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For the past couple of days I have been home with the flu. Yuck.  Below is me in a nutshell... But I won't let the flu get me down! The past couple of days I have been working diligently on getting this project done. I started this project probably a year ago! Crazy it took me that long to finish it but it is great quality! The two links below will lead you to my teachers pay teachers store. There I have added two confrontation naming materials, a lite version and a full version. In the lite version there are 10 confrontation naming tasks that include a hierarchy of cues for the patient. In the full version there are over 90 confrontation naming tasks, a hierarchy of cues for each task and a way to track progress for the patient! I hope you enjoy it, I know that I am super excited to use it personally in acute care, long term acute care and my outpatient facility! http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Functional-Confrontation-Naming-Lite-Version-1064510 http:...

This past summer I had the opportunity to go to the Level 1 PECS course. PECS stands for Picture Exchange Communication System. It is an augmentative and alternative mode of communication for a wide variety of patients. One topic that was briefly covered was “wait time.” I am so thankful that I was able to begin implementing this into my practice. I can’t tell you how many children I have on my caseload that will grab toys without permission (which I typically like to turn into a language opportunity). Out of these children that want things immediately there are several that will begin to have a behavioral breakdown due to not receiving their desired item/object/attention immediately. How often have you seen this scenario occur? Child: (Going to the slide unsupervised while mom and therapist talks). Mom: “No no you need to wait until we are done talking” Child: (Continues to go to slide). Mom: “No no you need to wait.” (Mom begins to approach c...

Delayed Auditory Feedback Recently, I have had the opportunity to work with a patient that has neurogenic stuttering. We have attempted easy onset and using continuous voicing to improve the dysfluency. We have seen some gains with both of these therapy techniques and I plan to continue to utilize both of them but this patient has a goal to be back to work in a relatively short period of time. So, I decided to try a delayed auditory feedback (DAF) system with my patient. We have seen great results! Now there are several approaches to providing treatment for patients who stutter and this blog post is only discussing one of them, delayed auditory feedback. 1.    What is delayed auditory feedback and how does it work? DAF is a device that takes your voice and delays it by a set time. This set time can be predetermined by the speech-language pathologist or the patient.   DAF systems are thought to best help patients who stutter that have an under ...

Have any of you moved before? If so, you know how hectic life can be during and after the move! So after a crazy couple of weeks of moving we finally have the Internet and I have my cozy office set up. As I sip on a nice cup of tea this evening I find myself reflecting on some of my adult patients that I have been so fortunate to work with lately. Most of these patients have sustained traumatic brain injuries and/or a stroke. When an event like this occurs it can leave the patient with significant cognitive-linguistic deficits. Often times these patients that I see will reflect upon what used to be. “I used to be able to read an entire book.” “I could go to the grocery store without a shopping list.” Etc.. This reflection is normal and can help drive treatment but when a patient becomes stuck or fixated in the world of “what used to be” then making gains in treatment can be challenging. Though I have never experienced a traumatic brain injury or a stroke I...

I don't know about all of you but I have been having so much using Halloween materials in treatment this month! I thought tonight I would write out some of the items that I have been using. First we have Spooky Speech by Sublime Speech -  http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Spooky-Speech-Halloween-Articulation-Word-Lists-and-Activities-372036 This download is free and is full of various articulation targets. If you are working in groups there is a great opportunity to turn the articulation targets into language centered goals. Some language activities may include picking out  1-4 words and having your patient create a sentence, turning the words into an auditory memory task, having your patient draw a story from the words, giving definitions, etc., I also find the vocabulary in this appropriate for my adult population especially with word finding difficulty. Another fun activity is Ms. Lane's Happy Halloween following directions download. I am having trouble fi...

Earlier in the year I was contacted by the alumni association at Missouri State University. They told me that I was nominated by someone at the MSU to have a small piece done about my endeavors since graduation. I have no idea who nominated me but I am so flattered. So if that person is reading this I would like to say thank you. I hope that the work I am doing know is making Missouri State University proud! If you would like to check out the article visit http://www.missouristate.edu/spotlights/?id=473 go bears!

Wow it has been just way too long since I have posted on my blog, my apologies! I plan to be more consistent in review of different app's, journal reviews and treatment techniques that I have found successful. Tonight I wanted to write about an app that honestly I didn't pay a lot of attention to until recently. This app is The Entire World of Articulation Flipbooks. Before I review this app I wanted to say that I have no affiliation to the creator of the app and I am not being reimbursed for this app review. The reason why I didn't pay a lot of attention to it was because when you open it (picture below) it looks likes the focus in on the varied forms of /r/. I didn't realize that it covers the following: AR, AIR, EAR, ER, OR, R blends, Recurrent R's & IRE, RL, Prevocalic R, /k/, /g/, /s/, /z/, "sh," "ch," "th," /f/, /v/, /p/, /b/, /m/, /n/, /t/, /d/, S-R-L blends, and /w/ and /l/. Holy smokes that is a lot of phonemes! If...