Language & Literacy Connection and More!

Present Notes:

On this episode of SLP Espresso Speak, Hallie chats with Tamara Anderson—a speech-language pathologist, schooling specialist, and passionate literacy advocate—in regards to the highly effective connection between language and literacy in our remedy rooms. Tamara shares her journey into literacy specialization, breaks down the distinction between what we do as SLPs versus what academics do, and affords sensible suggestions for assessments, partaking reluctant readers, and supporting multilingual learners. You may additionally discover ways to make literacy remedy enjoyable with books, video games, and culturally responsive practices that honor the entire little one. Whether or not you are questioning in case you’re “doing it proper” with literacy or on the lookout for contemporary concepts to carry into your classes, this dialog is stuffed with perception, actual discuss, and reminders that connection all the time comes earlier than knowledge assortment.

This is what we realized:

• SLPs use a therapeutic language lens – concentrating on morphology, semantics, and syntax, not curriculum requirements. 
• Create your individual casual probes for vocabulary, instructions, inferences, and verbal reasoning. 
• Engagement is every little thing – use themed books, video games, and enthusiasm to hook reluctant readers. 
• Moral evaluation requires case histories and bilingual sources for multilingual learners. 
• Connection over knowledge assortment – know your college students as entire folks, not simply IEP targets.

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00:00:00 Hallie: Hey there, SLP mates, it’s Hallie right here popping in with one of the best information ever. My new ebook, Secondary SLP Roadmap, is formally out there. In the event you’ve ever wished for a transparent, sensible information for working with center and highschool college students, that is it. It’s full of actual tales, ready-to-use methods, and instruments you should use instantly. Seize your copy now, examine the hyperlink within the present notes, or search Secondary SLP Roadmap on Amazon, after which in fact, please do me a favor, when you find yourself studying it, snap an image and tag me on Instagram, @speechtimefun. I like seeing the place you are diving in, the speech room, the sofa, ready in a health care provider’s ready room, all of the locations. All proper, prepared? Go seize your copy and let’s make secondary speech really feel doable and enjoyable. 

00:00:56 Hallie: Welcome to SLP Espresso Speak, the podcast designed completely for speech language pathologists who work with older college students, grades 4 by way of 12. I’m your host, Hallie Sherman, your SLP behind Speech Time Enjoyable, the Speech Retreat Convention, and the SLP Elevate Membership, and I am thrilled to carry you conversations, methods, and insights that offers you the jolt of inspiration that you simply want. Whether or not you are tuning in throughout your morning commute, on a break in between classes, and even throughout a well-deserved leisure time, I’m right here for you each week. Let’s do that, SLPs.

00:01:36 Hallie: Hey, hey, and welcome to a different episode of SLP Espresso Speak. I do know you guys love speaking language and literacy, and I do know you are going to love my visitor right here as we speak. Tamara, welcome to the present.

00:01:50 Tamara: Thanks a lot for having me, I am excited to affix your podcast as we speak.

00:01:53 Hallie: Inform everybody listening slightly bit about your self and your journey to what you might be doing as we speak, today.

00:02:00 Tamara: Definitely, I’m a speech-language pathologist, licensed in Georgia, and I’ve lived in Georgia for a few years. That is primarily the place I’ve offered companies. I am additionally an schooling specialist. I’m captivated with not simply language remedy, however literacy. So a few years in the past, over 10 years in the past, I did some further coaching by way of Georgia State within the space of literacy, and I’ve all the time added on so many various skilled growth and structured literacy, Orton-Gillingham, numerous different coaching with dyslexia and so forth during the last 10 years. That is been my space of specialization. And general, simply youngsters and adolescents, extra so the youthful youngsters, preschool by way of grade 5, with studying disabilities and autism, ADHD, and so forth. Govt functioning, all these issues overlap. That is undoubtedly one thing I am captivated with, remedying these issues and so forth in youngsters.

00:02:48 Hallie: Superior. So cool. For these listening and weren’t certain, what’s an academic specialist?

00:02:54 Tamara: Sure, so mainly, it bridges… it isn’t a instructor. I did not go to highschool for instructing. It is simply extra coaching that I did in curriculum and instruction and differentiated instruction. As therapists, we do that every one the way in which. However a few years in the past, I used to be a medically primarily based speech therapist. So after I made that change to highschool setting, I am like, I would like slightly bit extra coaching. I am all the time like, how can I improve? So mainly, you concentrate on assessments, diagnostics, curriculum, however extra so English language arts curriculum. Do not ask me about math. I can’t do algebra, geometry. I have never performed that in 20 years. However math will not be my factor, language arts, literacy. So curriculum so far as that division.

00:03:33 Hallie: For these listening and really feel like, you understand, they by no means know in the event that they’re appearing like a tutor or a studying specialist and what’s their function with literacy, what would you say to them?

00:03:44 Tamara: Positively speech therapists, we’re specialists and we’re consultants in speech articulation, phonology, neurological issues, studying to some extent with a language lens. So I’m not a instructor, no diss to academics or, you understand, that regard. However undoubtedly we use our lens so far as the diagnostics that we do, as a result of we’re taking a look at issues. What’s completely different or variations? Now they are saying studying variations and so forth. We’re selecting out what are the kid’s strengths, what are the areas of wants? And we’re offering specialised instruction that is completely different than basic schooling academics. We shouldn’t be doing the very same factor. We help what they do as a result of language is the underpinnings of all of that. However we’re specialists. So it’s undoubtedly completely different.

00:04:28 Hallie: Are you able to go additional? So what are the academics doing versus what ought to we be doing?

00:04:33 Tamara: So the academics in ELA, they’re instructing requirements. Georgia has requirements. New York has requirements. California has requirements. There’s similarities and variations with their curriculum calendar, however they’re instructing regardless of the AKS, poetry, decoding phrases, you understand, no matter they’re instructing. They usually’re following that calendar and the completely different genres of writing and studying and literature.

00:04:55 Tamara: We’re taking a look at morphology, semantics, syntax, these particular areas. The youthful youngsters who’re engaged on articulation and phonological issues and processing. We’re instructing on to or offering therapeutic instruction on to IEP targets and aims in case you’re within the faculty system. And for these in non-public observe, your general targets, whether or not they’re three-month targets, six-month targets, nonetheless you write the targets. So it is associated, however our strategy is completely different. Nonetheless evidence-based, however it’s simply completely different in our supply of companies. And we do the diagnostics. We all know the way to do thorough assessments.

00:05:33 Hallie: Talking of which, what are some assessments that you simply wish to make the most of to find out whether or not or not you have to be engaged on literacy-based targets?

00:05:41 Tamara: Yeah, so relying on the age of the scholar, in fact, you understand, I am probably not doing the PLS and so forth now. I’ve extra of, you understand, after I say older, you understand, first grade, second grade, fifth grade. I truly just like the CELF. I like that it teases out, that you may get details about like recalling sentences, the language auditory reminiscence and the listening comprehension. I like that, the way it offers the great cut up between receptive and expressive language. 

00:06:05 Tamara: I actually like utilizing subtests of the CASL, not in its entirety. I like to tug out the semantic subtests and undoubtedly the tremendous linguistic. So the figurative language, non-literal language, these elements of it. I actually just like the CASL. I really feel prefer it offers good data for monolingual college students and typically with these bilingual college students, if they’ve command of English to a sure degree. My older college students, I would use subtests about just like the synonyms and the antonyms. I like that to corroborate with just like the phrase courses on the… phrase courses on the CELF. I do like that check.

00:06:40 Tamara: In fact, just like the check of narrative growth, the TILS, the check of built-in language and so forth. The CTOP in non-public, I do get the CTOP for phonological processing and I’ve my very own casual assessments. I do, you understand, and naturally, vocabulary. I like the MAVA for vocabulary, Montgomery Evaluation of Vocabulary Evaluation, you understand, old-fashioned PVVT.

00:07:04 Hallie: It looks as if you’ve gotten entry to all these completely different testing, like as a result of I do know within the faculties, I did not have the CASL in one of many faculties I used to be in. I had the CELF, I had the TOLD and did not have the check of narrative language. What sort of casual assessments would you advocate to probe additional if you did not have a few of these different instruments?

00:07:20 Tamara: Sure. So all the time select, like when you’ve got the OWLS, I am not a giant fan of the OWLS, however in case you simply wish to do the old fashioned and get listening and oral expression cut up, you are able to do that. Nonetheless, simply take into consideration huge image. You wish to know the way they pay attention and observe path. So you are able to do… write your… I’ve quite a lot of my very own probes which might be free and on the market, however you’ll be able to write your individual. Write 5 issues. A single, you understand, like following instructions, one step path, two step path, write a few probes for… can they determine qualitative ideas, take out an image description factor. Present me juicy, present me sticky, present me yellow, no matter, factors to the adjective, level to spatial ideas, underneath, subsequent to, behind. 

00:07:56 Tamara: So simply take into consideration the principle areas like following instructions, vocabulary, phrase relationships, you understand, and so forth, inferences, drawback fixing. You may simply form of do your fast little factor too, if you do not have all these assessments. Oh, I would like one thing for verbal reasoning. Take into consideration like a math phrase drawback with out the mathematics and say, little Johnny went to highschool and he had, you understand, eight apples and, you understand, simply make your individual. It does not should be lengthy. You may even make a probe of 10 questions and it simply hits on these key areas.

00:08:24 Hallie: I like that. And the way do you are taking this data after which decide what to focus on when it comes to like literacy and studying and issues like that?

00:08:32 Tamara: Yeah. So that you all the time assume huge image after which attempt to slim it down. So once you’re taking a look at an evaluation, okay, you probably did your evaluation and wow, this child has a 75 listening comprehension. We undoubtedly must work on auditory and language processing. You understand, so we take a look at that. If there is a rating drill out, oh, in remedy, I will have to make use of some fiction books with footage and so forth. That is why I like utilizing literacy image books Okay by way of 5. Nice old-fashioned approach to make use of to name it mentor texts. After which with out the images, if I simply learn these two to 3 sentences or 4 to 5 sentences, maintain out your arms, little Johnny. Are you able to do who it is about? What’s it about? The place, when, why? For the auditory language processing. 

00:09:12 Tamara: And an instance, you are given the evaluation. Oral expression is low. Oh, they form of might identify the vocabulary, however they can not clarify how the 2 phrases, degree one phrases or tier one phrases are related. That is how an apple and a banana are related. They’re free. That is a straightforward one. How, you understand, how is a sq. and a rectangle related? They’re shapes. How is winter much like fall? Nicely, in Georgia, they’re completely completely different as a result of Georgia is freezing within the winter and fall’s not that dangerous. You understand, they’re seasons, however they’re completely different as a result of the leaves fall off the tree. You simply get them to, you understand, you’re employed on the talents primarily based on that and getting them to broaden and have extra descriptive language. 

00:09:52 Tamara: If their oral expression expertise had been low on an evaluation, you concentrate on what’s practical. Youngsters must be taught to explain issues. Vocabulary is the muse for the content material areas throughout the board. I will work on that with this specific pupil in remedy in a therapeutic approach. It will tie into the curriculum as a result of evaluate and distinction science and social research, math throughout the topic areas. They are going to have to check genres. If I am engaged on in remedy, speech language principle, I inform my college students, it is like a technique class. It is remedy, however it’s like I inform them, you understand, in the event that they’re within the faculty, it is a class, proper? Such as you’re instructing. I am instructing the methods. You are going to apply this in your gen ed class or your small group particular wants class. If it is like a LD, you understand, dyslexia class, they’ve these in Georgia, you understand, you’ll be able to apply the talents that I am instructing you in your different class with all of the content material that your academics are doing, you understand.

00:10:43 Hallie: Have you ever ever had college students that simply hate books and hate studying and anytime you integrated literacy primarily based actions, they simply shut down?

00:10:54 Tamara: To be trustworthy, I feel simply because I am so excited – not on a regular basis. So I am like, no matter. However I do really feel like the way you current it to college students is so as a result of I adore it a lot when every month I’ve a show of all of the books, they’re actually enthusiastic about it. So I feel in case you are available in like boring, like that is, you understand, trash, then they don’t seem to be going to hate it. However my college students actually typically prefer it. 

00:11:13 Tamara: However there are occasions that I am doing just like the nonfiction passages like that is so boring that, you understand, however there are going to be instances the youngsters do not wish to do the books and stuff. So I’ve video games and various things that I do with them. I feel it is essential to do, whether or not it is a board recreation like Blurt or, you understand, I make my very own board video games. You may flip something right into a recreation like roll a cube, you understand, no matter. So I do combine it up. With the youthful youngsters, I all the time, you understand, crafts paired with it, songs. Typically I’ve completely different visible aids like I make PowerPoints or Google Slides and I do themes of the month. So I’ve like a PowerPoint or Google Slides for every month of actions and so forth. So there are some youngsters… I do not do a ebook each week. You understand what I imply? You do combine it up. 

00:11:52 Hallie: Do you’ve gotten any favourite books that you simply love to make use of? 

00:11:54 Tamara: Nicely, in fact, at the moment of 12 months, I like the old fashioned – I say old-fashioned, I have been doing this a very long time. Jan Brett, like Snow Bears, The Three Snow Bears, that’s like my favourite one proper now, Polar Bears, as a result of all the youngsters can try this from pre-Okay to the older youngsters on the older youngsters. So I like the Jan Brett collection, the Mitten and The Three Snow Bears for winter. There’s so many. Try my weblog. It was a weblog initially after which it is my web site, buildingsuccessfullives.com. I’ve tons of suggestions for every theme. So relying what it’s. And I do use quite a lot of for school-based remedy, quite a lot of non-fiction. I get quite a lot of these from scholastics about, you understand, the winter animals or, you understand, completely different subjects. 

00:12:35 Tamara: What I like Nationwide Geographic collection, I’ve quite a lot of the magazines for like, you understand, animals and locations. So I encourage speech language therapists, in case you’re at a college or non-public observe, attempt to get these sources, get your faculty to pay for that. It is simply enjoyable. The youngsters wish to flip by way of these. And if they do not wish to use the ebook, you can also make a recreation out of it. Put the little recreation board out after which you’ve gotten the playing cards as like job playing cards and say, okay, as we speak we will be taught in regards to the moose or we will be taught in regards to the leopard or no matter, snowboarding or snowboarding, after which ask these inferential questions, these literal questions, these tier two phrases. You simply weave it in and make it a recreation.

00:13:14 Hallie: That is why the college’s librarian must be your greatest pal, as a result of quite a lot of time they’ve that as issues in inventory that you may simply go make a photocopy of and return. And folks simply do not even know that they’ve entry. And even some faculties have licenses to a few of these websites that they would not even assume to inform the speech pathologist. However it’s best to know.

00:13:32 Tamara: Sure, I do have an excellent summer season or spring ebook that I like. My ebook… I wrote a ebook a few years in the past referred to as Yike [crosstalk]. Adore it. And I’ve the Spanish model. Dios mio, vi una barracuda. Porque español es mi tercer idioma, no perfectamente, pero más o menos. Pero cuando period niña yo vivía en Miami por muchos años. That is the place I realized my Spanish. So I inform all my shoppers and households I converse Spanglish. At this level as a result of, you understand, I’ve understanding of Spanish and expressively I can converse it. However my grammar wants slightly refinement in order that I can get my level throughout.

00:14:14 Hallie: Hey, that is nonetheless 10 steps additional than me. So talking of which, what are some concerns on multicultural wants, you understand, on the subject of literacy and language primarily based remedy?

00:14:25 Tamara: Sure, undoubtedly… is unquestionably essential. Atlanta, I work with youngsters from many various nations, many various continents, in fact, American youngsters. However their backgrounds are very various. So undoubtedly ensuring that one, once you’re doing an evaluation, do not check solely in English. If little.. you understand that the scholar has receptive language in Spanish or Arabic or one other language. So ensuring you’ve gotten a correct case historical past to a pupil that you simply work with, you are going to know, proper? However typically it’s essential to ask. They’re like, oh, they simply converse English. They exited from ESOL. No, you additionally want to verify as a result of typically their English has improved. However guess what? It’s completely unethical.

00:15:05 Tamara: And that is each state, each county must work on this. It’s completely mistaken for us to do an English solely evaluation when a toddler has even receptive information of their native language, even when they’re English dominant. And that is one thing that all of us must work on. And typically you are in a sticky spot as a result of your county may say, hey, nonetheless do it and report commonplace scores. We must always not. Or report the 90 p.c confidence intervals, which is why utilizing casual assessments are good. And to just be sure you use, say if it is Spanish, proper?

00:15:38 Tamara: You understand, the child has some receptive information of Spanish, some oral language of Spanish, however they is likely to be extra English dominant, which suggests they’re talking extra English now. Nonetheless discuss along with your faculty. In the event you’re in a college with the bilingual division, have them come out and do the evaluation in Spanish or one thing. They’ll use the bilingual check for receptive one phrase image vocabulary, expressive one phrase image vocabulary. They’ve the CELF in Spanish. You are able to do that or they will do subtests in that.

00:16:04 Tamara: After which what I love to do is I help the therapist – regardless that I’m… converse Spanglish, I’ve the absolutely fluent speech language pathologist do these assessments. After which I’ll complement with doing just like the SLAM playing cards, which is a college age language measure from Columbia College. Or I take advantage of a wordless image ebook or I take a language pattern and I’ll do casual like Spanish for W.H. questions. And there is some issues that I’ll do in Spanish. I simply put it on my type, however ensure that it is performed. And if it is one other language like Arabic, we’ve some youngsters and college students in my space which might be from Ethiopia, simply completely different languages that we do not have. You simply do one of the best that you may with these.

00:16:44 Hallie: You understand, I do know in some areas they do not even have entry to a bilingual therapist. They use translators or they do it themselves or there’s so many different methods. What recommendation would you give to them in the event that they’re those doing it themselves?

00:16:57 Tamara: Proper. So one of the simplest ways is to do a questionnaire first. So I all the time ship them like a multicultural bilingual questionnaire. You probably have it in English and Spanish or you’ll be able to even I imply, I hate to say Google Translate, however attempt to get the shape translated into the native language and get an interpreter to assist with that and ship it residence. So questions like what’s the residence language? What was the primary language that the scholars spoken? Was it English? Was it Arabic? Was it Tigrinya? Was it Amharic? Was it Portuguese? 

00:17:23 Tamara: You understand, after which at residence, what are they speaking with? With mother and father, with siblings? Are they speaking with Portuguese, with dad and Spanish with mother and grandma is Spanish and, you understand, all completely different factor. Like, oh, it is truly multilingual, you understand? To get case historical past, as a result of that may be a good begin to that. And that may assist you understand in case you want an interpreter and the place to proceed with that. 

00:17:48 Tamara: And typically you’ll be able to… in case you give an evaluation, you possibly can nonetheless give good subjective data, however you simply do not report the usual scores otherwise you take a story and say, okay, that is what their speech language pattern is in Spanish. I do know they is likely to be doing a B for V substitution or they may… some substitutions for sound substitutions and so forth is likely to be a dialectical error versus, you understand, a real speech sound distinction. So I’d simply look it up. These issues I haven’t got dedicated to reminiscence, however I’ve my completely different books and I’ve different… if of us need recommendations on that, I’ve that. They’ll all the time electronic mail me. I’ve some reference books that I take advantage of that I simply form of search for for various languages and so forth. 

00:18:26 Tamara: So, for instance, you may get a Goldman-Fristoe and say, hey, and take a look at it and say for speech sound, in the event that they’re mispronouncing these sounds whereas in Arabic that does not exist or in Spanish that does not exist or that is that. So that will not be one thing I might write a purpose for for speech articulation or phonological processing. I feel that is one thing {that a} speech therapist needs to be, you understand, with the precise useful resource, they will form of look and see with that.

00:18:48 Hallie: Are you able to speak about like holistic companies and constructing connections along with your college students and households and once you had been working with them?

00:18:56 Tamara: Yeah, so undoubtedly contemplating the entire little one is essential. It isn’t nearly pushing papers. I say knowledge assortment. You undoubtedly wish to join with them, ask them how their day goes. How are they feeling that day? Have they been sick with the flu or, you understand, no matter is… one thing occurred with grandma, sick or no matter is happening. We wish to join with them and construct the connection, not with the youngsters, not simply solely with college students and academics and their households, however attending to know them. What are their pursuits? You understand, do they play soccer on the weekends? They play soccer. Do they take ballet classes? Do they take karate or have they got any Boy Scouts or do they want an additional curricular to work on all that further power they’ve? You understand, it is attending to know them past simply, hey, come over right here. Growth, increase, increase. Let’s do that recreation. Let’s reply these questions. Like, who is that this girl? That is completely boring. 

00:19:43 Hallie: [inaudible]. Don’t wanna come [inaudible]. You are freaking me out, proper? What’s she doing?

00:19:47 Tamara: Precisely. So you must be actually invested in them and so forth to, you understand, so holistic is mainly contemplating the entire little one, their social, emotional wants, their language expertise, their educational, the entire image. You understand, you need them to achieve success, however profitable is not only grades. Profitable is like, how are they as slightly particular person in life or an adolescent or as they develop to be an grownup? I would like… that is the entire level of my entire enterprise, constructing profitable lives. I am actually captivated with youngsters rising as much as be mannerly, have enjoyable, you understand, and actually make one thing of their lives. 

00:20:21 Tamara: Not everybody will go to school. Typically they may go to vocational faculty, be taught a commerce. I used to be youngsters with extra extreme disabilities. I work with youngsters with mental impairment as effectively. You understand, life expertise. Can they type gadgets? Can they be taught practical expertise? Do they know the way to go to Goal and Walmart and discover the toothpaste and discover a washcloth and discover a towel? You understand, can they use their AAC system to make a request and make feedback like holistic? Sure, they’re engaged on communication targets, but in addition how are they feeling? You understand, they like to bop. You understand, you placed on songs and, you understand, they need to produce other pursuits exterior of this language and studying and literacy and articulation and say in an SH or in a [inaudible].

00:21:03 Hallie: And I all the time say connection over knowledge assortment. If they do not really feel that reference to you, they don’t seem to be going to work with you. Such as you mentioned, like they wish to learn with you since you make studying enjoyable. You make studying enjoyable. You get to know them. You construct that rapport with them. You construct a rapport with their households. Prefer it’s so important.

00:21:18 Tamara: And you are going to have the times when the youngsters aren’t excited. They’re like, oh, my goodness. You won’t be into it. And there is days and I am going to simply say, how are you feeling? Are you drained or simply not feeling like I am simply not feeling it? Nicely, I am not feeling it as we speak both. You understand, I am prepared for the weekend. And that is okay so that you can say as a therapist, too, you understand, particularly coming again. It takes a short time. That is like the subsequent second week now. So I am getting within the groove now. However, you understand, it takes a short time, however it’s like, okay.

00:21:42 Hallie: Any final bit of recommendation for somebody eager to be taught extra about Constructing that Profitable Lives and college students and incorporating literacy primarily based remedy and fascinated about the entire little one, any final bit of recommendation for somebody listening?

00:21:55 Tamara: Sure, I’ve quite a lot of nice sources. I have been running a blog for a few years, over 10 years, not as typically anymore. However I’d say take a look at the buildingsuccessfullives.com weblog archive. I’ll in all probability submit some extra issues arising. And I’ve performed a couple of programs during the last two years, three years. You may examine these out about language and literacy with a cultural lens. I did one within the fall about multi-tiered system of helps, MTSS, in case you’re within the public faculty system, and really to extend collaboration between speech therapists, psychologists, the entire crew, gen ed academics. 

00:22:28 Tamara: However what’s nice about that course is definitely present the kinds and the documentations like, right here, that is what you probably did… the academics, like step-by-step. That is our function as therapists. Chances are you’ll not wish to do MTSS, however in case you’re within the faculty, you must. It is part of… or you have to be. It guides me by way of that course of. After which I’ve a few programs that I might simply go slightly deeper. Some are one hour programs and a few are two hour programs. So it is like a deeper dive. And I give quite a lot of supplies out. You understand, I’m going over like what it’s best to do in remedy, like that is what it’s best to do and that is what you employ. And you should have, you understand, your college students will enhance.

00:23:03 Hallie: Thanks so, a lot. We’ll hyperlink to all these issues within the present notes, everybody. So to not fear. I all the time finish my episodes with a joke as a result of jokes construct rapport. Why did the cat sit on the pc? 

00:23:18 Tamara: Proper now, this isn’t [inaudible].

00:23:22 Hallie: It needed to regulate the mouse. My corny dad jokes, guys, are right here. They construct rapport, they’re language-based, and you should use them in case you like them. In case your college students make enjoyable of them, you’ll be able to blame me. All proper, guys. Thanks a lot. The place can they discover you on Instagram as effectively?

00:23:43 Tamara: Sure, on Instagram, I am buildingsuccessfullives.com. After which in case you simply observe me on there, simply, I’ve a factor within the bio for like Linktree to all my different sources. And I’ve quite a lot of freebies on the market. So test it out. I’ve stuff on the web site, however go to TPT. That is the place all of them originate it and simply cruise all my data. Thanks a lot, Hallie, for having me. It was a pleasure and all one of the best to everybody for 2026 in speech language remedy and past.

00:24:09 Hallie: Thanks so, a lot. And to everybody listening, share this episode out with a pal, share it with somebody you’re keen on and like, your colleagues. And till subsequent week, keep out of hassle.

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