One of my favorite websites to vist after a hard day’s work is CuteOverload.com. For those of you who don’t know, CuteOverload.com is a fantastic site that features daily pictures of cute animals that make even the grumpiest of people say, “Awwww!” Not only is this site extremely entertaining, but it’s also one heck of [...]
It isn’t every day that you get to see a DOG playing BASKETBALL! Wow, I sure was impressed when I came across this 1 minute video on YouTube so I felt the need to share it with with my 3rd grade students. I believe that incorporating audio-visual media into the speech therapy session really helps [...]
The possibilities are endless when we decide to teach our little ones all about opposites. We have a fantastic ability to create a ton of fun speech activities that can help improve children’s understanding of opposites. Here are some of the wacky things that we here at Pocket SLP love to do with our speech [...]
As a speech-language pathologist, I am sure you can agree with me when I say . . . sometimes our job can get a bit crazy. Huge caseloads, wacky IEPs, how do we even do it all? I often like to imagine how the job could be a smidge easier if we were able to [...]
Speech-language pathologists are no strangers when it comes to the human oral and facial anatomy. We are always (consciously or subconsciously) analyzing our students’ teeth, tongue range and motion, and lips to ensure that they are able to produce adequate speech articulation. So here is my silly little question to you, have you ever looked [...]
I had a 1st grade student not too long ago who produced the /B/ sound for the /V/ sound. Viking was biking, violin was buy-olin, village was billage, etc. After about three sessions of initial V therapy, my student was a pro at the word and sentence level. He easily remembered the strategies I taught [...]
If you are a speech-language pathologist, I am sure you would agree with me that you almost always say (out of pure habit), “Great snake sound!” when you are working with children to help improve their /S/ pronunciation. It only makes sense that we automatically associate the hissing sound a snake makes with the /S/ [...]
Remember when I wrote the post called Hoola Hoop Video Speech Therapy and talked about how YouTube clips should be used in speech therapy whenever possible? Well, did you take my advice? I hope you did because incorporating audio-visual media into my therapy sessions have really been a smash hit and I am confident it can work for you, [...]
In my opinion, when a bright and motivated HUMAN college student decides to major in speech-language pathology, that is a moment that should be celebrated. We really need passionate HUMANS to enter this field so that they can positively impact all of the HUMAN children with various communication difficulties. HUMAN clinicians are the best clinicians [...]
I’m not sure if Homeworkphobia is a “real” phobia, but I’m starting to think it has to be because some of my students consistently come up with the most hilarious excuses for not doing their speech homework. You name it, I’ve heard it. Here is an example of one I heard today from a 2nd [...]
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