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The SLP Now Podcast

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The SLP Now Podcast is your go-to resource for practical speech-language pathology tips. Through this podcast, you'll hear directly from Marisha Mets, a school-based SLP turned research nerd. She’ll be joined by expert guests to answer your biggest questions. Submit your questions at slpnow.com/ask.
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Episodes

103: Comprehensive Emergent Literacy: Steps 1-2

This month, we are talking all things AAC and literacy with Venita Litvack, a speech language pathologist, currently serving as a full-time augmentative and alternative communication and assistant technology consultant for public schools in Florida. She has a passion for using AAC and literary to support individuals with complex communication needs. She's also an amazing fellow podcaster and blogger. Venita shares some powerful frameworks for practice and loads of amazing resources to support us...

Nov 09, 202114 min

102: Getting Started with AAC & Literacy

This month, we are talking all things AAC and literacy with Venita Litvack, a speech language pathologist, currently serving as a full-time augmentative and alternative communication and assistant technology consultant for public schools in Florida. She has a passion for using AAC and literary to support individuals with complex communication needs. She's also an amazing fellow podcaster and blogger. Venita shares some powerful frameworks for practice and loads of amazing resources to support us...

Nov 02, 202112 min

101: What We've Learned About Phonological Awareness

This month, Monica and I are diving into all things phonological awareness. In Episode 98, we did a quick review of what phonological awareness is, and we're going to spend the rest of the month talking about goals, assessment, and treatment ideas. Help us make the podcast even better! Click here to share your feedback. https://airtable.com/shrOG7HXAXP7m2rz5 Mentioned in this episode: 5 FREE Therapy Materials Go to 🔗 slpnow.com/pod 🔗 to download 5 evidence-backed therapy materials for FREE!...

Oct 26, 202112 min

100: Phonological Awareness: Treatment Ideas

This month, Monica and I are diving into all things phonological awareness. In Episode 98, we did a quick review of what phonological awareness is, and we're going to spend the rest of the month talking about goals, assessment, and treatment ideas. Help us make the podcast even better! Click here to share your feedback. https://airtable.com/shrOG7HXAXP7m2rz5 Mentioned in this episode: 5 FREE Therapy Materials Go to 🔗 slpnow.com/pod 🔗 to download 5 evidence-backed therapy materials for FREE!...

Oct 19, 202116 min

99: Phonological Awareness: Assessment + Goals

This month, Monica and I are diving into all things phonological awareness. In Episode 98, we did a quick review of what phonological awareness is, and we're going to spend the rest of the month talking about goals, assessment, and treatment ideas. Help us make the podcast even better! Click here to share your feedback. https://airtable.com/shrOG7HXAXP7m2rz5 Mentioned in this episode: 5 FREE Therapy Materials Go to 🔗 slpnow.com/pod 🔗 to download 5 evidence-backed therapy materials for FREE!...

Oct 12, 202112 min

98: A Quick Review of Phonological Awareness

This month, Monica and I are talking about phonological awareness and sharing our experiences. This topic was highly requested by many of our SLP Now members so in this episode, you'll learn about different activities and what this would look like in therapy. Help us make the podcast even better! Click here to share your feedback. https://airtable.com/shrOG7HXAXP7m2rz5 Mentioned in this episode: 5 FREE Therapy Materials Go to 🔗 slpnow.com/pod 🔗 to download 5 evidence-backed therapy materials f...

Oct 05, 202119 min

97: How We Approach Client Perspectives

This month, we have Monica Lind joining us to talk about all things evidence-based practice. In Episode 94, we spoke about the EBP triangle. For the rest of the month, we'll dive into the different parts of the triangle. Help us make the podcast even better! Click here to share your feedback. https://airtable.com/shrOG7HXAXP7m2rz5 Mentioned in this episode: 5 FREE Therapy Materials Go to 🔗 slpnow.com/pod 🔗 to download 5 evidence-backed therapy materials for FREE!...

Sep 28, 202116 min

96: How We Approach Clinical Expertise

This month, we have Monica Lind joining us to talk about all things evidence-based practice. In Episode 94, we spoke about the EBP triangle. For the rest of the month, we'll dive into the different parts of the triangle. Help us make the podcast even better! Click here to share your feedback. https://airtable.com/shrOG7HXAXP7m2rz5 Mentioned in this episode: 5 FREE Therapy Materials Go to 🔗 slpnow.com/pod 🔗 to download 5 evidence-backed therapy materials for FREE!...

Sep 21, 202111 min

95: How We Approach Evidence (Internal and External)

This month, we have Monica Lind joining us to talk about all things evidence-based practice. In the previous episode, we spoke about the EBP triangle. For the rest of the month, we'll dive into the different parts of the triangle. Help us make the podcast even better! Click here to share your feedback. https://airtable.com/shrOG7HXAXP7m2rz5 Mentioned in this episode: 5 FREE Therapy Materials Go to 🔗 slpnow.com/pod 🔗 to download 5 evidence-backed therapy materials for FREE!...

Sep 14, 202124 min

94: A Quick Review of EBP

This month, Monica and I are diving into evidence-based practice. We'll begin by reviewing the evidence-based triangle that we've all seen many times throughout graduate school training and continuing education. We'll spend the next episodes exploring each part of the triangle and what that looks like in practice! Help us make the podcast even better! Click here to share your feedback. https://airtable.com/shrOG7HXAXP7m2rz5 Mentioned in this episode: 5 FREE Therapy Materials Go to 🔗 slpnow.com/...

Sep 07, 202111 min

93: Considerations for Linguistic Diversity When Assessing Narratives

This month, we are continuing our exploration of all things narratives. Go back and listen to episodes 90, 91, and 92 for more on this topic. Help us make the podcast even better! Click here to share your feedback. https://airtable.com/shrOG7HXAXP7m2rz5 Mentioned in this episode: 5 FREE Therapy Materials Go to 🔗 slpnow.com/pod 🔗 to download 5 evidence-backed therapy materials for FREE!...

Aug 24, 202116 min

92: Quick Tips for Language Sample Overwhelm

This month, we are continuing our exploration of all things narratives. The rest of the episodes throughout the month, we'll dive into specific aspects of assessment and things to consider when you're getting ready to target narratives in therapy. Help us make the podcast even better! Click here to share your feedback. https://airtable.com/shrOG7HXAXP7m2rz5 Mentioned in this episode: 5 FREE Therapy Materials Go to 🔗 slpnow.com/pod 🔗 to download 5 evidence-backed therapy materials for FREE!...

Aug 17, 202114 min

91: A Quick Review of Informal Assessments for Narratives

This month, we are continuing our exploration of narratives with informal assessments. In case you missed it, head back to Episode 90 to hear how Monica and I tackle narrative assessment and build a framework around it. Help us make the podcast even better! Click here to share your feedback. https://airtable.com/shrOG7HXAXP7m2rz5 Mentioned in this episode: 5 FREE Therapy Materials Go to 🔗 slpnow.com/pod 🔗 to download 5 evidence-backed therapy materials for FREE!...

Aug 10, 202117 min

90: A Quick Review of Formal Assessments for Narratives

This month we're diving into all things narratives, a topic that's so closely connected with academic achievement. But before we get there, I am excited to introduce the newest addition to the SLP Now team, Monica! Monica is a lead SLP for a school district in Southern California and comes with a broad range of experience, including literacy-based therapy and functional social and language therapy. Help us make the podcast even better! Click here to share your feedback. https://airtable.com/shrO...

Aug 03, 202113 min

89: Getting Practical with Curriculum-Based Therapy: Secondary

Wow, I cannot believe we're wrapping up this month of curriculum-based therapy content! There is so much to dive into. This week, we are working with secondary students and the sample goals for this group include identifying facts vs. opinions, identifying the main idea and key details, summarizing, producing sentences with 3 or more clauses, and determining the meaning of words using affixes. Mentioned in this episode: 5 FREE Therapy Materials Go to 🔗 slpnow.com/pod 🔗 to download 5 evidence-b...

Jun 22, 202111 min

88: Getting Practical with Curriculum-Based Therapy: Later Elementary

I hypothetically have a group of 6th graders who are working on answering questions, defining multiple meaning words, and summarizing text. So in this episode, we're continuing to follow the curriculum-based therapy theme using a literacy-based therapy framework. Let's dive in! Mentioned in this episode: 5 FREE Therapy Materials Go to 🔗 slpnow.com/pod 🔗 to download 5 evidence-backed therapy materials for FREE!

Jun 15, 202113 min

87: Getting Practical with Curriculum-Based Therapy: Early Elementary

Let's continue on the curriculum-based therapy train with early elementary. Some of the goals I'm targeting with this group include answering questions, identifying key details, defining tier two vocabulary words, and producing compound or complex sentences. Mentioned in this episode: 5 FREE Therapy Materials Go to 🔗 slpnow.com/pod 🔗 to download 5 evidence-backed therapy materials for FREE!

Jun 08, 202111 min

86: Getting Practical with Curriculum-Based Therapy: Preschool

I cannot tell you how much I've been looking forward to this month's content. We're diving into all things curriculum-based therapy for preschoolers. This is a great way to step up all of the literacy-based therapy strategies that we've been talking about and embed them into the classroom. Mentioned in this episode: 5 FREE Therapy Materials Go to 🔗 slpnow.com/pod 🔗 to download 5 evidence-backed therapy materials for FREE!

Jun 01, 202114 min

86: Getting Practical with Curriculum-Based Therapy: Preschool

I cannot tell you how much I've been looking forward to this month's content. We're diving into all things curriculum-based therapy for preschoolers. This is a great way to step up all of the literacy-based therapy strategies that we've been talking about and embed them into the classroom. Mentioned in this episode: 5 FREE Therapy Materials Go to 🔗 slpnow.com/pod 🔗 to download 5 evidence-backed therapy materials for FREE!

Jun 01, 202114 min

85: Targeting Narratives with Literacy-Based Therapy: Secondary

Now we get to dive into something different for our older students. Teaching them how to identify the main idea, key details, and how to summarize are incredibly important skills for them to learn as they move forward in life. Mentioned in this episode: 5 FREE Therapy Materials Go to 🔗 slpnow.com/pod 🔗 to download 5 evidence-backed therapy materials for FREE!

May 25, 202114 min

84: Targeting Narratives with Literacy-Based Therapy: Later Elementary

Let's dive into some therapy plans for later elementary students. We will focus on how to target narratives using a literacy-based therapy framework. We'll explore goals around answering questions about story grammar elements, retelling a story, and generating narratives. Mentioned in this episode: 5 FREE Therapy Materials Go to 🔗 slpnow.com/pod 🔗 to download 5 evidence-backed therapy materials for FREE!

May 18, 202114 min

83: Targeting Narratives with Literacy-Based Therapy: Early Elementary

Let's dive into some therapy plans for our early elementary students. This week, we are focusing on narratives. Teaching story grammar elements will increase student comprehension and provide them with a meaningful framework. Mentioned in this episode: 5 FREE Therapy Materials Go to 🔗 slpnow.com/pod 🔗 to download 5 evidence-backed therapy materials for FREE!

May 11, 202113 min

82: Targeting Narratives with Literacy-Based Therapy: Preschool

This week, we are diving into all things preschool and all things narratives, which are important skills for young students to master. This is the episode for you if you're working on answering questions about a story, sequencing, describing picture cards, or retelling a story. Mentioned in this episode: 5 FREE Therapy Materials Go to 🔗 slpnow.com/pod 🔗 to download 5 evidence-backed therapy materials for FREE!

May 04, 202111 min

81: Targeting Vocabulary Goals with Literacy-Based Therapy: Secondary

This month, we are focusing on all things vocabulary and diving into Dr. Ukrainetz's five-step literacy-based therapy framework, and integrating that with all of the research that we found on vocabulary. So, we're super excited to share the nitty gritty, yet practical details in this week's plan. Mentioned in this episode: 5 FREE Therapy Materials Go to 🔗 slpnow.com/pod 🔗 to download 5 evidence-backed therapy materials for FREE!

Apr 27, 202110 min

80: Targeting Vocabulary Goals with Literacy-Based Therapy: Later Elementary

This month, we are focusing on all things vocabulary and diving into Dr. Ukrainetz's five-step literacy-based therapy framework, and integrating that with all of the research that we found on vocabulary. So, we're super excited to share the nitty gritty, yet practical details in this week's plan. Mentioned in this episode: 5 FREE Therapy Materials Go to 🔗 slpnow.com/pod 🔗 to download 5 evidence-backed therapy materials for FREE!

Apr 20, 202114 min

79: Targeting Vocabulary Goals with Literacy-Based Therapy: Early Elementary

This month, we are focusing on all things vocabulary and diving into Dr. Ukrainetz's five-step literacy-based therapy framework, and integrating that with all of the research that we found on vocabulary. So, we're super excited to share the nitty gritty, yet practical details in this week's plan. Mentioned in this episode: 5 FREE Therapy Materials Go to 🔗 slpnow.com/pod 🔗 to download 5 evidence-backed therapy materials for FREE!

Apr 13, 202115 min

78: Targeting Vocabulary Goals with Literacy-Based Therapy: Preschool

This month, we are focusing on all things vocabulary and diving into Dr. Ukrainetz's five-step literacy-based therapy framework, and integrating that with all of the research that we found on vocabulary. So, we're super excited to share the nitty gritty, yet practical details in this week's plan. Mentioned in this episode: 5 FREE Therapy Materials Go to 🔗 slpnow.com/pod 🔗 to download 5 evidence-backed therapy materials for FREE!

Apr 06, 202116 min

77: Targeting Grammar Goals with Literacy-Based Therapy: Secondary

This month we are getting super practical and sharing therapy plans for a variety of grammar goals. We dive into the research and integrate that with an amazing 5-step, literacy-based therapy framework to give you tons of practical tips and resources that you can use to target a variety of goals across your caseload. Let's dive in! Mentioned in this episode: 5 FREE Therapy Materials Go to 🔗 slpnow.com/pod 🔗 to download 5 evidence-backed therapy materials for FREE!...

Mar 22, 202115 min

76: Targeting Grammar Goals with Literacy-Based Therapy: Later Elementary

This month we are getting super practical and sharing therapy plans for a variety of grammar goals. We dive into the research and integrate that with an amazing 5-step, literacy-based therapy framework to give you tons of practical tips and resources that you can use to target a variety of goals across your caseload. Let's dive in! Mentioned in this episode: 5 FREE Therapy Materials Go to 🔗 slpnow.com/pod 🔗 to download 5 evidence-backed therapy materials for FREE!...

Mar 16, 202116 min

75: Targeting Grammar Goals with Literacy-Based Therapy: Early Elementary

This month we are getting super practical and sharing therapy plans for a variety of grammar goals. We dive into the research and integrate that with an amazing 5-step, literacy-based therapy framework to give you tons of practical tips and resources that you can use to target a variety of goals across your caseload. Let's dive in! Mentioned in this episode: 5 FREE Therapy Materials Go to 🔗 slpnow.com/pod 🔗 to download 5 evidence-backed therapy materials for FREE!...

Mar 09, 202115 min
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