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Speech and Language Kids Podcast
The Speech and Language Kids Podcast is BACK and better than ever! Learn how to treat communication challenges in children without losing yourself in the process. Speech-language pathologist Carrie Clark shares her best tips, tricks, and strategies to help children improve their communication sk...
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Voice/Resonance Curriculums for Speech Therapy
Our voice and resonance curriculums provide a clear, structured approach for helping children and teens improve their vocal quality, projection, and r...
Fluency Curriculums for Speech Therapy
Our fluency curriculums provide a clear, organized framework for helping children who stutter or have other disfluencies develop the tools they need t...
Social Communication Curriculums for Speech Therapy
Our social communication curriculums provide a clear, structured pathway for teaching social skills in a logical progression — from foundational inter...
Functional Communication Curriculums for Speech Therapy
Give children the tools to express themselves — even if they’re just starting to find their voice.
Our functional communication curriculums guid...
Language Curriculums for Speech Therapy
Stop spending hours hunting for language activities that only partly fit your students’ needs.
Our comprehensive language curriculums give you r...
Speech Sound Curriculums for Speech Therapy
Stop piecing together random articulation activities. Our comprehensive speech sound curriculums give you ready-to-use therapy plans that make it easy...
Special Announcement!
In this special announcement episode of the Speech and Language Kids Podcast, Carrie Clark shares exciting news about what’s happening this summer ins...
Announcing: Summer Camps and Teams Program
In this short and exciting update episode, Carrie Clark announces two brand new virtual summer camp experiences inside the Speech and Language Kids Hu...
How to Do Speech Therapy at Home
Do you want to help your child improve their communication skills at home but aren’t sure where to start? Whether you’re on a waiting list for service...
Teaching Children to Follow Directions
Does your child (or student) struggle to follow directions? You’re not alone! In this episode of the Speech and Language Kids Podcast, Carrie Clark, S...
Building Therapy Plans for Children with AAC
Do you work with children who use communication devices or systems to express themselves? Whether it’s a high-tech talker, sign language, or picture b...
Cycles Approach for Language – Treating Multiple Areas of Language Simultaneously
Cycles Approach for Language: Treating Multiple Areas of Language Simultaneously
When a child is struggling in more than one area of language, h...
Ahmad’s Story – Childhood Apraxia of Speech and the Motor Speech Pathway
In this episode, Carrie shares the story of a sweet 5-year-old boy named Ahmad (name changed for privacy) and his journey with childhood apraxia of sp...
Arianna’s Story: Preschool Speech and Language
How do you know where to start with a preschooler who’s hard to understand? In today’s episode, I’m walking you through a real-life case study of a sw...
Speech/Language Therapy 101: Back to Basics for SLPs and Caregivers
Are you looking for the simplest, most effective way to teach communication skills to children and teens?
Well, search no farther!
I’m spe...
The Teletherapy Playbook: Proven Strategies for Faster Progress in Virtual Speech Sessions
It’s no secret that teletherapy speech/language therapy services soared during the pandemic.
Telepractice use among SLPs jumped from just 3.9% p...
A Therapy Pathway for Frontal and Lateral Speech Errors (aka “Lisps”)
Today we’re talking about “lisps”.
But many professionals are moving away from using the term lisp because it often carries a negative or stigma...
From Chaos to Clarity: Why One-Off Activities Are Failing Your Therapy Sessions
You spend all evening scouring the internet for the perfect activity for little Timmy.
You print.
You cut.
You laminate.
You v...
Speech/Language Progress Monitoring Tools Now Available…Free!
Well, the flu has hit my house!
Instead of a full podcast episode today, I’m giving you a quick update about our new progress monitoring tools l...
When Should Children be Able to Say Certain Sounds? (And How Can We Help?)
One of the top questions I get is about whether or not a child should be saying certain speech sounds.
Let me tell you, there is a WIDE range of...
Listen in on our Live Speech Therapy Planning Call
On today’s episode of the Speech and Language Kids Podcast, I’m taking you inside our members-only area!
Listen in as we run one of our monthly...
From Echolalia and Scripting to Original Speech: Top Strategies for Gestalt Language Processors
“My child isn’t talking yet but he can sing songs or repeat lines/scripts from movies.”
Or…
“My child simply repeats what everyone else sa...
AAC Apps and How to Use Them (in 2025)
Augmentative/Alternative Communication (AAC) allows a child who can’t speak to let us know what they want or need.
It reduces frustration and in...
The Future of Speech and Language Kids (and our Profession)
There is a lot of uncertainty in the world of education right now.
And even before talks of reducing funding for education, speech-language prof...
Speech Therapy Ideas for Functional Communication: Communicating Wants and Needs
How do you help a child who can’t speak to tell you what they need?
What about a little one who has meltdowns and tantrums but can’t tell you wh...
The Cycles Therapy Approach for Children who are Very Hard to Understand
If you haven’t tried the Cycles Approach to phonology therapy yet, you’re missing out!
This is an amazing therapy method that is especially desi...
Using AI to Generate Custom Materials for Speech/Language Therapy
Imagine being able to snap your fingers and instantly create a 3rd grade reading passage that’s all about Minecraft and is packed full of /r/ words.
Sensory and Movement Ideas for Better Participation and Behavior
Little Alex comes into your therapy space like a Tasmanian Devil!
He hasn’t stopped moving since he stepped foot in the door and he’s touched ev...
No-Prep Ideas for Language Therapy
It’s No-Prep December and that means that I’m challenging you NOT to prep any therapy activities for the whole month.
But how do we do that for...
No-Prep Group Speech/Language Therapy Ideas
When you’re a speech-language pathologist with a caseload of 70 or more kids, group therapy is a necessary evil.
Sometimes it feels like group s...
How to NOT Take Data during Speech/Language Therapy
Data or it didn’t happen, right??
As speech-language professionals, it is crucial that we collect data to know exactly how our clients are doing...
No-Prep December Challenge! I Challenge You to Do Less
Do you think you could go a full month without prepping any activities for therapy?
Would you like to try?
December is a notoriously busy...
Set up a Folder System for Effortless Speech Therapy Sessions
Your students come into your therapy space and they know what to do.
They grab their speech folders from the bin by the door.
They walk to...
The Way of the Unstressed Speechie: Speech Therapy without Tears
If you’re a speech-language pathologist, SLPA, SALT or some other alphabet soup doing speech therapy with kids…
And you’re stressed out…
A...
Why Use AAC for Toddlers or Children?
AAC devices are augmentative/alternative communication systems that allow a person to communicate with those around them without speaking. There are...
Why Do Speech Therapists Group Children Together?
In this episode of the Speech and Language Kids Podcast, speech-language pathologist Carrie Clark discusses the benefits of groups speech therapy for...
The Speech Therapist’s Role in Reading and Writing in Children and Adolescents
In this episode of The Speech and Language Kids Podcast, speech-language pathologist Carrie Clark discusses what speech therapists can do to help with...
Hypernasality Speech Therapy: Treatment Activities
Hypernasality occurs when a child speaks with too much nasal resonance.
Airflow tends to be directed up into the nasal cavity during speech inst...
Stuttering Therapy Techniques | Exercises and Activities
How can we help children and teens who stutter?
There are many speech therapy techniques and exercises that we can use to help individuals speak...
Apraxia of Speech: Speech Therapy Activities for CAS
Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) is a motor speech disorder where a child knows what they want to say but the sounds won’t come up correctly.
W...