There are a lot of challenges that we face as therapists; but not all of them need to prevent us from delivering quality services.By facing our problems head on, often we can mitigate them or eliminate them completely.This doesnt happen from avoiding o

When people talk about assets, theyre often thinking about personal finance. Theyre talking about things like real estate, index funds, crypto and other things aimed at giving you some kind of return on your investment.But I want to talk about how ther

Part of our service to our clients comes back to following evidence-based practices. In the era of social media, that also means we need to sift through a massive amount of inaccurate information and help our clients do the same. It’s your job as a leader

One of the most common questions I get is What am I supposed to do in therapy with students/clients?Many of my readers want to know what strategies and techniques they need to do in therapy in order to help move their students forward.Theyre very focu

Therapists and teachers (and anyone else in a helping people profession) always have to take care of OTHER peoplewhich is hard to do if youre burnt out all the time.But most of the advice theyre given about self-care and achieving a work-life ba

If you’re a therapist or a teacher, you know there are a lot of obstacles getting in the way of providing quality services. Staffing issues. Lack of time. Lack of funding. Big caseloads. Legal mandates that impact service delivery.It’s an incredibly burea

Therapists and educators supporting K-12 literacy have a lot of diagnoses and labels to navigate, and some of them are controversial. In some debates, the diagnosis itself is in question; Central Auditory Processing Disorder being one example. With hyperl

Schools often get criticized for not teaching enough “real world” skills to kids, and there’s a lot of truth to that statement. Most of the therapists I work with are worried that what they do in therapy isn’t functional enough to transfer to day-to-day s

Topic maintenance is a skill I’ve seen on many language therapy IEPs in the category of “pragmatic language”, but often it’s a surface-level symptom of something else. When we’re talking about “topic maintenance” we’re often referring to someone’s ability

I get a lot of questions about how to write language therapy goals…I ALSO get a lot of questions about whether I offer goal banks in any of my courses. I do offer a version of a “goal bank” in Language Therapy Advance Foundations, my course that teaches S