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Summer Ideas for Families to Maintain and Generalize Speech and Language Skills

Looking for ideas to share with families to help build and maintain speech and language skills over the summer? Check out this post of free and low-cost suggestions.

Screening and Progress Monitoring for Stuttering: In-Person versus Teletherapy

Stuttering therapy is about more than just learning Fluency Shaping Strategies and Stuttering Modification Techniques. It also requires us to check in with our students and their families about feelings, attitudes and addressing fears and for some students limiting thoughts. I think that is one reason that Stuttering therapy is

5 Helpful Tips to Find Success with Stuttering Therapy

Stuttering therapy can cause anxiety and frustration for everyone! For you, it may increase your heart rate just thinking “How do I do this effectively and not cause emotional harm to this child?” For your students, it may just be overwhelming and frustrating. Why does stuttering therapy cause this reaction

Spring Ideas for Families that Build Speech and Language

Many years ago, I noticed that Individual Education Plan (IEP) meetings occur frequently during this time of year. Is it just me? During many of these meetings, I have had my parents ask time and again different ways that they could help their child build and generalize their speech and

5 Ways to Save BIG on Speech Therapy Materials

Speech-Language Pathologists spend so much of their own funds in an effort to help our students, clients, and patients learn new skills and successfully meet their goals. Personally, I’m so thankful that I have never kept records of all the money I have spent in the 25 years that I

The Six Best Resources for Student Engagement as an SLP Teletherapist

I feel that one of the biggest hurdles that we need to pass when providing speech and language services to students is to keep them engaged. If we can keep them interested and engaged, that is half of the battle towards student success. The same is true when providing

Avoid the Summer Slide for Speech and Language Skills

The term ‘summer slide’ refers to the decrease in skills related to the summer months when school is no longer in session. Typically, it is in reference to academic skills’ however, many of us see it in speech too. How many times have you had a student or more make

5 Tips for the Low-Key Type A SLP during Summer

Are you like me? You want to be organized and start the next school year off with a BANG but still, want to enjoy your summer break? I use to scramble at the end of the year to do it all and my end result was being sick of

Improve Quality Of Life By Teaching About Friends

As we all know, personal relationships are important and add quality to our life. While we have the family we are born into, friends become the family that we choose for ourselves. Friends add a HUGE amount of quality to our life. A couple of years ago, one of my

How to Engage Middle School Students in Speech Therapy

Let’s be real for a moment. If you look at the BIG companies that sell us resources to target speech and language skills, you won’t find much geared towards our secondary age students. In fact, recently I compiled a list of speech and language games that are commercially out there

Meet Tamatha

Tamatha Cauckwell is an ASHA certified Speech Language Pathologist with experience working in a variety of settings. Prior to obtaining her Masters in Communicative Sciences and Disorders, she was an SLP Assistant, a Self-contained Special Education Teacher, and a Preschool Teacher and Director. Her combined professional career experiences have given her a unique outlook and understanding regarding behavior management and collaborative needs when working with other professionals, colleagues, and families.