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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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46. Speech Perception & 12 Risk Factors for Literacy: A Simple SLP Framework
Headed to ASHA? Don’t miss my posters in the gallery under Kelly Vess! In this episode, we’re tackling one of the most overlooked areas in speech therapy—speech perception—and why it’s directly tied to literacy...
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45. Five Literacy Skills Impacted by Childhood Apraxia of Speech (and How SLPs Can Intervene Early)
If you work with children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS), you can’t afford to miss this conversation. In today’s episode, I break down five critical areas of literacy that children with CAS are more likely to...
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44. Emotionally Based vs Evidence-Based Practice: 6 Myths SLPs Must Stop Believing
As SLPs, our work is far too important to rely on emotionally based practice—doing something simply because it “sounds good” or because it’s trending on social media. Every detail of your practice matters.
In this...
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43. Three Big AAC Mistakes SLPs Make (and What to Do Instead)
AAC is one of the most powerful—and most challenging—tools we have as speech-language pathologists. But let’s be honest: it’s not easy. Devices change, philosophies clash, and too often our students leave preschool...
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42. Research Your Practice: The #1 Advice That Transforms SLP Outcomes
If I could go back 20 years and give myself just one piece of advice as a brand-new speech-language pathologist, it would be this: research your practice.
In this episode, I unpack what it truly means to research your...
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41. Boosting Literacy in Preschoolers with Autism: 5 Proven Strategies for SLPs
If you work with preschoolers on the autism spectrum, this episode is a must-listen. Today, we dive into the latest research on emergent literacy skills in children with autism and uncover which print concepts are...
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