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• Storybook Guide- Dear Zoo by: Rod Campbell Fig 1. Cover photo from Dear Zoo by R. Campbell, 1982, Macmillan Children’s Books.Length: 18 pagesMost of us would agree that reading and looking at books can...
  May 18, 2026 Storybook Guide- Dear Zoo by: Rod Campbell
• From CF to CCCs: What to Know After Your Clinical Fellowship Year Congratulations, you did it! You have gotten all the hours required (and maybe a few extra) and submitted your paperwork to ASHA to start the process of...
  May 8, 2026 From CF to CCCs: What to Know After Your Clinical Fellowship Year
• Making the Most of Field Day Field days can be such an exciting break for students who have persevered and have done hard work throughout the school year. They are full of movement, fun,...
  April 24, 2026 Making the Most of Field Day
• Understanding Different Areas of Language What is Language?Speech-language pathologists work across many areas of communication. While most people are familiar with “speech,” language is broader and...
  April 24, 2026 Understanding Different Areas of Language
• Identifying Speech Sound Disorders When SLPs complete a speech sound evaluation with a client, there are many different moving pieces. One of them is to determine whether a speech sound disorder...
  April 15, 2026 Identifying Speech Sound Disorders
• Avoiding End-of-Year Burnout: Tips for School-Based SLPs Avoiding End-of-Year Burnout: Tips for School-Based SLPsAs the end of the school year approaches, many school-based SLPs find themselves navigating a perfect...
  April 15, 2026 Avoiding End-of-Year Burnout: Tips for School-Based SLPs
• Storybook Guide- We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen Fig 1. Cover art by Helen Oxenbury for We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen, Walker Books, 1993, Front cover.Length: 40 pagesAnother one of my personal...
  March 31, 2026 Storybook Guide- We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen
• Using Sensory Bins to Support Speech and Language Sensory bins are often regarded highly for developing a child's fine motor skills, but in speech therapy, they can also be a very effective tool for targeting...
  March 25, 2026 Using Sensory Bins to Support Speech and Language
• Why Consistency Matters in Speech Therapy Consistency in speech therapy isn’t just helpful; it’s essential, especially for children who may not experience stability at home. For many students, school...
  March 17, 2026 Why Consistency Matters in Speech Therapy
• Click into Teletherapy Websites Need new ideas for telehealth sessions? Well, look no further! Check out these interactive and innovative websites that are designed to keep students focused...
  March 10, 2026 Click into Teletherapy Websites
• Using Easter Eggs to Target Therapy Goals: Speech "Hoppy" Spring! Holidays and seasonal activities provide great opportunities to address your child's goals from speech therapy, whether you are working on...
  March 2, 2026 Using Easter Eggs to Target Therapy Goals: Speech
• Five Organization Tips To Maximize Your School Day As an SLP, your school day can be a whirlwind of activity, juggling students, assessments, therapy sessions, and administrative tasks. To ensure that you make...
  February 27, 2026 Five Organization Tips To Maximize Your School Day
• Staying Plugged In to Evidence-Based Practice Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) is a term that many of us thought a lot about during our time as students, but how about now as practicing clinicians? It can be...
  February 23, 2026 Staying Plugged In to Evidence-Based Practice
• Seen, Heard, Supported: Why Representation in Speech Therapy Matters During MLK Week, I read a book about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to some of my students and incorporated it into our speech and language goals. As I was reading...
  February 16, 2026 Seen, Heard, Supported: Why Representation in Speech Therapy Matters
• Love is In The Air: Creating a Valentine's Theme for Speech Therapy Holidays provide meaningful opportunities to engage students in therapy while making learning enjoyable. Valentine’s Day, in particular, offers many creative...
  February 9, 2026 Love is In The Air: Creating a Valentine's Theme for Speech Therapy
• Working with students who have ADHD What is ADHD?ADHD is a medical condition where the brain develops differently in ways that affect a child's executive function skills. These are thinking...
  January 26, 2026 Working with students who have ADHD
• When School Closes but Learning Doesn’t Stop School closures happen. Snow days, holiday breaks, unexpected weather, or calendar changes can disrupt routines quickly, especially for students who rely on...
  January 20, 2026 When School Closes but Learning Doesn’t Stop
• Crafting Clarity: Curating Vision for the Busy SLP OK, so you have your cute vision board, fitness goals, and maybe even a budget planner. You tell yourself you have a plan for the year, but do you really know...
  January 12, 2026 Crafting Clarity: Curating Vision for the Busy SLP
• Five ways to use "I Spy" in therapy I Spy books are excellent tools for language therapy because they engage kids while targeting a range of speech and language skills. You can also make the...
  January 5, 2026 Five ways to use "I Spy" in therapy
• A Day in the Life of a CF A Day in the Life of a CF!I started working with Sidekick this past July. I am working at 3 different schools this year and have loved how everyday/week has...
  December 29, 2025 A Day in the Life of a CF
• Storybook Guide: Go Dog Go We all know that books are an EXCELLENT means of targeting therapeutic goals and supporting your child's overall development. One of my favorite books to...
  December 22, 2025 Storybook Guide: Go Dog Go
• Storybook Guide- Old MacDonald Had a Farm For targeting literacy in speech sessions, whether you have speech goals, language goals, or both, I LOVE the interactive "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" sing along...
  December 15, 2025 Storybook Guide- Old MacDonald Had a Farm
• Covering Another Teammate’s Caseload? Create, Collaborate, and Communicate Your Way to Success If you’ve ever been asked to cover another teammate’s caseload—especially at a school you haven’t visited before—you know it can feel a bit nerve-wracking. You...
  December 8, 2025 Covering Another Teammate’s Caseload? Create, Collaborate, and Communicate Your Way to Success
• 5 Strategies to Increase Generalization of Speech Therapy Goals in School Settings 5 Strategies to Increase Generalization of Speech Therapy Goals in School SettingsGeneralization is a key component of success for speech therapy. While a...
  November 24, 2025 5 Strategies to Increase Generalization of Speech Therapy Goals in School Settings
• Decoding the Acronyms: What SLPs Really Mean If you've ever sat down with an SLP (in a clinical or school setting), you may have stumbled along various letters combined in a way that you have never seen....
  November 18, 2025 Decoding the Acronyms: What SLPs Really Mean
• Gobble Up Gratitude! Exciting Thanksgiving Reads for Kids November is here and Thanksgiving is just around the corner! Here are five children's books you can share with your students to celebrate thankfulness this...
  November 10, 2025 Gobble Up Gratitude! Exciting Thanksgiving Reads for Kids
• Top 5 SLP Apps Although electronic devices are not necessary for speech therapy sessions, sometimes they can be an amazing resource to have on hand. Here are five of my...
  November 3, 2025 Top 5 SLP Apps
• Every voice deserves to be heard As a speech-language pathologist working in schools that serve diverse communities, I’ve had the privilege of hearing the distinct voices of children from all...
  October 28, 2025 Every voice deserves to be heard
• Tell Me Three Animals: Naming Tasks and Why They're Important A strong vocabulary is crucial for kids to be successful in and out of school.A good vocabulary helps with a variety of things from reading to social skills to...
  October 21, 2025 Tell Me Three Animals: Naming Tasks and Why They're Important
• Falling for Speech: Using Fall Themed Books in Therapy Fall is the perfect time to vamp up your therapy materials and approach to pique your students’ interests while providing engaging activities! While there are...
  October 13, 2025 Falling for Speech: Using Fall Themed Books in Therapy
• Wednesday Win: Sign Language My Wednesday Win occurred during one of my recent therapy sessions when I was pushing in to the CDC classroom. My student uses total communication, mostly...
  October 6, 2025 Wednesday Win: Sign Language
• All About the GFTA-3 The Goldman Fristoe Test of Articulation- 3rd Edition (also known as the GFTA-3) is a commonly used assessment that “measures speech sound abilities in the...
  September 29, 2025 All About the GFTA-3
• When Sessions Don't Go as Planned You've prepped for your speech therapy session with a student. You've picked out your therapy materials, have your goals for the session mapped out, and are...
  September 15, 2025 When Sessions Don't Go as Planned
• Tips for Administering Different Assessments When giving an assessment, it is helpful to know as much about the client/student as possible before the actual testing day.What areas are you testing in?If...
  September 2, 2025 Tips for Administering Different Assessments
• School SLP Starter Kit When I first started as a Clinical Fellow in the schools, I had no idea what I needed to buy or have on hand to start off. I remember going to stores and...
  August 25, 2025 School SLP Starter Kit
• 10 Tips to Stay Grounded, Recharge, and Prevent Burnout While an immensely rewarding career, pediatric speech therapy requires a truckload of patience and energy output every day. It takes constant enthusiasm, time...
  August 25, 2025 10 Tips to Stay Grounded, Recharge, and Prevent Burnout
• Let's get Organized - Beginning of the Year (part 2) Once you have your excel spreadsheet completed with all of your due dates, it's time to get your data system ready. There are many options out there:SLP...
  August 11, 2025 Let's get Organized - Beginning of the Year (part 2)
• Let's get Organized - Beginning of the Year To Do List (part 1) Summer is gone and school has started again. It's time to prep your caseload and get everything ready for this school year. We aren't talking about scheduling,...
  August 4, 2025 Let's get Organized - Beginning of the Year To Do List (part 1)
• A Day In The Life - Sidekick SLP In The Knoxville Clinic Here is a day in my life as a Sidekick SLP in the Knoxville Clinic!I first arrive at the clinic about 15 minutes before I see my first client at 8:30 am. I...
  July 14, 2025 A Day In The Life - Sidekick SLP In The Knoxville Clinic
• CF Experience: Continuing to Learn and Grow My CF experience has taught me so much more than I expected. Once graduated, I felt I was done with learning for the most part. While our field will always be...
  June 30, 2025 CF Experience: Continuing to Learn and Grow
• Addressing Educators' Knowledge Gaps: How SLPs Can Support AAC Integration Speech-language pathologists are essential advocates for students who rely on AAC devices. These devices act as a lifeline for students with communication...
  June 16, 2025 Addressing Educators' Knowledge Gaps: How SLPs Can Support AAC Integration
• The Shared CF Experience- Kicking Imposter Syndrome The first day of my CF, I sat with the stack of papers containing teacher's schedules and began brainstorming how I was going to get all 70-something kiddos...
  June 9, 2025 The Shared CF Experience- Kicking Imposter Syndrome
• My Five Takeaways as a CF Starting a new job can be daunting, especially in your first year as a clinical fellow. Here are five things I learned throughout my CF year that have helped...
  June 2, 2025 My Five Takeaways as a CF
• Therapy Wins: Growing Together I have been working with Sidekick as a CF-SLP since August. There have been some challenging days and sessions, but overall, in the past few months I have seen...
  May 2, 2025 Therapy Wins: Growing Together
• Building Summer Language Skills: What Parents Can Do Building Summer Language Skills: What Parents Can Do Summer break is full of possibilities—and it’s the perfect time to boost your child’s language development...
  May 2, 2025 Building Summer Language Skills: What Parents Can Do
• Treatment Activity: Sensory Bins Something I have found to be so versatile and fun to use in therapy this year are sensory bins!! I have used sensory bins to target articulation and language....
  May 2, 2025 Treatment Activity: Sensory Bins
• Day in the Life of a Sidekick SLP Hi! My name is Katelynn, and I live in Knoxville, Tennessee. I work in Cumberland County Schools, which is in Crossville, Tennessee. My day usually starts...
  May 2, 2025 Day in the Life of a Sidekick SLP
• There was an Old Lady who Facilitated Language Development: Ways to Target Language Goals with Picture Books Providing exposure to picture books to improve reading, literacy, and language skills is an essential part of the SLP scope of practice, especially when...
  April 28, 2025 There was an Old Lady who Facilitated Language Development: Ways to Target Language Goals with Picture Books
• Shared Book Reading- Caregiver Impact Have you ever had trouble incorporating parents or caregivers into early intervention language therapy?Shared book reading may be an intervention to introduce!...
  April 22, 2025 Shared Book Reading- Caregiver Impact
• Treatment Activity: Sticker Sheets One of my new favorite things to use in therapy is sticker sheets!! My mom bought me some to give my kiddos for Christmas presents, but I decided to use them...
  April 14, 2025 Treatment Activity: Sticker Sheets
• Managing Difficult Behaviors in Speech Therapy: Supporting Children from Challenging Home Environments Children experiencing difficult home lives often face unique challenges that can present as difficult behaviors during speech therapy sessions. These behaviors...
  April 7, 2025 Managing Difficult Behaviors in Speech Therapy: Supporting Children from Challenging Home Environments
• April Resources Here is a list of resources available to use that are perfect for the month of April:Articulation:1.Articulation B Polka Dot Egg Worksheets For Easter |...
  April 1, 2025 April Resources