Stacey Parks, SLP: 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

Seasonal Vocabulary Targets - Defining and Describing

The best part of this is that for the first 48 hours, you can get this resource for 50% off!!! Click here to get to my store while it's still 50% off.

Stacey Parks, SLP

Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Wrapping up the summer

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