The Speech Umbrella
The Speech Umbrella Podcast specializes in exploring simple but powerful therapy tools to maximize therapy outcomes while minimizing your stress and preparation time. With the depth of knowledge stemming from over 30 years in the field of pediatric speech therapy, Denise Stratton, MS, CCC-SLP shares simple tools for optimal outcomes.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 21 minutes
- Episodes
- 105
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
What SLPs Need to Know About Tongue Ties
Tongue ties, also referred to as tethered oral tissues (TOTs) can seem like a complex issue, but what it really comes down to is understanding when functional eating, speaking and sleeping are impair…
Rubrics to the Rescue
Getting a valid measurement on complex language skills is challenging. Rubrics are a great tool for measuring multiple skills with multiple levels of complexity. They can also be valuable motivators …
With New Eyes
As SLPs, problem solving is something we do every day with our clients. But add behavior challenges into the mix and progress can come to a screeching halt. Many of us don’t receive training in this …
The Dark Side of Superheroes
A constant message in modern superhero media is that BIG
reactions are the ONLY solution. That’s not a great message for any
child, let alone those who already struggle with outsize reactions.
In The Da…
Runaway Conjunctions
When you teach your clients conjunctions, a little knowledge can become a dangerous thing. Sometimes clients start throwing conjunctions around like they’re going out of style, and their stories beco…
Where Everybody Knows Your Name
Have you noticed your clients with language impairments really struggle to recall names? This can be a real communication barrier, both socially and in literacy development.
Stories are the fabr…
To Infinity and Beyond
Are you ready to talk about grammar? Infinitive verbs are early developing, and too often overlooked, but they are critical in early language and cognitive development.
To Infinity and Beyond! explor…
What About ABA?
What About ABA? covers a few key questions to ask parents that can help them figure out whether ABA therapy is right for them. Look for the following in episode #57:
• Questions to ask a potential A…
Hanen More Than Words Overview
While we understand that communication is more than talking, it’s not always easy to explain why this is so to parents. Concepts that are so familiar to us—joint interaction, pragmatics, gesture deve…
Chores: Charting a Path to Organized Thinking
We know many of our clients struggle with executive function. What’s one powerful way families can teach executive function to their children? Chores! In episode 55, Nate and Melanie Young describe t…
Raising an Organized Child
This episode reviews Dr. Damon Korb’s book, Raising an Organized Child. Dr. Korb not only explains organized thinking in an accessible way, but has suggestions for how to get there, from birth throug…
Climbing the Social Detective Ladder
| We know how important it is to teach our clients to read social cues. But that’s so much easier said than done! Making the implicit explicit can be a real challenge for us. Here’s how Episode 53 …
Choose Your Books Wisely
Wouldn’t it be handy to have a template for choosing the most effective books for therapy?
That’s exactly what you’ll get in Episode 52, Choose Your Books Wisely. This episode covers:
Four criteria for…
Four Simple Steps to Success: Jacquie's Recipe
This episode covers four simple, but effective, ways to help children of all abilities learn. My guest, Jacquie Johnson, shares her recipe for success both in the classroom and at home. Plus she shar…
The Conversation Game
If you’re looking for a method to teach natural, spontaneous conversation, look no further than The Conversation Game. This episode describes how to improve an often overlooked skill needed for conve…
Word Dancing
What is Word Dancing? Possibly the single best thing families can do to dramatically and positively impact their children’s speech and language, and their academic future. The research showing the r…
Stop Playing Whack-A-Mole with Stuttering Therapy
What is a vital, but often overlook component of stuttering therapy? Do you feel like there’s a missing piece with some clients who stutter, but you can’t put your finger on it? Find that missing pie…
Dancing The Macarena On An Iceberg
What do icebergs and the Macarena have to do with speech therapy? Episode 47 describes a case history of a fluency client, underlying issues that needed to be addressed before stuttering therapy coul…
Follow the Narrative Road
Let’s hear it for Narrative Intervention! Kids learn so much language with narrative therapy. But what if they seem ready for stories, but still can’t quite grasp narratives? Even when you use the m…
How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?
Basic listening skills are critical to language and reading development, but if they’re missing how do you begin to work on them? Episode 45, “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?” is full of ideas…