Bilinguistics

VPI Developmental Pyramid to Organize Your Assessment Velopharyngeal Insufficiency is difficult to diagnose and treat. Did you know that there are 8 abilities that need to be in place to create intelligible syllables? If we test these abilities, we not only know in specific ways why a child isn’t intelligible but we also have a great set of goals. Use this pyramid for your informal assessment and for gathering data. #speechpathology #speechtherapy

Strategies for Culturally and Linguistically Responsive AAC Practices in Schools Have you ever worked with a student who uses an AAC device and felt like the system they were using just didn't allow them the vocabulary that they needed to communicate across their different environments? It is certainly a challenge that many of us have faced. That’s why we took some time to speak with a speech language pathologist from a large urban district who spends her days traveling to dozens of campuses to support her SLP colleagues. #speechpathology #speechtherapy

What are the Best Speech Therapy Initial /f/ Words? Food, Family, Fun, Fireworks, Fourth - of course! We hope you have an amazing day filled with fun, food, and family. Happy 4th y’all! #speechpathology #speechtherapy

7 Ways to Have Highly Engaged Older Students in Speech Therapy Keeping our older students focused on their goals, coming to therapy, and participating in groups or individual sessions can be really tough. Maybe they have been in speech therapy for a really long time. Maybe they’re embarrassed. Either way, some older students are tough to connect with. That’s why we created this infographic with 7 key insights to keep your older students engaged. Click to Download: #speechpathology #speechtherapy

Summer is finally here! The last of our community of SLPs that work in the schools are finally wrapping things up in the northeast. For the rest of you that finished up in May, hopefully you are not even seeing this message because you are buried in a book, elbow deep in activities with your kids, or somewhere beautiful. It takes a special person to match the energy of children for 8 months. We hope you recharge in the most magnificent of ways. For those of you meeting us in Belize in a couple weeks, we can’t wait to meet you. #speechpathology #speechtherapy

The Overconfidence Effect – Misperceptions About Amount of SLP Work and How Long it Takes How many of you have completely misjudged the amount of time it will take to finish something such as writing up an eval, testing a child, or completing your progress notes? In this fifth essay on bias, we embark on a journey to unravel the mysteries of the overconfidence effect. Read More: #speechpathology #speechtherapy

How to Promote a Positive Mindset in Young Children Respect and positivity are a huge focus with our young therapy group members. Often, we are telling them HOW to act: Be kind. Be respectful. But are teaching the WHY or showing the results of poor choices? Here is a simple chart to walk them through how thoughts, feelings, actions, and results are related. This way they can see the relationship between how their words or actions make others feel and result in positive or negative outcomes. Free Download: https://bit.ly/38DoTw5 #speechpathology #speechtherapy

Most celebration days are just funny or interesting, and others you just have to try. Today is the Official June Bug Day. Turn your porch light on tonight and meet some new friends. I can’t think of a better way to get the attention of the boys in our groups than to show before/after - cause/effect - following directions that ends in something gross! #speechpathology #speechtherapy

Veteran SLP Author and Researcher Offering Advice on Working with Interpreters: 9 Minutes – 4 Videos Henriette W. Langdon wrote the book on how SLPs can effectively and harmoniously work with interpreters. We sat down to talk with her about how working with interpreters has evolved over her 50 year career and what current best practices are. She is as humble as she is intelligent and she has an incredible story about why she got into this field and how she learned so many languages. She is a true living legend so we begin with a cameo video so you can get to know her and continue with three tough questions. #speechpathology #speechtherapy

Deciphering the Conjunction Fallacy - Overlap or Isolation of Disorders? How often have we sat in meetings with other professionals such as OTs, PTs, reading specialists, and diagnosticians, nodding our heads along with their descriptions of the goals that our shared clients and students are working on. Yes, we “share” children. To think that this is the norm indicates that we may haven fallen prey to a form of bias called conjunction fallacy. Worse yet, without knowing about it, we could misdiagnose or negatively impact the referral process. Check out this new essay from our series on bias: #speechpathology #speechtherapy