Did you know that caregiver education is essential to a child’s carryover/generalization of skills within the home, school, and community?

Creating understanding, responsive, respectful, and collaborative rapport with caregivers can yield to an environment where caregivers feel safe and encouraged to learn.

Clink the link below to gain insights on how a speech-language pathologist can integrate such an approach when providing caregiver training for augmentative and alternative communication and/or multimodal communication use (which involves all forms of communication use). 💞🤩✨💖

https://www.theinformedslp.com/reviews

*Awareness*

I am sure many of us have at least once encountered certain individuals who, neither are RCI certified SLPs nor have any legit knowledge on communication disorders, claim to have solutions that supposedly enable them to "cure" Autism, ADHD, and other communication disorders in children. These claims often promise remedy, taking advantage of the limited knowledge and vulnerability of parents seeking help for their children.
This issue is deeply concerning as it highlights the significant lack in our society's awareness on speech-language problems.
It's disheartening to see how far we still have to go to educate people and develop effective, evidence-based policies and guidelines to address these challenges.
It is important that we work to raise awareness about the significance of proper diagnosis and intervention.
We must work together to ensure that parents and caregivers are well informed about the same. Understanding these conditions is crucial in bringing awareness, acceptance and support for those diagnosed.

Within speech-language pathology, group therapy sessions stand out as an effective strategy for boosting social skills in those facing communication challenges. This method does more than enhance speech—it significantly enriches social interactions. It's become a crucial tactic for Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) and offers new possibilities for parents.

Full blog: https://content.liricare.com/group-speech-therapy/

Children with ADHD characterised with inattention, hyperactive & impulsive behaviour due to
such character their functional behaviour is disturbed. Providing sensory integration along with sensory diet is
one of the treatment of choice of these children. Many researcher have stated that outdoor play provides
opportunities to explore the natural world, interact with peers & engaged in active play. Therefore in this study
attempt has been taken to establish the influence of outdoor play combined with sensory diet on functional
behaviour in children with ADHD.

How can SLPs help children of color heal from collective trauma? "Collective trauma" explains the psychological distress experienced when a group or large community experience a shared trauma. This can be the psychological impact of watching protests and riots in response to police brutality cases like George Floyd, or other experiences like the ever-going water crises in Flint Michigan.

Pepperdine University (2021) provides insights on how we can help children heal from collective trauma. This is necessary for SLPs so we can ensure the welfare of the people we services (ASHA Code of Ethics, 2023).

You can see the article HERE: https://onlinegrad.pepperdine.edu/blog/children-of-color-collective-trauma-recovery/#supporting

Black History Month begins next week! Here are some things to keep in mind for therapy materials:

1. Do your research! Make sure the information you are educating your students/clients on is accurate and based on historical facts.

2. Keep your intentions in mind - consider WHY it's important to teach students about Black history.

3. Release the struggle - not all Black history is about slavery or the Civil Rights Movement. There's a lot to celebrate! Remind students about the celebratory aspects of Black culture.

4. Support Black businesses! There's plenty of Black businesses on TPT and Boom Cards (such as myself) who sell treatment materials. Support them this month and year round.

Specialist and expert in: psychotherapy for mental disorders, Psychological support, providing guidance and awareness to adults, parents, and spouses... behavior modification, applying projective and cognitive tests and several measures to diagnose aspects of personality.

Do you use wordless videos for pragmatic/language treatment and wonder where you can find the proof of its efficacy? Check out this article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40489-016-0098-5

P.S. If you're looking for EBP Google Scholar is an excellent resource. Happy treatment planning!

I am a new SLP about to work at a high school for the first time. Can someone offer different kinds of language activities for this population? Anything helps! Thank you

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.– Two speech-language pathologists are providing speech therapy on wheels.

The Chatterbus travels to different areas and catches the eye of school-aged children with its monkey bars, tent, swing, crafts and more, all used to give speech therapy. Suzanne Howard’s sons came home from school one day, and she knew she had to learn more.

“My sons came home and talked about the fun little things they did on the Chatterbus — they didn’t even talk about school that day,” Howard said.

https://www.kark.com/news/local-news/the-chatterbus-speech-therapy-on-wheels-for-central-arkansas/