Wrapping up the summer

It's been a fast summer. It always is. I always think that I am going to have so much extra time to think about kids, evaluate and reevaluate by therapy "plan" or roadmap, analyze my approaches to working with children and overall try to learn as much as possible. I have absolutely conquered the last goal on my list. 

I've done more professional development this summer than I ever have before in one summer. Even the free options are happening more and more than I've ever seen before. Last week was the SLP Summit.  I haven't gotten to watch all of the presentations, but with the replays being available until August, I will be able to say I've watched all of them very soon. I've completed at least half and they've been outstanding! The "Making Confident Decisions When Treating Childhood Apraxia of Speech" with  Jennie Bjorem M.A. CCC-SLP was extremely informative. She mentioned there was even more FREE online training for the DTTC technique, so I went on the hunt for that training. WOWZA!!! It's FREE also. I know she said so, but Free?? You can find more information here. It's a 4.5 hour training and well worth the time! You can also access it at the link below. 

https://www.utdallas.edu/calliercenter/events/CAS/

In additions to that type of professional development, I've been trying to learn as much as possible about the world of Teachers Pay Teachers and sharing the resources that I feel have helped me the most. Jennifer Bradley at Speech Therapy Plans and Sell on TPT has been incredible with her different challenges through the summer and she is a wealth of information. My brain has been swimming with goals and plans and meeting those goals and plans all summer long. I'm not going to lie, at one point, I was overwhelmed, but I stuck with it and now I couldn't be more excited about the upcoming school year. 

So with that said, I'm excited to post a resource that I'm really looking forward to using in the upcoming school year. It is 10 seasonal monthly units of vocabulary for preschool and lower elementary students. I combined the summer months into one unit. It targets receptive identification (point to), expressive (naming), independent describing 5 attributes, and cards to help scaffold the student through describing in various ways with visual supports/prompts. PCS is a trademark of Tobii Dynavox LLC.  All rights reserved.  Used with permission



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Free Professional Development

Who knew???

 I certainly didn't. 

A year ago or so, I learned about the free online conference SLP Summit. I've been participating in this great free professional development through the SLP Summit this past week. They've all been great! I was a little late signing on to the webinar on CAS last night. I'd like to go back and listen to her presentation again. They are available through August 8th, I believe. If you pay an administrative fee, they will report your time to ASHA, but even if you don't, you can still print the certificates and use the hours (CMH hours) towards your 30 hours of professional development. 

Anyway back to the CAS presentation. Jennie Bjorem, M.A. CCC-SLP was the speaker and you quickly realize how passionate she is about this topic as well as how much she loves her students. She spoke about more free online training so I went to look for these resources and I found this free training that can also be reported to the ASHA registry. I'm excited to get started and wanted to share the resource with others. I'm not sure if this was the one she was referring to, but it looks like a great opportunity! 

https://www.utdallas.edu/calliercenter/events/CAS/

This is helping me gear up for the school year. I'm always a little sad that the summer is over, but the beginning of a new school year is always so exciting that those feelings always beat out the feelings of sadness. I hope it's the same for you!

Stacey

Woohooo IEP Internal Audit Day!!!

This has been my day today. No, I am not wanting sympathy. 😊 I actually somewhat enjoy it. I want to do my best to write quality IEPs without mistakes. Sometimes though in the craziness of the school year I need a little extra help to guide myself through checking and rechecking to make sure it's ready. So, I helped at the central office doing an internal audit of some of the IEPs turned in at the end of the school year.

This checklist covers more than what the current internal audit is looking at, I just like to cover all of my bases. If you think it could be helpful to you as well it's FREE at my TPT store.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/IEP-Paperwork-Self-Audit-3918084?utm_source=Instagram&utm_campaign=IEP%20audit%20post

I think I've brushed up on my IEP review skills enough for today and am going to go enjoy the 100+ temperatures here in Kansas!! 💙