The College Process One of our students walked into our room the other day and announced proudly “I want to go to college!” We were so excited for our student, but it was March of his senior year and he was about 12 months too late to start the process. A few questions quickly came to mind – didn’t he… Read More
5 Reasons Why 1:1 Coaching Will Work for You
We know how hard it is to be a brand new SLP. You passed all of your graduate school classes, got your clinical hours, took the Praxis, and maybe even completed your CF and earned your C’s. But when you finally land your first job, you quickly realize how unprepared you feel. Graduate school didn’t tell you how to schedule… Read More
Top 5 Back to School Activities for Middle and High School Students
How can you make the first day of school fun for your middle and high school students? How can you prepare yourself for a smooth transition back to school? Do you struggle balancing paperwork with student sessions in the first few weeks of school? We want to make your first days back to school a little less stressful. Your transition… Read More
End of the Year Speech & Language Therapy Activities
Is anyone else checked out at this time of the year?! Let’s be real, we are just as checked out as our students. We are always on the hunt for some quick, easy, no-prep activities to get us through to the end of the year, while also continuing to target our students’ goals. It’s so important to engage not only… Read More
Must Have Resources to Target Writing Skills
Think of a skill that you learned back in elementary school, middle school, high school, and continue to use everyday as an adult. Hopefully we have become mind readers and you are thinking…WRITING! Writing is probably the most important life skill and the one that our students struggle with the most. As speech and language providers working with older students,… Read More
Using Short Films in High School Speech and Language Therapy
Do you remember the feeling when your teacher rolled in a TV and a VHS player and said you were going to watch a movie in class that day? Remember how excited you were? Well, our students feel that same burst of excitement when we tell them we are going to watch a short film in therapy. We love using… Read More
Must Have Resources to Target Vocabulary
Remember when you were studying for the SATs and bought a huge box of vocabulary flashcards to study? Be honest, how many words were you actually able to memorize and how many of those words were actually on the test? Now think about your students. What would they do if you planted a box of flashcards in front of them?… Read More
Preparing Your Students for the Real World: Let’s Get a Job!
Are your students clueless about what they want to do after high school? They can’t wait to graduate, but have no idea what they are going to do next. Or are your kids like ours and think they will become famous YouTube stars?! I hate to break it to them but the odds of becoming famous via YouTube are extremely… Read More
Preparing Your Students for the Real World: Let’s Go to College!
Are your students clueless about what they need to do to go to college? They can’t wait to graduate, but have no idea what college they want to attend, how they are going to pay for it, and what their major will be. Well, they need our help, guidance, and support! We need to set them up for success by… Read More
Life Skills Must Haves for High School
Are you an SLP working with older students? If so, life skills are something you can absolutely incorporate into your therapy sessions! If your students are anything like ours, they need a lot of support with this thing we call LIFE. Inside the school environment, they are supported with all the services they need. They have help from their teachers,… Read More
Must Have Resources to Target Oral Language
When you work with high school students, you plan for a session but sometimes that plan is not the right fit for that day. There are many times at the start of a session that the students start making requests; “I don’t feel well, can we just talk today?” Little do those students realize that a request to talk is… Read More
Back to School Morning Hacks
Are you heading back to the building in September after a year of remote tele-therapy? If you’re like us, you probably have some stress and anxiety about getting back into a morning routine, waking up at the crack of dawn, commuting, wearing actual clothes, etc. During remote tele-therapy, we were able to roll out of bed a few minutes before… Read More
Reflections on a Year of Tele-therapy
When we started our jobs in the public schools, we never in a million years imagined we’d become tele-therapists for a whole year. Tele-therapy was never something we gained experience with in graduate school, was never something we ever thought we’d be doing. We love our jobs in the schools! We love seeing our students in person! There was never… Read More
Getting In the Spirit: Incorporating Holidays and Seasons Into Your Therapy Sessions
Ever start working with a group of students and the first words out of their mouths are, “Can we just play a game today?” The high school student translation of this statement is, “Can we do nothing today?” This is a constant struggle we have when working with older students, especially before a holiday or vacation break. We all know… Read More
Guide for the School-Based SLP
We were very lucky to have had the chance to supervise a student-teacher last spring, so why not make a packet full of helpful resources for her? This was a useful guide to give her at the beginning of her experience. She was so thankful and used it everyday. It helped to keep her organized, professional, and was a great… Read More
Fluency Interactive Digital Notebook
We are so excited about this Fluency Interactive Digital Notebook! If you’ve never heard of a “digital notebook” before – have no fear! We hadn’t heard of it before going remote last spring either. A digital notebook is a resource created using Google Slides. It is designed to look like an actual notebook organized into different sections. Each section is… Read More
Must Haves for the Beginning the of the Year
We are about two weeks away from the beginning of our school year. In NYC, we usually start the day after Labor Day. As of the latest, our students will be in a hybrid model, which means we will be seeing some of our students in-person and some of our students virtually. Given the craziness that the beginning of this… Read More
Therapy Room to Virtual Room
Transitioning from the therapy room to tele-therapy has been a challenge not only for our students, but for us as well. We had a routine in place with our students and shifting to remote learning rocked all of our worlds. We were expected to begin tele-therapy right away on platforms we were unfamiliar with. While it was a stressful transition,… Read More
Tele-therapy Resources for High School Speech and Language
Last night, our district (the largest one in the US) announced a shutdown until April 20 (at the very least). We, like so many of you, are worried about our students and our own health and well-being during this scary time. We are awaiting information this week about how to teach our students remotely, but we are still unclear how… Read More
Executive Functioning Strategies for High School Students
Midterm and Finals week is dreaded by high school students everywhere. For many of our students with speech and language learning disorders, finals week brings about even more stress. Many of our students are overwhelmed by just the sheer number of tests they are required to take. Some are re-taking state exams and feel pressure to pass in order to… Read More