School's (almost) out for the summer! Like many SLPs, that means you're busy tying up loose ends in speech therapy. This may include figuring out if and how you're going to send your students on their merry way with some summer homework. But since time is of the essence, 'easy' is the name of the game! You need homework that your students will actually complete, but that won't take you a lot of time, hard work, or mental energy to put together. You have several options for sp

If you’ve ever handed out traditional articulation homework worksheets and been met with instant resistance… you’re not alone. For many middle school and high school students, articulation homework sheets can feel repetitive, irrelevant, and maybe a little babyish. And when students aren’t engaged, home practice often doesn’t happen… which makes carryover of speech sounds even harder and leaves speech-language pathologists wondering how to actually achieve carryover at home.

Interactive PDFs add more than a basic, printable PDF. These downloaded activities allow students to click, drag, type, or select answers right on the digital page, making them feel more like interactive games than traditional worksheets. Whether you’re working with students in person, using an iPad in therapy, or providing teletherapy, interactive PDFs make it easy to target a variety of goals while keeping students actively involved and the prep time to a minimum.

Maybe the thought of creating customized resources for your teletherapy sessions gives you all the creative feels. Orrrr maybe that thought makes you cringe, shudder, and run for the hills of Teachers Pay Teachers because, well... you don’t have the time for that kind of wheel reinvention nonsense. This blog post is Part 2 of a series about building a teletherapy toolbox you’ll use again and again. In Part 1, we discussed the qualities that make a digital activity worth

For many speech language pathologists, making the switch to a teletherapy setting often means saying 'goodbye' to your worksheets and investing in (or creating) a collection of digital materials and online resources. I (not so fondly) remember that part of the transition to speech teletherapy as an overwhelming, time-consuming, and expensive process. All of a sudden, the toys, books, and games I used for in-person sessions felt useless, and I wondered how I'd ever conduct sp