As a therapist working with children who range from preschool age to young adults, I started to notice a link between how my clients were feeling..
How Can Occupational Therapy Help Children with ADHD?
Children with ADHD have difficulties with tasks requiring focus and concentration. They have trouble paying attention and remembering things. They..
Promoting Executive Function in the School Setting
School-based speech-language pathologists provide services to diverse populations with a wide range of disabilities. Our role is to treat students’..
Ten Tips for Working with Students with Hearing Loss
Due to the all-encompassing nature of hearing impairment, treating the needs of individuals with hearing loss can seem daunting. While you’re tasked..
5 Ways to Speak with Your Pediatric Patients
One of the first things I remember learning in PT school about the pediatric population is that children are not just small adults. Their minds and..
What is Applied Behavioral Analysis?
If you are working in a pediatric setting with children with autism, it’s likely that your clients also..
Speaking valves were a subject that as an #slp2be I hardly touched upon in grad school before entering my clinical fellowship year. As a graduate of..
5 Tips for Evaluating Minimally Verbal Preschoolers with Autism
You’re a new grad! Congratulations! All your hard work has paid off and you’re now ready to enter the workforce! You’ve landed a great job..
Should I Work In Pediatric Or Adult Speech Therapy? How To Decide Which SLP Setting Is Best For You
We SLPs have a wide range of career settings available to us. However, making the choice between pediatric or adult speech therapy can be daunting...
The OT's Role In Treating Childhood Trauma
In OT school, you likely learned about physical trauma, from polytraumas sustained from an explosion on the battlefield, or the physical forces..