Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
Why "work-life balance" is unattainable (and what to do instead)
Episode 73
Therapists and teachers (and anyone else in a “helping people” profession) always have to take care of OTHER people…which is hard to do if you’re bur…
3 years, 7 months ago
Don't find your passion, find your sh*t sandwich
Episode 72
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 …
3 years, 7 months ago
DLD, CAPD, dyslexia, hyperlexia and supporting literacy
Episode 71
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…
3 years, 7 months ago
How to make syntax instruction useful for the real world
Episode 70
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 therapist…
3 years, 8 months ago
What’s really causing “topic maintenance” issues?
Episode 69
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 …
3 years, 8 months ago
Why I don't use language therapy goal banks
Episode 68
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 cours…
3 years, 8 months ago
Defining Vocabulary: It's more complicated than you think
Episode 67
When people ask me where they should start in language therapy, I usually say they should start by building vocabulary. That usually results in a cou…
3 years, 8 months ago
Language therapy: Managing info overload and misinformation
Episode 66
Back when I first started practicing, I found language therapy to be super overwhelming.
There were so many peer-reviewed articles, books, and semina…
3 years, 9 months ago
Rerelease: Burnout, boundaries, and systems
Episode 65
In episode 65, I take a break from the regular content to talk about burnout and boundaries; and specifically how I use systems to help me set health…
3 years, 9 months ago
Are kids ready to work on complex sentences in early elementary school?
Episode 64
In episode 64, I share a Q & A from the Language Therapy Advance Foundations members’ group about working on complex sentences with students in early…
3 years, 9 months ago