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The Preschool SLP: KellyVessSLP

The Preschool SLP: KellyVessSLP

Hosted by: Kelly Vess, MA, CCC-SLP

Get ready for all things speech pathology: AAC, ADHD, Apraxia, Articulation Therapy, Autism, Behavior, Early Intervention, Executive Function, Evidence-Based Practice, Gestalt Language, Literacy Intervention,...

Episodes

210. The Hidden Visual Processing Problem Affecting Language in Autism

Season #5

If you work with children with autism, developmental delays, or complex communication needs, this episode is a must-listen. Today, we’re talking about cerebral visual impairment, or CVI, and why it may be one of the...
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209. DTTC for AAC: The 5-Step Prompting Framework That Builds Independence Fast

Season #5

Many clinicians are told there is a right way to prompt AAC users. You may have heard that you should always use least-to-most prompting. Others insist most-to-least prompting is best. But what does the research...
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208. The 5-Step Therapy Routine That Works for Every Child on Your Caseload

Season #5

Feeling overwhelmed by a caseload that includes autism, childhood apraxia of speech, developmental language disorder, articulation, fluency, and AAC users… all back-to-back? You are not alone. Many speech-language...
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207. DTTC Isn’t Just for Apraxia: A Scaffolding Blueprint for Speech, Language, Literacy, Fluency, and AAC

Season #5

What do Gustav Eiffel and dynamic, tactile, temporal cueing have in common? Scaffolding, vision, and the courage to aim higher than anyone else. In this episode, I break down why Dynamic, Tactile, Temporal Cueing...
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206. Why Traditional Speech Therapy Misses Drooling: What Works Instead

Season #5

If you work with children who drool, this episode is for you. I’m pulling back the curtain on an approach I’ve used for over 15 years that has consistently reduced—and often eliminated—drooling in preschoolers. Not in...
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205. What 707 Autistic Preschoolers Reveal About Who Develops Speech—and Who Doesn’t

Season #5

If you work with preschoolers with autism and you care about spoken language outcomes, this episode matters. A lot. In today’s episode of The Preschool SLP Podcast, we unpack the largest study to date examining why...
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204. The R Workout: Applying Exercise Science to Fix the Hardest Sound in Speech

Season #5

What if the problem with treating the R sound isn’t the child—but the way we train it? In today’s episode, we step outside the field of speech-language pathology and borrow powerful, evidence-based principles from...
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203. Consonant Clusters Aren’t Too Hard: They’re the Shortcut.

Season #5

Are consonant clusters really “too complex” for kids with severe speech sound disorders—or have we been aiming too low? This episode tackles one of the most persistent myths in speech therapy: that children with...
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202. When AAC Feels Hard, It’s Working: What Effective Clinicians Do Differently

Season #5

If you work with children who are minimally speaking with autism or you love a child who is minimally speaking, today’s episode matters. Over the past year, I’ve been doing something deeply intentional. I’ve been...
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