The Speech Umbrella

When a child has difficulty with listening skills, auditory processing and auditory memory, we could give it a lot of names, including Auditory Processing Disorder, or APD. But whether or not a clien…

Does data get you down? Do you find yourself struggling to write easy to measure goals that are still meaningful? Have you ever found you were measuring the wrong thing when it comes to writing progr…

Sometimes you need your client to buckle down, pay attention and work hard, but that’s the last thing they want to do. Here’s a way to motivate a reluctant child to try their hardest. 

When NOTHING works to elicit k or g, here’s a little something that may help. Join us as we discuss a client with a very complicated /k/.

Have you been thinking about starting your own speech therapy clinic but feel intimated by everything you need to do? Let us talk you through the first steps! In this podcast we cover legal requireme…

Using sticky notes to help clients organize their written language reduces the cognitive load of word order and word recall, and at the same time eliminates the frustration of constant erasing. 

Celebrate with us! We are passing our one year anniversary and we couldn't be happier. We also passed our 2000th download this week. Thank you everyone, wherever you listen. 

Helping clients organize their language is a huge part of what we do. Using boxes to represent language concepts can help the abstract become concrete. In this podcast we describe many ways a box can…

Narrative language intervention with young adults can get complicated pretty fast, leaving therapists wondering how to intervene effectively. Join us as we take a deep dive into a case study with a y…

Early Intervention therapy can be challenging without good information on  the developmental order of foundational skills, such as gestures. This episode introduces a fantastic resource for clinician…

Some children’s first spoken language is sound effects, and language therapy with a child like this might go nowhere fast unless the SLP recognizes and begins speaking their language. Tune into this …

Are you tearing your hair out over a persistent lisp? Do you have a client with a lateral lisp that resists correction? If so, then this podcast can help you understand what to look at in order to co…

If you’ve ever wondered what PROMPT therapy is all about, then this podcast is for you. In this episode you’ll get an overview of how speech therapists use PROMPT to look at all of the aspects of art…

My best tip for upping your productivity and reducing stress is featured in today’s podcast. May is Better Speech and Hearing month, and I’d like to share how I become a better therapist. Improving m…

To finish up autism awareness month, we have a special guest this week. Join us to hear David’s mother, Rebecca, describe their struggles and triumphs with autism. David has been featured in all the …

If you’ve been tuning into The Mindful SLP podcasts this month, then you already know a little about my client David, who is on the autism spectrum, and the significant progress he has made in the pa…

This week’s podcast describes how teaching Stage One Sentence Types dramatically improved expressive language in a client with autism, and how you can try the same intervention. Essential Language fo…