoolslp #slp2be

Last week I sent out a newsletter saying that I wa

Last week I sent out a newsletter saying that I wasn’t coping with my SLP caseload.

What surprised me most... was how many of YOU responded, feeling exactly the same way.

My mental health is becoming increasingly important to me!! I get sometimes weekly tension headaches that last for three days. All because of stress. That is NOT GOOD!

So I’m trying to: go outside in nature more, change my self talk, remember to take my herbal supplements, AND speak up when things, like my caseload, are too much!!

Look after yourselves 😘

#Adventuresinspeechpathology #slplife

Who else needs all the cues??? I love this Elicit

Who else needs all the cues???

I love this Eliciting Sounds book by Wayne Secord, I love my animal speech sound cues, I’m a HUGE fan of gestural cues... and I don’t mind a mirror 🪞.

You know what cues I use the LEAST?

Phonetic placement cues. The mouth is so abstract! It’s hard to move your tongue to certain spots, don’t you think??

#speechtherapist #slpa #articulation #speechtherapy #articulationtherapy #Adventuresinspeechpathology #slpeeps

Prosody: working on emotion. I love hearing the ch

Prosody: working on emotion. I love hearing the change in this little one’s prosody and intonation! We used to have equal stress and sound quite flat and robotic #childhoodapraxiaofspeech

Even though we still have a lot of goals for her sounds and sequencing, integrating prosody is something we do in every session.

It’s still hard for them! But we keep working 👏

CUES: Love these @bjoremspeech Prosody Cues

#Adventuresinspeechpathology #apraxiaofspeech #slpa #slpeeps #Speechsounddisorders #speechtherapy #childhoodapraxia

You guys know I love a real life abacus for gettin

You guys know I love a real life abacus for getting more practice in speech... but the DIY ones with pipe cleaners and beads are also great!

Kids can “see and end” when they move each bead after they have said their word correctly.

And my favour things about this: it’s simple, yet engaging enough!
#adventuresinspeechpathology #preschoolslp #slpa #speech #articulation #speechtherapy

If you ever hear chirping in the background of my

If you ever hear chirping in the background of my videos... it’s this guy!

He eats off my breakfast plate, sits in the bottom of the shower, and likes to hide under my shirt and snuggle in winter.

He can also poop on command. It’s one of the things I’m most proud of 😂

#adventuresinspeechpathology

Do you use those task boxes for sorting minimal pa

Do you use those task boxes for sorting minimal pairs?

#speechtherapy #speechpathology #minimalpairs #phonology

How often do you look at your child’s speech? W

How often do you look at your child’s speech?

When my little ones have a lot of patterns, I like to reassess again after OR during a block of therapy to see if CHANGES are occurring.

After 8 sessions working on /s/ cluster reduction, I can see change in more than just a significant reduction in clusters👏

Let me tell you what you CAN’T see in this graph:

1. Even though we are still stopping, the pattern has changed. We used to say f-b, s-t etc. but now we are saying f-fb like “fbun”. Love seeing those fricatives come in. We had no fricatives or affricates before. I tried the ‘h’ insertion trick and we can eliminate that sneaky plosive PERFECTLY 👏
2. That increase in “distortion”... we are now approximating affricates instead of stopping them! YAY! I can see that he was TRYING to combine a stop+fricative. Wins!!
3. Loving that assimilation and unusual substitutions have been eliminated 💪🏻 their speech system has gone through some big change lately.

So that is therapy Block 1 completed.

Currently planning for Block 2. Curious what you would do? What approach, what targets?

GRAPHS: screen shot from @smartyears app. I love how visual the assessment information is presented ❤️

#phonology #speechtherapy #preschoolslp #articulationtherapy #slpsoninstagram #slpeeps #slpa #slpgradstudent #speechpathology

Sometimes it helps just to map things out!! I’l

Sometimes it helps just to map things out!!

I’ll be sharing a therapy plan next week so you can see how I fill this out 👏

If you have the Minimal Pairs Handbook, don’t just skim these pages... they are there to help you think about HOW to implement your therapy approach!

#minimalpairshandbook #phonology #Adventuresinspeechpathology #slpeeps #slp2b #speechsounddisorders

Fronting Minimal Pairs. Love using Boom Cards for

Fronting Minimal Pairs. Love using Boom Cards for in-person therapy!! It just helps kids to MAKE SENSE that their words have meaning, and how important it is to use the correct sound.

This little guy was not stimulable for /k/ for the longest time... then when he learned the /k/, started using it instead of /t/!!!!

So it’s important to use those pragmatic cues!!!

#minimalpairstherapy #speechtherapy #speechsounddisorders #articulation #Adventuresinspeechpathology

Loooooooooooong sounds!!! Sometimes you need to t

Loooooooooooong sounds!!!

Sometimes you need to take time to TEACH THE RULE!

Why not use a whiteboard to make those long ‘s’ sounds great so that you child can see and hear the sound!

I use dots for stopping sounds - it shows that the airflow was stopped, vs. being a continuous line!

#adventuresinspeechpathology #speech #articulation #speechsounddisorders #preschoolslp #slp2be

Last week I sent out a newsletter saying that I wa

Last week I sent out a newsletter saying that I wasn’t coping with my SLP caseload.

What surprised me most... was how many of YOU responded, feeling exactly the same way.

My mental health is becoming increasingly important to me!! I get sometimes weekly tension headaches that last for three days. All because of stress. That is NOT GOOD!

So I’m trying to: go outside in nature more, change my self talk, remember to take my herbal supplements, AND speak up when things, like my caseload, are too much!!

Look after yourselves 😘

#Adventuresinspeechpathology #slplife

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