SpeechTea Blog

  • A SLPs Guide To A Language-Enriched Easter Basket

    by Erin Larsen
    It's that time of year and everyone is headed to the store to fill Easter baskets!   During the Christmas season, I was asked often by parents for ...
    Posted in parents, toys

  • How To Carryover Fluency Techniques and Skills In the Home

    by Erin Larsen
    Need help getting carryover in the home with your stuttering clients? Try these tips and strategies! Speech therapy is only successful once it is generalized!
    Posted in parents, stuttering

  • 5 Ways to Use Pop Its in Speech Therapy

    by Erin Larsen
    These little popper sensory toys are still all the rage with kids. And I LOVE incorporating motivating toys in my sessions. Even better? They are m...
    Posted in speech room, therapy tips

  • 5 Things To Do When Your Session Takes A Turn South

    by Erin Larsen
    Hi SLP friends!    Let's chat about 5 things to do when your session takes a turn south. Look, you’ll here me repeat this so often on the podcast b...
    Posted in behavior management, speech room, therapy tips

  • 3 Mistakes I See EI Providers Make (and what to do instead)

    by Erin Larsen
    Hi SLP friends! Today I want to talk about 3 mistakes that I see EI providers make. Now I’ve done early intervention either part time or full time...
    Posted in early intervention, therapy tips

  • 3 Ways To Become A Better CF Supervisor

    by Erin Larsen
    Hi SLP friends! Today I wanted to chat about 3 ways to become a better CF supervisor. Now if you are a CF listening or you think one day you might ...

  • Celebrating Birthdays in Speech

    by Erin Larsen
    Hi SLP friends! Let’s talk about celebrating birthdays in speech. I LOVE celebrating birthdays in speech. I always know when their birthdays are an...
    Posted in crafts, speech room

  • Why You Can’t Stop Evaluating your Speech Therapy Clients

    by Erin Larsen
    Hi SLP friends! I want to chat about why you need to continuously evaluate your clients. And no, I’m not talking about standardized tests. But befo...
    Posted in assessment

  • Hey SLP, Get Outside and PLAY!

    by Erin Larsen
    Let's talk about how you can move therapy outside and play to increase speech and language. Read my top tips and favorite activities to engage and grow!
    Posted in therapy tips

  • How To Carryover Early Intervention Strategies In The Home

    by Erin Larsen
    In Early Intervention, we often have the benefit of seeing the child in their own, natural environment. We can assess the hurdles they may have to overcome in their homes and we see the areas where we can educate the parent or caregiver. But how can we make sure the therapy techniques we model and educate on are being transferred over on a daily basis?
    Posted in early intervention

  • How To Get Carryover of Social Language Skills In The Home

    by Erin Larsen
    We’re talking all about generalization and carryover of our client’s goals into their home for the next few weeks, so I KNEW we had to discuss this...
    Posted in homework, pragmatic language

  • Building Verbal Imitation Skills

    by Erin Larsen

    Now that you’ve educated the parents, coached them through strategies, and their child is demonstrating the Pre-Linguistic Skills we addressed in our first two blogs, we can start building on those skills! But where to begin? Think back on how you observe children acquiring language. Does a 1 year old spontaneously go from never making any verbalizations to suddenly responding to verbal routines or saying “hello” and “mama”? Not typically. All of those small little coos and giggles eventually manifest as whole, recognizable words over time and with the right encouragement.

    Posted in early intervention, parents, therapy tips