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58. Should Preschool SLPs Teach Letters? Rethinking Early Literacy, and Language Development
Should speech-language pathologists care about teaching letters at the preschool level? Some professionals argue no, prioritizing play, pragmatics, or comprehension instead. But research shows this doesn’t have to be...
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57. Three Speech Sound Disorder Myths Every SLP Should Rethink (Right Now)
Think you need to start with single sounds before clusters? Or that only kids with phonological processes benefit from complex targets? Think again. In this episode, I call BS on three of the most common speech sound...
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56. Executive Function in Speech Therapy: 4 Proven Strategies for Success
As SLPs, we know communication impairments often go hand-in-hand with executive function difficulties — impacting social, academic, and even vocational outcomes. In this episode, I’ll share four key components of...
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55. Autism A–Z: 20 Evidence-Based Strategies (The Alphabet Soup Approach) for SLPs
Working with preschool or school-age children with autism? This jam-packed episode breaks down 20 evidence-based practices—the Alphabet Soup Approach—so you can treat autism from every angle: motor, sensory, EF,...
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54. Manifestation for SLPs: 3 Visualization Strategies to Overcome Overwhelm and Find Success
Feeling overwhelmed as a speech-language pathologist? Between endless caseloads, behavior challenges, and high expectations, it’s easy to get stuck in stress and self-doubt. In today’s episode, I share three powerful...
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53. Dialogic Reading Strategies Every SLP Needs: How to Boost Literacy & Engagement
Print is becoming a bigger part of how we communicate—and as SLPs, we must be ready to support children’s literacy skills effectively. In this episode, I break down Dialogic Reading and the CROWD prompts (Completion,...
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52. Language Goals Are 80% of Your Outcomes (Stop Wasting Time on Prepositions)
If you work with children with language impairment, this will be a game-changer. Treatment goals are the food that drives 80% of your therapy outcomes—so why are we still writing goals like it’s 2004?
In this episode,...
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51. Why Complex Goals Drive Bigger Gains in Speech, Language, and Literacy
This marks the end of the very first year of The Preschool SLP Podcast — thank you for joining me on this journey! Together we’ve grown, questioned, and reimagined how to make therapy more impactful. Today’s episode...
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50. Boosting Narratives in Developmental Language Delay: My #1 Strategy That Works
If you work with children who have developmental language delay (DLD), this is an episode you can’t miss.
In this week’s episode, I share my #1 most effective intervention strategy for improving oral narratives in...
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49. Developmental Language Delay: Why Verbal Working Memory Matters More Than Grammar at Age 3
If you work with preschoolers or school-aged children with developmental language delay, you won’t want to miss this episode.
Too often, clinicians focus on grammatical morphemes at age three — but research shows...
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48. Should You Assess Grammatical Morphemes at Age 3? The Evidence Says No.
Are you assessing grammatical morphemes in your three-year-olds? You may want to rethink that approach. In this episode, I break down three evidence-based reasons why grammatical morphemes are not reliable indicators...
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47. Five Proven Strategies to Boost Speech Development in Autism
If you’ve ever been told to “withhold until they ask” when working with children with autism, this episode will challenge that approach. Twenty years ago, I did it too—and I saw how it backfired. Today, I’m sharing...
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