It’s my SLP SUMMIT DAY 🥳🥳🥳 I’m not a It’s my SLP SUMMIT DAY 🥳🥳🥳

I’m not a flash sale person, but then again, it’s not every day that you get to share your passion and present to thousands of SLPs all over world 🌎 

Enjoy 20% off ALL minimal pair resources in my store for today only!!!

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Whether it’s your Thursday afternoon (Northern H Whether it’s your Thursday afternoon (Northern Hemisphere) or Friday morning (Southern Hemisphere), don’t miss my SLP Summit talk on the Minimal Pairs Approach!!

Who has signed up????

#ebpslp #adventuresinspeechpathology #slpsummit #slp
I don’t want to be REMEMBERED for my games!!! I I don’t want to be REMEMBERED for my games!!!

I want to be remembered as that lady WHO HELPED ME say my sounds correctly!!!

The older I get, the less games I play, and the more I keep my keep my kids engaged doing novel things like earning LEGO bricks 🧱 to build something while I’m chatting to Dad at the end of my session.

Are you with me?? 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

#speechtherapy #speechpathology #slp #slplife #slpsofinstagram #slp2b #speech #speechpathology #adventuresinspeechpathology
Did you know that these are the two most FREQUENTL Did you know that these are the two most FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS I get asked about minimal pairs?

So if you’ve thought these, you’re not alone!

Answer to the first question: well, there are options!!!! Which is great, right?! Options mean that you can individualize therapy for your child. I usually choose about 5, but have gone higher and less as well!

Answer to the second question: the minimal pairs stay the same! So I pick my treatment set carefully. The only reason why I might change my set is if the child isn’t generalizing and that system-wide change isn’t occurring (then I’ll add more to the treatment set).

For those who have read these pages in the Minimal Pairs Handbook, I’d love to know if the information makes sense 👇🏻

#speechtherapy #speechpathology #minimalpairshandbook #phonology #ebpslp #privatepracticeslp #preschoolslp #speechdelay #speech #speechdelaykids
I’ve decided to be a folder girl this year!!! I I’ve decided to be a folder girl this year!!!

I’ve got so many handouts, visuals, posters, and factsheets (pictured 😍), that I’m just going to get my act together and have everything in one place!

Let me know if you want me to do a video of what I come up with.

Pictured: Speech Development Fact Sheets by Age

#speechlanguagetherapy #ebpslp #speechtherapy #slp #slpsofinstagram #slporganization #speechdelay #speechdevelopment #speech
One of the questions I get asked is: what activiti One of the questions I get asked is: what activities do you use for minimal pairs?

A: the same that I use for all my other kids! The only difference is my TEACHING and FEEDBACK!!

I generally pick 3-5 simple SIMPLE activities or reinforcer style games and just aim to keep my kids motivated and engaged enough to get a lot of practice in.

So please don’t think that you have to sit at a table and have kids point to cards. That’s an example, that’s not how you do it every session 🙅🏻‍♀️

For those who have looked through the activity ideas in the Minimal Pairs Handbook, I would love to know what you think of this section about activity ideas 👇🏻

#speechdelay #phonology #slpa #slpgradstudent #speechtherapy #speechpathology #slp #slp2b #minimalpairshandbook #speechdelaykids #speechactivities
In case you missed it.... the Minimal Pairs Handbo In case you missed it.... the Minimal Pairs Handbook has been released 🎉

If you don’t know the journey, this has been six months of researching, reading, collaborating, and creating!

I want new grads, CFY, and early career SLPs to learn this approach CORRECTLY from the start of their career...

...and more experience SLPs to tweak their practice to be even more effective 👏

The 30% sale price ends in less than 24 hours, so go to the link in my profile and start the year treating speech confidently 💪🏻

#ebpslp #speechtherapy #slp2b #slp #speech #speechpathologist #privatepracticeslp #preschoolslp #schoolslp #speechdelay
This is why the minimal pairs approach is a GREAT This is why the minimal pairs approach is a GREAT option ☝🏼.

Because even if your child ISN’T stimulable for the sound, you can still follow the principles of minimal pairs therapy!

The Minimal Pairs Handbook will be breaking down the differences between these two options, and helping you problem solve everything else 👏

Can’t wait for its release this week!!

#minimalpairshandbook #phonology #slp #slp2b #speechtherapy #schoolslp #ebpslp #speechpathology #preschoolslp
Children need to make words SOUND DIFFERENT becaus Children need to make words SOUND DIFFERENT because they have different meanings!!

At the start of minimal pairs intervention I usually find myself using those sentences, such as:

“Green means..... (go)”
“We play with.... (dough)”

The reason WHY I do this is because if the child answers that green means DOUGH, well I’m going to act totally confused and confront my little one with the communication breakdown, because I’ve added some context and meaning to it.

I do fade this out pretty quickly. And FYI - I don’t think you’ll find this in a journal article, it’s just something that MY clinical practice and experience has lead me to do!

Ask me a question 🙋🏻‍♀️ if you have one!

(and only a few more days til the Minimal Pairs Handbook is released 🤗)

#minimalpairs #speechtherapist #speechpathology #digitalslp #ebpslp #slp2b #speechdelay #phonology #speech
That’s okay!!! I learn best from watching other That’s okay!!!

I learn best from watching other people too.

But if you feel like minimal pairs was glossed over in your studies, or you’ve never really seen it be implemented PLEASE DON’T LET THAT STOP YOU FROM LEARNING THIS APPROACH!!!

The Minimal Pairs Handbook is being released this week 🤗 and it contains three video tutorials AND a 25 minute therapy session using the minimal pairs approach from Step 1-3.

Make this YOUR year to make progress with your speech kids ❤️

🤗🤗🤗🤗 WHO’s EXCITED????

👉🏻 Sign up for the waitlist and get notified when this is released! The link is in my profile.

#speechlanguagetherapy #speechtherapy #phonology #speechsounddisorders #slp #slp2b #minimalpairshandbook #speechdelay #slpgradstudent #slpgradschool #preschoolslp #schoolslp
It’s my SLP SUMMIT DAY 🥳🥳🥳 I’m not a It’s my SLP SUMMIT DAY 🥳🥳🥳

I’m not a flash sale person, but then again, it’s not every day that you get to share your passion and present to thousands of SLPs all over world 🌎 

Enjoy 20% off ALL minimal pair resources in my store for today only!!!

#speechtherapy #speechpathology #slp #slpsofinstagram #slpsontpt #slp #speech #minimalpairs #phonology #preschoolslp #schoolslp
Whether it’s your Thursday afternoon (Northern H Whether it’s your Thursday afternoon (Northern Hemisphere) or Friday morning (Southern Hemisphere), don’t miss my SLP Summit talk on the Minimal Pairs Approach!!

Who has signed up????

#ebpslp #adventuresinspeechpathology #slpsummit #slp
I don’t want to be REMEMBERED for my games!!! I I don’t want to be REMEMBERED for my games!!!

I want to be remembered as that lady WHO HELPED ME say my sounds correctly!!!

The older I get, the less games I play, and the more I keep my keep my kids engaged doing novel things like earning LEGO bricks 🧱 to build something while I’m chatting to Dad at the end of my session.

Are you with me?? 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

#speechtherapy #speechpathology #slp #slplife #slpsofinstagram #slp2b #speech #speechpathology #adventuresinspeechpathology
Did you know that these are the two most FREQUENTL Did you know that these are the two most FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS I get asked about minimal pairs?

So if you’ve thought these, you’re not alone!

Answer to the first question: well, there are options!!!! Which is great, right?! Options mean that you can individualize therapy for your child. I usually choose about 5, but have gone higher and less as well!

Answer to the second question: the minimal pairs stay the same! So I pick my treatment set carefully. The only reason why I might change my set is if the child isn’t generalizing and that system-wide change isn’t occurring (then I’ll add more to the treatment set).

For those who have read these pages in the Minimal Pairs Handbook, I’d love to know if the information makes sense 👇🏻

#speechtherapy #speechpathology #minimalpairshandbook #phonology #ebpslp #privatepracticeslp #preschoolslp #speechdelay #speech #speechdelaykids
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Adventures in Speech Pathology

Feel confident treating speech sound disorders

Uncategorized · March 28, 2018

The Complete A-Z of Speech Pathology

The complete A-Z of speech pathology

As SLPs, we know our A-Z’s. Heck, we know our digraphs too! This post is for all my pediatric peeps who let their mind wander one day they are supposed to be report writing and start thinking about what an A-Z of Speech Pathology might look like.

A is for aspiration, for once you learn this word, it is impossible to say that you swallowed something the wrong way. Oh no, you tell everyone that you just ‘aspirated’ through red, watery eyes and strained voice. ‘A’ is also for the alveolar ridge. The place where so many sounds are made. Are you an ‘al-vee-lar’ or an ‘al-vee-o-lar’ pronouncing SLP???

B is for the buccal cavity. Which most likely gives you flashbacks to your student days when you had to get one of those sucker things to get excess food out of a dysphagia patient’s mouth.  I don’t know about you, but I was a pediatric convert ever since that day…

C is for caseload. For a non-school based SLP, caseload refers to who you see. The population range and mix of communication disorders. For a school SLP, caseload = a number. And it’s a competition that you don’t want to win. And I know, for I think that I won the year that I first did a school stint (97!).

D is for daubers. Those great big fat things that started a dabbing frenzy amongst SLPs and have spawned thousands of dabalicious therapy resources to work our kids.

E is for the ears and hearing for it’s inextricably bound to us SLPs… “have they had their hearing checked?” becomes a repetitive phrase.

F is for phonology and phonetics. Phonetically speaking of course. ‘F’ is also for Facebook groups and fricatives. Why fricatives you ask? Because it sounds cool to say. Go on, say it if it has been a while.

G is for groups. You love them. They age you. You vow never again. They are so much fun. They are so much work. The kids get along so well. That one kid is driving everyone insane. Groups.

H is for hand sanitizer. Do I really need to elaborate?

I is for IEPs, the IPA and iPads. One the bane of your existence. One a secret ‘language’ you flaunt on your t-shirts. The other a game changer. Who knew words starting with ‘I’ had so much power?

J is for jobs. And aren’t we lucky that we can totally change our paths and do something completely different and reinvent ourselves. I’m totally guilty of job swapping to keep it real. I’ve gone from a rural-remote not for profit -to- developing country only SLP on the island role -to- a locum role for bush kids who receive intensive weekly therapy -to- working in an elementary and high school -to- private practice. Phew.

K is for kinetic sand. Which kinda seemed like a good idea as it’s a little like play dough, but let’s be honest here. Every time you pull it out, you vow never again. Little bits get stuck everywhere. The kids never keep it in the box. And yet you keep. bringing. it. back. out. It’s a fad you secretly wish goes away.

L is for linguistics. The one subject that may have started your career to be an SLP. And if you ever travel, your brain cannot switch off from analyzing morphology, syntax and vocabulary. It’s who were are, people.

M is for minimal pairs. A staple therapy choice in an SLP’s toolkit when targeting phonological processes. Now if only there were a gameshow or Jeopardy category on this topic…

N is for all things nasal. Nasal turbulence. Hyponasality. Hypernasality. Snot.

O is for oral motor. Because we all need that one controversial area in our field.

P is for Pop Up Pirate and play dough. The two resources that 99.9% of SLPs own and we’re not giving it up. Oh, and kids, keep your head away from the pirate. And no, I can’t leave out one of the holy grails of ‘P’: Pinterest. The crafting that has gone on in therapy rooms since Pinterest came about has made every SLP collect their toilet rolls and squirrel away paper plates.

Q stands for /kw/, for that is how it is forever known henceforth.

R is ‘arr’. Or ‘ahh’. It’s ‘ahh’ to me, this Australian who doesn’t have to pronounce it in final position. But I know that ‘R’ represents agony for most of my North American SLPeeps… my only answer is to come Down Under and forget that you can classify ‘r’ as -er, -or -ar and whatever the other vowel combinations are. You don’t need to know that here!  ‘R’ is also for report writing. Which I secretly enjoy. Is there anyone else???

S is for sensory bins. The one activity that SLPs might enjoy more than their students. And don’t get me started on how amazing those water beads feel!!! ‘S’ is also for speech bubbles and aren’t we thankful that they are a homeware craze because anyone working on social learning has a field day at the shops.

T is for TpT. There are two types of SLPs. Those who knew life before TpT and those who have only ever known TpT. When I said that the iPad was a game changer, I should have added TpT too.

U is for uvula, you know, that dangly thing at the back of your throat that only you know and makes you feel totally smart when you rattle it off at a trivia or quiz night, am I right?

V is for vocal folds. Admit it. You squirm a little when you see a voice videofluroscopy 😉 And how can I go past Velcro. Collectively, SLPs have probably used enough Velcro to wrap around the world at least 17 times!

W is for wing. As in ‘ring’, but it’s actually said as ‘wing’ because, like 70% of Kindergarteners glide this word. And really, wing-ring is the ultimate minimal pair.

X is for the xylophone – for if you have ever dared to incorporate instruments into your therapy session, you know that this is the most annoying and how you wish the sticks would break so you don’t have to hear it anymore.

Y is for yeyow. I mean yellow. It’s one of those words like ‘spaghetti’ and ‘hospital’ that we just know is going to be said incorrectly.

Z is for the S/Z ratios that is… (just let me check Google) “an indicator of laryngeal pathology”. Look, we know of them, we did them… but they can come few and far in between. It’s for your voice kids okay, just remember that.

Alright SLPs, I’m relying on you to comment below and say ‘Rebecca, you totally forgot to mention _______ for the letter _’ and help me make this the ultimate list that represents what we do 🙂

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  1. Shane Sellers says

    March 29, 2018 at 4:38 am

    Rebecca you totally forgot to mention Tongue Tip (or Tip of your Tongue) and Teeth for the letter T. I know I’ve said “Put the tip of your tongue between your teeth” or “The Tip of your Tongue goes on the ridge behind your upper teeth”, at least a million times!

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    • Rebecca Reinking says

      March 29, 2018 at 7:37 am

      I did too… I completely ignored the tongue!! I may have to go back and edit after I get some suggestions. Thanks for reminding 🙂

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