Speechie Side Up

In this episode, I am joined by Hannah Foley, an Assistive Technology (AT) Professional Specializing in Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC).

This episode is part of AAC Connect. AAC Connect is an online event where we’ll bring together professionals and individuals with first-person experience in Augmentative and Alternative Communication(AAC) to discuss the latest research, assessment tools, and treatment strategies.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from top professionals in the field and connect with other families and individuals who are part of the AAC community.

In this episode, I am joined by Megan Stewart, an ASHA Certified Speech Language Pathologist and an AAC and Literacy Coach.

This episode is part of AAC Connect. AAC Connect is an online event where we’ll bring together professionals and individuals with first-person experience in Augmentative and Alternative Communication(AAC) to discuss the latest research, assessment tools, and treatment strategies.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from top professionals in the field and connect with other families and individuals who are part of the AAC community.

In this episode, I am joined by Myia Sower, a Speech-Language Pathologist  and owner of the teletherapy company LowKey Speech Teletherapy LLC. Myia has worked in public schools, skilled nursing facilities, as well as in-patient rehab. Prior to becoming a certified Speech-Language Pathologist she was a Special Education teacher for 15 years.

Now she is looking to use her skills to increase SLP pay, change the negative view SPED directors have of teletherapy, and increase access to speech therapy services while providing a system of support for therapists in the school based SLP field.

In this episode, I am joined by Melissa Cipyak, a Speech-Language Pathologist for 12 years. Melissa has primarily worked as a school-based SLP, she has also worked part-time in pediatric private practices, as well as teaching 1st grade for a year. 

Melissa has 2 children and her family is her priority.  She left Speech Therapy to be a stay at home mom for 11 years and jumped back into the field this past school year, working in a K-12 school and building relationships with her students. 

Language has always been her passion since she believes that communication is the key to creating our relationships.

In this episode, I am joined by Lacey Quinby, an ASHA certified Speech-Language Pathologist, an Air Force spouse and a mother of three. Lacey has numerous years of experience in toddler through preschool language development and extensive continuing education on infant and childhood feeding obstacles and challenges.

She recently started her own private practice in Georgia, the Magnolia Pediatric Therapy, where she provides services related to early language development, pediatric feeding disorders, and parent coaching.

Lacey firmly believes that if you love what you do, you will make a positive difference in the lives of those you serve.

In this episode, I am joined by Jaime Perez, she is the founder of Thriving Joy Pediatric Therapy, LLC in Tampa, FL offering mobile therapy services in homes and daycares. She is an ASHA certified Speech Language Pathologist, passionate feeding specialist, and mother of two crazy boys. She is also a Certified Neonatal Therapist, Certified Neonatal Massage Therapist, Certified Lactation Counselor in training, and has been treating medically complex infants and children in hospitals and NICUs for over 10 years.

In this episode, I am joined by Katie Lambert and Jessica Moreno. 

Jessica recently completed her CFY and is now a fully licensed speech language pathologist. She attended Sacramento State University and NYU. As a mom of two dyslexic children, this is what fuels her passion for language and literacy and supporting the underserved population.

Katie Lambert has been an ASHA board certified and California licensed SLP for 15 years. She has a particular expertise with language-based literacy intervention and working with students of all ages with dyslexia.

In this episode, I am joined by Breanna Waldrup, a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist and the owner of Apraxia Dallas, PLLC. Breanna’s primary area of expertise is motor speech disorders, especially childhood apraxia of speech (CAS), which she has specialized in for more than 11 years. Breanna graduated from the Apraxia Kids Training Institute (CAS Boot Camp) and is recognized as having Advanced Training and Expertise in CAS. Since 2017, Breanna has coordinated the North Texas Walk for Apraxia, benefiting Apraxia Kids. She has presented continuing education courses across the country since 2016 and developed much of the Child Apraxia Treatment website. Breanna believes strongly that every child has the right to communicate and strives to help each child with whom she works to find their voice.

Registration for Apraxia Connect is still open and super affordable, but only until Friday, June 23rd for general admission! Don’t miss this opportunity to become more confident in diagnosing and treating clients with CAS.

In this episode, you'll get to learn about the cause of apraxia, the long-term prognosis, how CAS can affect mental health, and more!

In this episode, I am joined by Melanie Y. Evans, M.S. CCC-SLP. She is a bilingual pediatric Speech-Language Pathologist licensed to practice in Texas and Oklahoma. She is also the founder of Pediatric Speech Sister, whose mission is to assist other speech-language pathologists on their cultural competency journeys. Melanie dedicates her career to serving Black and Latinx populations and closing the academic achievement gap.

This crash course takes clips from all the upcoming SLP Creative Con courses and mashes them into one value-packed episode.

If you're enjoying this episode then you'll love hearing the full courses at  SLP Creative Con, starting March 18th, 2023. It's designed for entrepreneurs and creators in the field of Speech Language Pathology. Attendees will get to learn about social media, marketing, branding, private practice, financial planning, time management, and the most important things to do when starting a business. 

You'll be able to earn up to 0.7 ASHA CEUs, join live panel discussions, download essential business templates, and grab digital discounts and more. 

In this episode, I am joined by Katja Piscitelli, a Speech Therapist and owner of Total Spectrum Speech Therapy INC, located in Sacramento CA. Katja specializes in working with autistic students / gestalt language processors. Katja is dedicated to learning from autistic voices, and sharing the knowledge gained, as well as knowledge from her own clinical experience, with her audience on Instagram (@bohospeechie).

In this epiosde, I am joined by Laura Hayes, a Speech-Language Pathologist with over 14 years of augmentative and alternative communication experience in both school and medical settings.

Laura has presented locally and at state, national, and international conferences such as MSHA, ATIA, AAC in the Cloud, Helix, TalkingAAC, and the Pediatric Perspectives Conference. She has been published and supported both inpatient pediatric and educational augmentative communication research. She loves providing training, implementation resources, and guided direction to help with success using AAC. She can be followed for more resources and ideas on Instagram @aac_innovations.

In this episode, I am joined by Ebony Green. Ebony is a speech language pathologist and a former K-12 teacher. She started her private practice in 2019 and was able to secure contracts with several schools and double her practice revenue within the first two years of being in business. Since Ebony became an entrepreneur, she has always helped other private practitioners along the way. As a former educator, Ebony is passionate about teaching and sharing resources with others. In 2021 Ebony was named an ASHA Distinguished Early Career Professional based on her work and the platform she built to help other SLPs learn how to become successful business owners. Today Ebony has contracts with dozens of schools in Arizona. Her company contracts with various schools including private schools, public schools, and charter schools. Ebony leads a team of 30 therapists and serves as the CEO of her private practice, CASA Speech and Development Services.

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In this episode, I'm joined by Dr. Dani Gaff, a pediatric speech-language pathologist at an elementary school in Indiana. She is also the owner of The Messy SLP, LLC, a small private practice serving pediatric clients in the Michiana area. She is better known as @TheMessySLP on Instagram, where she uses her platform to encourage work/life balance, share real-life humor, and collaborate with others. We cover "n of 1," starting out with AAC, and the process of finding the right device.

If starting a private practice or helping your practice run automatically is one of your goals this year, then check out Simple Practice! I use it in my private practice and it has everything I need, including intake forms, automatic billing, SOAP notes, private messaging, appointment reminders, and more! Try it for 30 days and get one month free using my link below:

We're kicking off the 2023 season with this episode on creating value-based vision boards! We'll cover 5 tips to make sure your vision board goals are attainable, realistic, and meaningful this year. 

If starting a private practice or helping your practice run automatically is one of your goals this year, then check out Simple Practice! I use it in my private practice and it has everything I need, including intake forms, automatic billing, SOAP notes, private messaging, appointment reminders, and more! Try it for 30 days and get one month free using my link below:

The episode is part of the AAC Connect series and was inspired by a frustrated teacher that reached out to me. She was told her student wasn’t ready for AAC because he did not point, discriminate or attend long enough. I share some ways to address each skill when a client is not exhibiting these skills "yet."

The episode is part of the AAC Connect series. I used to provide AAC trial devices to professionals. Now that I’m on the other side as a private practitioner, I wish we could hold on to the devices longer. Every client is so unique and feature matching can take a long time. Especially if you only see a client 1-2 times a week! Here are 5 things you can do to help with the trial process.

This solo episode is all about the mistakes I made with AAC in the past. We review 6 things I wish I knew starting out with AAC like determining grid size, programming, moving beyond requesting, teaching literacy, adding gestalts, and giving exploration time.

This solo is all about AAC in early intervention. We review 3 tips to start using AAC in EI when you don’t have buy-in or access to high-tech systems.

In this podcourse, I am joined by Kayla Fontenot, a Speech-Language Pathologist and IAOM Certified Orofacial Myologist®. Kayla has worked in hospitals, rehab centers, and school districts across the state of Texas. She has been in private practice since 2011, licensed in the state of Texas, and holds the Certificate of Clinical Competency from the American Speech Language and Hearing Association (ASHA).

Kayla founded Flower Mound Speech & Therapy Center in 2015 because she saw a need to provide in-depth, personalized services for her clients.

In this episode I am joined by Becky, a Speech and Language Therapist with a passion for creating fun and engaging materials for therapy sessions and lessons. She loves sharing parent coaching tips & tricks, and helping other SLPs love early language development and intervention.

In this episode I am joined by Kelly Vess. Aside from being a pediatric speech-language pathologist and an off-campus clinical supervisor, Kelly Vess is the author of the digital, how-to, treatment book, "Speech Sound Disorders: Comprehensive Evaluation and Treatment" (Thieme Publishers). Kelly also presents the latest best-practice intervention seminars for SpeechPathology.com and the Bureau of Education and Research. Kelly Vess's evidence-based practice research is freely available to the public on ResearchGate.

In this episode, I am joined by Brooke & Bridget, sisters and speech-language pathologists who are passionate about guiding parents with practical tips to integrate speech and language techniques into their everyday routines. Together, they have more than 20 years of combined experience, and have even been featured on Good Morning America!

In this episode, I am joined by Mollie Romano, a professor and Assistant Director of the Communication and Early Childhood Research and Practice Center at Florida State University. Her research focuses on caregiver implemented interventions to support the development of infants and toddlers with disabilities and those at risk for delays, professional development approaches for early childhood providers, and interventions that target prelinguistic communication skills.

In this podcourse, I am joined by Cara Tambellini. Cara is an early intervention expert speech-language pathologist. She has over a decade of experience working with young children under the age of three. She holds a master's degree in speech-language pathology from Northwestern University. She is licensed to practice in California and is registered by the College of Speech and Hearing Professionals in British Columbia. In addition, Cara is clinically certified by Speech-Language Audiology Canada and she holds her Certification of Clinical Competence from the American Speech-Language Hearing Association.

Today I am joined by Los Angeles-based speech therapist, parent coach and technology specialist, Rachel Madel. Rachel is dedicated to helping families and speech therapists of children with complex communication needs to communicate functionally throughout their day.

In this podcourse, I am joined by Cari Ebert, MS, CCC-SLP. Cari is a pediatric speech-language pathologist in private practice in the Kansas City, Missouri area. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Iowa in 1993 and her master’s degree from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1995. Cari is a therapist, consultant, author, and nationally recognized speaker who gets paid to do what she loves most…TALK! She works exclusively with young children, birth to age five, and their families and believes that early intervention is the key to future success. She has dedicated her career to helping young children achieve their maximum potential with speech, language, and social-emotional development. Cari has an autistic son which allows her to engage audiences both as a professional and as a parent of a neurodivergent child.

In this podcourse, I am joined by Jessie Ginsburg, M.A, CCC-SLP. Jessie a Sensory IntegrationⓇ trained speech-language pathologist, creator of ASD from the Inside Out, and founder of Pediatric Therapy Playhouse, a top-rated speech & language clinic in Los Angeles. Through her national publications and talks, and her internationally-acclaimed Inside Out course, Jessie inspires a new way of thinking about the SLP’s role in treating young autistic children. We discuss the topic of sensory needs in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and how to implement sensory regulation into therapy sessions to best serve the child. Jessie shares how to identify sensory differences in your students and how to target sensory regulation despite limited resources.

In this podcourse, I am joined by Rachel Dorsey, a Speech-Language Pathologist, educator, consultant, and autism rights advocate. Through her private practice/consultancy, Rachel Dorsey: Autistic SLP, LLC, she provides therapy sessions and education to parents, professionals, school districts, and organizations through coaching, consultations, in-services, professional developments, and courses on neurodiversity-affirming therapeutic practice. The services she offers as a consultant draw upon her own experience as an Autistic person and her nearly six years of clinical experience working within early intervention, preschool (CPSE), school-aged, post-secondary through itinerant work, and clinic-based settings. 

In this session, we discussed important factors and strategies for supporting the socio-emotional well-being of autistic clients. This session explored strategies to implement with young children, as well as, difficulties clinicians may encounter when supporting the socio-emotional wellbeing of older autistic children.

In this episode, I am joined by Cheri Dodge Chin, an assistive technology consultant for a public school district in Portland, Oregon. She has a clinical doctorate in speech-language pathology and 20+ years of experience helping children, educators, and families develop speech & language skills. She began her blog, Super Power Speech, in 2008 with the hope of engaging other speech pathologists and passing on ideas and resources. The blog is now recognized as one of the first SLP blogs in the world and has been nominated for multiple awards. Aside from flying around and trying to save the world, you can find her reading, running, or eating dessert.

In this podcourse, I am joined by Michelle Therrien, a professor at Florida State University whose research interests include connection building – supporting social interaction and friendship for individuals who use AAC, bringing researchers and practitioners together to support the use of evidence-based practices in schools and communities, and forming interdisciplinary collaborations to increase participation of individuals who use AAC in their communities.

In this episode we discussed important factors in supporting social interaction and friendship for individuals who use augmentative and alternative (AAC) systems, as well as supporting children with complex communication needs and autism.

In this podcourse, I am joined by Kate McLaughlin, a Speech-Language Pathologist specializing in augmentative communication for children with complex communication needs.  She is passionate about supporting children and families on their journey to autonomous communication. She is a certified member of the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association and holds licensure as a speech-language pathologist in the state of Connecticut, USA.  Kate is in private practice in Connecticut providing direct therapy and consultative services for individuals with complex communication needs.  Kate is the creator of an online course on AAC called Authentic AAC: Implementing Communication Systems for Autonomy & Connection.

We identified 2 universal requirements for all emergent AAC users, and 3 key stakeholders in AAC assessment. We also described 2 models of AAC assessment and its dynamic process.

In this podcourse, we discussed gestalt language processing and how to identify a gestalt learner. We discussed the need to identify a gestalt language learner when assessing progress and explored what treatment would look like in relation to natural language acquisition.

In this podcourse, we discussed basic understandings of co-regulation and self-regulation. We also discussed the difference between behaviors and dysregulation or stress behaviors. In addition, we explored various strategies and approaches to co-regulation and how to integrate them into therapy.

In this podcourse, we identified 3 signs of dyslexia and discussed an SLPs role in the diagnosing process. We looked at 3 areas to assess dyslexia and how to effectively identify which 2 assessments to consider for a dyslexia evaluation.

In this podcourse I am joined by Dr. Olivia Jensen, a speech pathologist practicing in Tucson, Arizona. Olivia completed her masters and doctorate degree at Northwestern University. She currently practices in home health and private practice environments. In the private practice she treats both pediatrics and adults.

This podcourse was first presented during the bAACk to School AAC Challenge on August 17, 2021. We’re releasing it on the podcast this month to celebrate #aacawarenessmonth

This podcourse was first presented during the bAACk to School AAC Challenge on August 17, 2021. We’re releasing it on the podcast this month to celebrate #aacawarenessmonth