The Game Changer: A Career in Teletherapy
SLP Series with Kristin Martinez As a school-based speech-language pathologist (SLP), you are doing meaningful, impactful, and necessary work. With the number of students requiring evaluation and direct therapy services continuing to grow, it’s very clear that SLPs are crucial members of every district education team. But consider how your time is utilized in your […]
Five reasons for a teletherapy career
Take back control of your life–with teletherapy. Teletherapy offers a powerful career choice to let you practice at the top of your license, with flexibility in scheduling to adjust your caseload up or down as needed, and the ability to serve a broad diversity of students, within a supportive community of professional colleagues. Let’s explore […]
7 Ways to Overcome Disruptive Behaviors Subverting the Therapy Session
The growing popularity of teletherapy, while an extremely welcome development, has presented a whole range of challenges for therapists. Often the most difficult is how to react when children misbehave during the session. When things don’t go as planned, it is important to understand the reasons behind the child’s difficult behavior. It’s possible that the […]
How to Run a Successful Private Practice Online
If you’re like many therapists, you stopped seeing clients in person when the COVID-19 pandemic started. Maybe you were just getting started in practice or maybe you’ve been practicing in person for years. But with the challenges presented by COVID-19, therapists everywhere were faced with taking their practice online or pushing pause on private practice. […]
Turbocharge Your Student’s Therapy: The 5 Secrets to Effective Praise
The Breakthrough Study It used to be that, in traditional cultures around the world, parents would avoid praise. They were concerned that excessive praise would inflate the ego, making their children overconfident. But today, things have changed dramatically. There is a growing body of research that finds praise can be an effective way for parents, […]
Stuck? 5 Proven Techniques to Get your Client to Become More Talkative
Effective communication is at the core of the client-therapist relationship. If you’re having trouble getting through to a client, or have hit an impasse in your attempts to bond and communicate with your clients, don’t despair; there are several strategies you can try. 1. Be Welcoming Particularly at first, the therapy session can feel a […]
Therapists: 5 Easy & Effective Ways to Build Rapport with the Client
Why Rapport Matters in Therapy Building rapport with your clients is perhaps the most important of clinical skills to possess. It is estimated that 40% of clients choose another therapist due to the quality of the therapeutic relationship. Some studies have even suggested that therapeutic rapport is a more critical factor in the client’s progress […]
Client’s Progress Stalled? Your 5 Keys to Getting Unstuck in Therapy
Is Getting Stuck the Beginning or the End? Your clients come to you with high hopes to eliminate or at least reduce the deficit from which they are suffering. So what do you do when a client stops making progress in therapy and it seems like your sessions are going nowhere? While it’s a common […]
How to Answer The 3 Toughest Interview Questions For Therapy Jobs
Your Most Precarious Phase in the Job Search If there’s any phase in the job search process where candidates slip up the most, it’s the interview phase, said Kathy Northamer, a district president at the Robert Half staffing agency in Minneapolis. “That’s why it’s crucial to prepare answers to potential questions before you enter the […]
8 Ways to Protect Your Voice When You Must Be Speaking the Entire Day
Are You Hoarse? Hoarseness usually indicates that there has been some serious vocal misuse. Fortunately, it’s only a temporary condition that results from straining the vocal folds or “cords.” And yet, it can become serious if there is chronic abuse or misuse of the voice which is likely to occur when one’s voice is used […]
3 Teletherapy Tips to Help Your Work With the Deaf & Hard of Hearing
Those Who Suffer in Silence People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing (DHH) are rarely considered to be people who suffer from a physical disability. Unlike a blind person who walks with the support of a cane or someone who uses a wheelchair, people who have difficulty hearing or cannot hear at all are […]
4 Easy and Effective Ways to Teach Social Skills to Children
Benefits of Teaching Social Skills to Children It is widely understood that social skills learning increases a child’s positive behavior and reduces negative behavior. It effectively prevents a variety of problems such as substance abuse, violence, truancy, and bullying. Alternatively, social skills learning fosters emotional health, academic success, health, and overall well-being. Researchers from Penn […]