Black History Month begins next week! Here are some things to keep in mind for therapy materials:

1. Do your research! Make sure the information you are educating your students/clients on is accurate and based on historical facts.

2. Keep your intentions in mind - consider WHY it's important to teach students about Black history.

3. Release the struggle - not all Black history is about slavery or the Civil Rights Movement. There's a lot to celebrate! Remind students about the celebratory aspects of Black culture.

4. Support Black businesses! There's plenty of Black businesses on TPT and Boom Cards (such as myself) who sell treatment materials. Support them this month and year round.

Specialist and expert in: psychotherapy for mental disorders, Psychological support, providing guidance and awareness to adults, parents, and spouses... behavior modification, applying projective and cognitive tests and several measures to diagnose aspects of personality.

Do you use wordless videos for pragmatic/language treatment and wonder where you can find the proof of its efficacy? Check out this article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40489-016-0098-5

P.S. If you're looking for EBP Google Scholar is an excellent resource. Happy treatment planning!

I am a new SLP about to work at a high school for the first time. Can someone offer different kinds of language activities for this population? Anything helps! Thank you

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.– Two speech-language pathologists are providing speech therapy on wheels.

The Chatterbus travels to different areas and catches the eye of school-aged children with its monkey bars, tent, swing, crafts and more, all used to give speech therapy. Suzanne Howard’s sons came home from school one day, and she knew she had to learn more.

“My sons came home and talked about the fun little things they did on the Chatterbus — they didn’t even talk about school that day,” Howard said.

https://www.kark.com/news/local-news/the-chatterbus-speech-therapy-on-wheels-for-central-arkansas/

Happy belated Juneteenth! For those who aren't familiar with the holiday, Juneteenth is otherwise known as the "Black Independence Day," when slaves in Texas learned about their freedom TWO YEARS after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

For those who are interested in discussing this topic in pediatric speech therapy, I included a mini book with Wh- questions to get you started! You can download it for FREE here: tinyurl.com/juneteenthminibook. Be sure to share with your SLP friends!