In case you missed this a few weeks back.... Ther

In case you missed this a few weeks back....

There is a new update to the Oral Motor Assessment Cards 🤗

As you guys know, I mostly work with the 3-7year old population. And if you work with the same ages, then you’d know that you need a few tricks up your sleeve for getting things done ✅

You’ll find updated pictures, record form, and a few new cards! Just head back to TpT, for a free re-download!

#adventuresinspeechpathology #preschoolslp #speechsounddisorders #speechdelay #speechtherapyfun #slp #slpgradstudent #slp2be

Seeing as we’re halfway through the year and it’s been a while... I thought I’d share my back story 🤗

It’s funny how things turn out!!

👉🏻I started out studying Psychology
👉🏻Changed degrees to Speech and Hearing Sciences after a year
👉🏻Completed a one year University exchange in Manchester, England
👉🏻 Finished my undergraduate degree and Masters of SLP at Macquarie University, Sydney.
👉🏻Went backpacking through Europe and Asia for a year.
👉🏻Accepted my 1st job in a place I’d never heard of (Emerald, QLD) with BushKids.
👉🏻Moved to Samoa as an SLP on a one year assignment with the Aus government. Met my future husband there!
👉🏻Did a 3 month locum at a non-profit (Royal Far West).
👉🏻After 6 months, LOTS of paperwork and money, finally got my USA work visa and moved to Washington State.
👉🏻Worked in an elementary school and added a middle school in my second year
👉🏻Started my blog as I didn’t know many people and was bored!
👉🏻Moved back to Australia (married in Samoa), took down my blog, started and quit a private practice job after 6 weeks. It was NOT for me.
👉🏻Worked at another private practice for close to 5 years and started my TpT store when I had my first baby.
👉🏻Left my private practice job when I had my second baby because I really wanted to work with a specific caseload.
👉🏻Started working more on speech materials for TpT while being a mum.
👉🏻Pitched myself to a big allied health centre and started 1 day a week seeing kids for “speech and social”
👉🏻Now I work 2 days private, focussing only on SSDs, and 3 days on Adventures in Speech Pathology.
👉🏻As of this year, my husband, Paul also works for AISP part-time!

Phew!!! That was a long timeline 😂😂😂 Ask me a question about anything that interests you below! #speechlife #adventuresinspeechpathology

If you are stuck with a child... take a look at th

If you are stuck with a child... take a look at the cues that you are using to facilitate the sound!

Picture cues... they’re not effective for some kids. So stop holding up cards if they’re not working.

Describing what to do with your tongue can be abstract for some kids.

So before you think “the child isn’t getting it”, maybe it’s YOU 😊 who’s not getting it!

Think gestures, metaphors and pragmatic cues if you don’t already. Orthographic cues can be great for school-aged kids! Try choosing words that have facilitating phonetics contexts, or use successive shaping.

Basically... put different types of cues in your bag of tricks vs. only using two or three different ones!

(FYI: I love my gestures and metaphors when I teach speech, what are your fave cues).

#speechdelay #speechdelaykids #slpeeps #adventuresinspeechpathology #slp2be
#Speechtherapy #preschoolslp #schoolslp

One of the most asked questions that I used to get

THERAPY TIP 👇🏻 I try to incorporate some fo

THERAPY TIP 👇🏻

I try to incorporate some form of naturalistic play in my session to see whether our hard work is carrying over to untrained speech targets.

I see a lot of fronters, and I’ve got a little list of /k/ and /g/ words in my head that we use in play:

1. Can (can I have...)
2. Go (my go - your go)
3. Get (get the...)
4. Got (I got.. you got...)
5. Could (could you...)

and if we playing with vehicles of some sort, I add in: car, key, truck, green, come, cross, walk etc.

#adventuresinspeechpathology #speech #speechdelay #speechcarryover #slpeeps #speechtherapy #speechpathology

Ch Sound Therapy. Let’s chat about the “hierar

Ch Sound Therapy. Let’s chat about the “hierarchy”.

I don’t stick at one level until the child is 80% accurate BEFORE I move on to the “next level”.

I like to be flexible and move through practice where the child is still achieving success, but it challenges them!

After this snippet, we were able to do some shot 2-3 word phrases with the word “choose” 🙌🏻

Double tap if you want to see more therapy videos, and please ask me a question if you have one 👇🏻

You guys know I mean business when I pull the abac

You guys know I mean business when I pull the abacus out 🧮👏

I also mean serious cueing business when I grab these animal sound cues. They’re BIG! They’re on STICKS, and I can hold them up to my face which I love!

Seriously, my best advice is to put things on sticks!!!! My two faves in this collection are the bunny teeth (f) and the lifting elephant sound (l).

#speechtherapyfun #speechsounddisorders #slpeeps #speechlanguagetherapy #Adventuresinspeechpathology

This clicked for one of my students this week! If

This clicked for one of my students this week!

If you’ve been following me for a while, you know that I love the metaphor of “sound buddies” to teach about clusters, and use when the child has cluster reduction.

I love the power of this cue though... that I don’t even have to model the word, but the child knew EXACTLY how to self correct (nail) and use their s cluster (snail) 👏👏

#speechtherapist #speechdelay #speechdevelopment #slp #slpeeps #adventuresinspeechpathology #articulation #phonology #speechdelaykids

Oh fronting.... you are my phonology arch nemesis

Oh fronting.... you are my phonology arch nemesis 😫😂

Maybe one day I’ll just embrace those front and back sounds, but after practicing for 14 years, this is STILL the pattern that I find most stubborn.

What’s yours??

#articulation #speechtherapy #slp #speechsounddisorders #speechdelay #speechdevelopment #speechdelaykids

H Insertion Trick for /s/. Sometimes it’s nice t

H Insertion Trick for /s/. Sometimes it’s nice to skip the cards and practice words that have real life meaning! So I’m sipping today 🥤

I’m using the h insertion trick to target /s/ today.

Make sure to model the /s/ joining onto the ‘h’ word so that there isn’t a gap, and don’t forget to send functional words (“sit” was another word we used) for home practice!

#Adventuresinspeechpathology #Speechsounddisorders #articulation #articulationtherapy #schoolslp #privatepracticeslp

In case you missed this a few weeks back.... Ther

In case you missed this a few weeks back....

There is a new update to the Oral Motor Assessment Cards 🤗

As you guys know, I mostly work with the 3-7year old population. And if you work with the same ages, then you’d know that you need a few tricks up your sleeve for getting things done ✅

You’ll find updated pictures, record form, and a few new cards! Just head back to TpT, for a free re-download!

#adventuresinspeechpathology #preschoolslp #speechsounddisorders #speechdelay #speechtherapyfun #slp #slpgradstudent #slp2be

Seeing as we’re halfway through the year and it’s been a while... I thought I’d share my back story 🤗

It’s funny how things turn out!!

👉🏻I started out studying Psychology
👉🏻Changed degrees to Speech and Hearing Sciences after a year
👉🏻Completed a one year University exchange in Manchester, England
👉🏻 Finished my undergraduate degree and Masters of SLP at Macquarie University, Sydney.
👉🏻Went backpacking through Europe and Asia for a year.
👉🏻Accepted my 1st job in a place I’d never heard of (Emerald, QLD) with BushKids.
👉🏻Moved to Samoa as an SLP on a one year assignment with the Aus government. Met my future husband there!
👉🏻Did a 3 month locum at a non-profit (Royal Far West).
👉🏻After 6 months, LOTS of paperwork and money, finally got my USA work visa and moved to Washington State.
👉🏻Worked in an elementary school and added a middle school in my second year
👉🏻Started my blog as I didn’t know many people and was bored!
👉🏻Moved back to Australia (married in Samoa), took down my blog, started and quit a private practice job after 6 weeks. It was NOT for me.
👉🏻Worked at another private practice for close to 5 years and started my TpT store when I had my first baby.
👉🏻Left my private practice job when I had my second baby because I really wanted to work with a specific caseload.
👉🏻Started working more on speech materials for TpT while being a mum.
👉🏻Pitched myself to a big allied health centre and started 1 day a week seeing kids for “speech and social”
👉🏻Now I work 2 days private, focussing only on SSDs, and 3 days on Adventures in Speech Pathology.
👉🏻As of this year, my husband, Paul also works for AISP part-time!

Phew!!! That was a long timeline 😂😂😂 Ask me a question about anything that interests you below! #speechlife #adventuresinspeechpathology

If you are stuck with a child... take a look at th

If you are stuck with a child... take a look at the cues that you are using to facilitate the sound!

Picture cues... they’re not effective for some kids. So stop holding up cards if they’re not working.

Describing what to do with your tongue can be abstract for some kids.

So before you think “the child isn’t getting it”, maybe it’s YOU 😊 who’s not getting it!

Think gestures, metaphors and pragmatic cues if you don’t already. Orthographic cues can be great for school-aged kids! Try choosing words that have facilitating phonetics contexts, or use successive shaping.

Basically... put different types of cues in your bag of tricks vs. only using two or three different ones!

(FYI: I love my gestures and metaphors when I teach speech, what are your fave cues).

#speechdelay #speechdelaykids #slpeeps #adventuresinspeechpathology #slp2be
#Speechtherapy #preschoolslp #schoolslp

One of the most asked questions that I used to get

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