SLP Summit
When SLP Summit Showed Up: The Courses That Changed Everything
There are conferences that inform you. And then there are the ones that change you.
SLP Summit
A Love Letter to Nine Years of SLP Summit
When someone asks me (Sarah) to name the courses or the moments or the people who have stood out over nine years of SLP Summit, my brain immediately starts listing names and I immediately start panicking that I'm going to leave someone out.
Clinical
When Is It OK to Stop? An SLP's Guide to Dismissing from Therapy
Dismissal might be the most under discussed clinical decision in our field. We talk endlessly about evaluation, goal writing, and therapy approaches but talk far less about how to know when a student is ready to graduate from speech.
Year end
What Progress Actually Looks Like: A Cleaner Way to Measure What Matters
If you've ever submitted a perfectly clean data sheet for a student and still walked out of the IEP meeting feeling like the data didn't capture them, you're not alone.
Office Hours
We Were Live: June Office Hours Recap with Nikki Hunjan
Our latest Office Hours session with Nikki Hunjan was amazing! We explored real-world challenges and shared ideas around supporting students in meaningful ways, navigating implementation barriers, and finding strategies that work in the realities of busy school and therapy settings.
Year end
How Can We Create Summer Homework Families Will Actually Use?
Have you ever dismissed a student for summer break with a thorough and well-planned home program packet only to find it untouched eight weeks later? Before you write anything, ask the family two questions!
Self-care
The Burnout Talk: How to Spot It in Yourself and Your Students Before Summer Hits
Burnout has stages, symptoms, and a recovery arc. The sooner we name it, the sooner we can treat it.
Office Hours
June Office Hour: Therapy Ideas & Organization Tips with Nikki Hunjan
Show up, an authority on a topic drops the systems and tools that have been working, you grab the ones that fit your caseload, and you walk out with two or three things you can actually use!
AAC
May office hours recap: practical AAC conversations with Cara Falade
Our May Office Hours with Cara Falade was full of thoughtful questions, practical AAC ideas, and the kind of real-world conversation that feels hard to fit into a course.
AAC
Honoring Communicative Intent: What AAC Progress Actually Looks Like
Honoring communicative intent requires you to do something that goes against your clinical instinct. It requires that you stop measuring accuracy and start measuring initiation.
AAC
How to Run a 20 Minute AAC Training for Teachers and Paras
Your goal is not to turn a classroom teacher into an AAC expert. Your goal is to give them enough to feel safe enough to try once.
AAC
What to Say When a Teacher Says “AAC Just Isn’t Working for This Kid”
These conversations can be hard, and how you respond makes a huge difference.