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Speech in the Schools

Reflections on PSHA, Part 1
April 11, 2012 2:00 PM by Valerie Lill
Last time, I blogged about being a member of a state speech-language-hearing association. In that blog I mentioned my state association's upcoming annual convention. Today's post is about some of my experiences at the PSHA Convention . I'll write about Read More...
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New School Year, New Ideas
September 14, 2011 9:00 AM by Valerie Lill
It certainly has been a busy (and a bit unusual) start to the school year! If the weather around here lately is any indication of what the winter and the rest of the school year is going to be like, we're in trouble! Since I've gone back to school , we've Read More...
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A School of My Own
August 31, 2011 8:04 AM by Valerie Lill
Welcome back to school, fellow SLPs! Now, I realize if you are in other parts of the country, you might not start until after Labor Day, but where I live all the schools either started last week or this week. Either way - welcome back! I hope that all Read More...
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August Already?
August 3, 2011 8:22 AM by Valerie Lill
Here I am at home getting ready for the calendar to turn another month in less than 24 hours. Yes folks, August has arrived! Now, I'm not sure what that means in other parts of the country, but where I live, school starts in August. Actually, around here Read More...
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Book It, Part 8: More Resources to Support Using Picture Books in Therapy
July 18, 2011 8:42 AM by Sean Sweeney
When I first started to become interested in using picture books as contexts for intervention in my public school SLP position, I was really happy to find Books are for Talking Too, by Jane Gebers. It was clearly just the resource I was looking for at Read More...
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Google, Friend of the SLP, Part 14: Create your own Website with Google Sites
March 14, 2011 10:00 AM by Sean Sweeney
It used to be that you needed a great deal of technical knowledge to create and publish a website to the Internet. You had to become familiar with Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), the programming language used to build sites, complicated programs such Read More...
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Google, Friend of the SLP, Part 9 – Sharing though Google Docs
December 20, 2010 11:18 AM by Sean Sweeney
SLPs need to share in order to get our jobs done — from essential documents to therapy materials, we depend on each other a lot! Within your school-based department, there is often a lot of back-and-forth via email about documents: Here's a little lesson Read More...
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Google, Friend of the SLP Part 7—Simple Collaboration and Sharing of Presentations
November 22, 2010 12:05 PM by Sean Sweeney
SLPs are frequently called upon to make presentations. Parents, faculty, students and fellow SLPs all benefit from us sharing our expertise in speech and language, a topic that is often not well understood by those who haven't taken umpteen graduate courses. Read More...
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Google, Friend of the SLP, Part 5: Reader
October 25, 2010 11:09 AM by Sean Sweeney
So by now, if you are reading this post, you probably have found a few blogs you like to peruse for your professional development and personal edification. Another of Google's free tools — Reader — lets you aggregate all the sites you visit regularly Read More...
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PODD for Students with AAC
September 29, 2010 11:29 AM by Valerie Lill
In my last blog entry, I discussed my push-in therapy that I do within the Life Skills classroom. As part of that discussion, when I had mentioned some of the communication modalities the students used, I had mentioned PODD. Several people had commented Read More...
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Google, Friend of the SLP: Part 3
September 27, 2010 11:25 AM by Sean Sweeney
You know that "To Do" list you keep losing under a stack of test protocols, or that you wish you could carry with you to each IEP meeting so that you can remember what else you promised to do? Google can help you with that too, with the same login and Read More...
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Google, Friend of the SLP: Part One
August 30, 2010 2:55 PM by Sean Sweeney
In addition to being a total Apple "fanboy", as they say, I must confess I am a pretty big Googlephile — this is somewhat of a conflict as the two companies are generally in competition, but I can somehow reconcile that opposition. What I love about Google Read More...
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    Speech in the Schools
    Occupation: School-based speech-language pathologists
    Setting: Traditional and specialized K-12 classrooms
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