Present Notes:
For those who’ve ever felt such as you’re drowning in child clipart whereas making an attempt to make speech remedy work for center and excessive schoolers, this episode is your life raft. Hallie is right here to spark The Secondary SLP Motion — empowering SLPs to take again their time, make remedy purposeful, and present the world that speech remedy doesn’t cease after elementary college. 🙌💬
From planning in 10 minutes flat to utilizing real-world supplies that truly have interaction teenagers, Hallie spills her finest ideas for conserving remedy enjoyable, related, and stress-free. Get able to chortle, nod alongside, and really feel seen — as a result of this episode proves that remedy for older college students could be simply as thrilling (and means much less exhausting)! 💡🔥
📘✨ Seize your copy of The Secondary SLP Roadmap right here! https://www.speechtimefunpd.com/stf-book
This is what we realized:
- Redefining what it means to be a secondary SLP in immediately’s faculties.
- Utilizing real-life, purposeful supplies to interact older college students.
- Chopping planning time with out sacrificing affect.
- Reusing and recycling frameworks for stress-free remedy.
- Constructing rapport and boosting buy-in with relevance and respect.
- Celebrating small wins and sharing them with the SLP neighborhood.
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00:00:00 Hallie: Hey there SLP pals, is Hallie right here, popping in with one of the best information ever. My new e book, Secondary SLP Roadmap is formally obtainable. For those who’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, prepared to make use of methods and instruments you should use instantly. Seize your copy now, test the hyperlink within the present notes or search Secondary SLP Roadmap on Amazon. After which in fact, please do me a favor. If 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 physician’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.
00:00:57 Hallie: Welcome to SLP Espresso Speak, the podcast designed solely for speech language pathologists who work with older college students, grades 4 by 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 gives you the jolt of inspiration that you just 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.
00:01:37 Hallie: Hey, hey, and welcome to a different episode of SLP Espresso Speak, the podcast made only for you. SLPs who’re able to make speech remedy enjoyable, purposeful, and naturally, much less hectic. I am Hallie Sherman, your SLP bestie, and immediately we’re gonna be speaking about one thing near my coronary heart, the secondary SLP motion. For these of you working with center and highschool college students who’re uninterested in drowning in child clipart, and people of you which might be uninterested in spending your nights reinventing the remedy wheel. So seize your espresso as a result of we’re about to dive into how one can make this shift, why it issues, and how one can be part of one thing greater.
00:02:20 Hallie: So image this. You are in a swimming pool, however as an alternative of water, you are surrounded by piles of cutesy preschool clip artwork, ABC blocks, teddy bears, coloring sheets, and also you’re flailing, greedy for air whereas your eighth graders sit on the facet of the pool rolling their eyes. That’s the way it can generally really feel like being a SLP working with center college and highschool college students. Particularly these college students are studying at perhaps a second grade stage and perhaps the one issues you’ll find at their stage appear like it’s for second graders. Okay.
00:02:58 Hallie: Now think about climbing out of that pool, shaking off that child clipart, strolling right into a remedy room the place your college students are leaning in, really as a result of the supplies you might be utilizing appears like their world. Crammed with issues that they’re into, bottle flipping, anime, phrases like sigma, you are holding onto an actual world job like, job software, a cafeteria menu, a TikTok transcript, and all of a sudden remedy is working for them and it is working for you. That is the imaginative and prescient of this motion. It isn’t about sources. It is about respect. Respect to your time as an SLP. Respect to your older college students who deserve remedy meaning them the place they’re. And respect for our occupation, proving that speech remedy would not cease being related after elementary college. I do not find out about you, however I did not study what SLPs in center college and highschool did in graduate college. I did not study that.
00:04:09 Hallie: And I actually had nobody to look as much as or ask for assist after I went into these roles. There was no sources on the market. That was why I began Speech Time from the Weblog as a result of I used to be like, if I am on the lookout for issues and might’t discover it, different individuals are most likely are too. And our college students deserve somebody who is worked up to be at work each day, who is worked up to indicate them that the sources that we’re utilizing are enjoyable and are acceptable for them. So this motion that I’m beginning, why is it necessary? This motion issues for 3 huge causes.
00:04:45 Hallie: Primary, you. You should take again your private time. You aren’t meant to be buried beneath countless planning. Once you reclaim your evenings and weekends, you’ll come to work recharged and that makes you a greater SLP. And your college students are so fortunate to have an SLP that’s spending their treasured time listening to an SLP podcast with me. Okay, you like what you do and also you should go to work each day feeling fulfilled, feeling impressed and never drained. This motion issues additionally for our college students. Our center college and excessive schoolers want speech remedy that’s purposeful. We’re not simply engaged on speech abilities or grammar worksheets, we’re getting ready them for all times.
00:05:34 Hallie: Job interviews, self-advocacy, navigating completely different social conditions. If we do not make it actual and related to them, they may try. We have to keep in mind how they really feel about coming to speech, how they may really feel about their previous speech experiences, how they may really feel about their communication and studying difficulties. They is perhaps uninterested in going to speech. They is perhaps embarrassed about their struggles.
00:05:58 Hallie: And right here we is perhaps pulling them out of courses which might be enjoyable and motivating to them and pulling them to do issues which might be laborious for them. We have to present them that what we’re doing is gonna assist them of their actual world. And their actual world motivation may not be teachers. And that is okay. Once we take the time to construct that rapport with our college students, we all know what’s motivating and related to them and we will be sure our speech remedy is related. And that is how we get there buy-in.
00:06:27 Hallie: And it additionally issues as a result of our area wants us. Too typically secondary SLPs really feel like an afterthought. This motion shines a lightweight on how very important our position is. We’re not babysitting. We’re not there only a, , a substitute, a para-. We’re shaping futures. And never saying all these different issues usually are not necessary, however we’re necessary too. Each session that we do with our college students is proof that SLPs are important throughout all grades ranges. So typically folks suppose that solely EI and preschool and perhaps elementary SLPs are making an affect. However we’re college students’ final cease of their tutorial careers and we will make an affect too.
00:07:12 Hallie: We might help our college students love going to high school. know, assist our college students really feel that they’ll make an affect of their neighborhood after college. We will have such an affect. Okay, so how will we really make the shift from drowning to thriving? Listed below are 4 steps which you can take proper now. Plan in 10. Set a timer for 10 minutes. Sure, that is it. That needs to be all you really want. Problem your self to create a session spark, not a full lesson plan. Okay, you do not want like a full on written out lesson plan with each single factor mapped out.
00:07:49 Hallie: Possibly for those who’re simply getting noticed, however apart from that, only for instance, simply take one factor. For example, having a debate and we will use that debate to work on any potential aim. Simply take one factor and use it with as many teams and objectives as potential. You may be shocked on how a lot lighter it feels while you simply take one article, one e book, one one thing, and that is all you want for thus many teams. Okay, swap out the worksheets for actual life. Now I’ve many weblog posts and episodes on how one can flip worksheets into enjoyable, however our teenagers don’t desire cutesy clip artwork. You wish to be sure your sources are wanting acceptable for them.
00:08:29 Hallie: In addition they need relevance. Seize supplies from their actual world, like a screenshot of a menu, a YouTube transcript, perhaps a math phrase downside if that is motivating to them. Or in fact, sources from SLP Elevate that has, , Jeopardy video games and Activity Card video games and science experiments and all these issues, no matter theme they’re motivated by. And use it as a springboard.
00:08:53 Hallie: Out of the blue speech remedy will really feel much less like busy work and extra like life prep. Suggestion quantity three, use routines, not reinvention. Decide just a few go-to frameworks which you can repeat time and again, reminiscent of I am gonna use YouTube movies time and again with as many teams and objectives as potential. I am gonna use position enjoying with as many teams and objectives as potential. I am gonna use a science experiment with as many teams and objectives as potential. When you could have one thing, all these issues into your toolbox, you’ll be able to simply pull it out in a pinch.
00:09:29 Hallie: And naturally, additionally having your backup plans, add puzzle, bamboozle, glook it. These are all of my go-to backup plans after I want one thing to complete the group out or if a session will not be working as deliberate, scratch it and go together with your backup plan. It is okay. And tip quantity 4, rejoice your wins. Hold a time backtracker. Did you propose it for 10 minutes as an alternative of two hours? That is a win. Did a scholar say, oh, I wish to learn versus I am not doing this? That is a win. Did a scholar not roll their eyes at you? That is a win.
00:10:04 Hallie: Write it down. Hold these small wins in a secure place and use them to gas momentum and remind you of why you might be doing what you had been doing within the first place. And this is the factor. You are not alone. We’re all on this collectively. Okay? Keep in mind, secondary SLPs have our personal struggles. We’ve the big caseloads, the excessive calls for of paperwork, Medicaid billing, evaluations, IEPs, aim writing, all that enjoyable stuff. Lunch obligation, bus obligation, we’d have all these issues, however then we even have college students that do not wish to be there.
00:10:40 Hallie: So keep in mind, I’m right here for you. We’re all on this collectively. For those who’re contained in the SLP Elevate neighborhood, you could have a neighborhood of 1000’s of SLPs additionally on this with you and you’ve got entry to sources to make it tremendous, tremendous straightforward for you. So simply keep in mind, be happy to tag me on Instagram, tag @speechtimefun. You should use the hashtag Secondary SLPs Unite if you wish to be a part of the motion and let different secondary SLPs know that we’re all on this collectively. Ship me a DM letting me know for those who took certainly one of the following tips, tips, perhaps plans in 10 minutes for the primary time ever, or drop me an e-mail, hallie@speechtimefun.com. I do actually learn them and I like to rejoice you. So while you had been writing down these wins that you just had been lastly getting, let me know them. I wish to hear and rejoice with you as nicely.
00:11:25 Hallie: So each time you share, you are encouraging one other secondary SLP who feels invisible to face up and say, sure, me too. And that is how all of us get higher collectively. So my pals, keep in mind, remedy that works for teenagers works for you too. This is not about doing extra. It is about doing what issues. It is about being seen, being revered, and being part of a motion, the secondary SLP motion, that lifts us all up and makes us all higher collectively.
00:11:57 Hallie: All proper, I all the time finish my episodes with a joke, since this builds humor and builds rapport for our speech college students. If you’d like, I had by no means missed a joke in any episode main up thus far. So why cannot you belief math academics holding graph paper…? As a result of they’re all the time plotting one thing. Ba dum ching. All proper, thanks everybody for tuning in to a different episode of SLP Espresso Speak. Preserving it enjoyable, conserving it purposeful, and right here that will help you maintain taking again your time, at some point at a time, one week at a time, one minute at a time. And till subsequent week, everybody, keep out of bother.
00:12:40 Hallie: Thanks a lot for tuning in to a different episode of SLP Espresso Speak. It means the world to me that you just’re tuning in each week and getting the jolt of inspiration you want. You could find the entire hyperlinks and knowledge talked about on this episode at my web site, speechtimefun.com. Remember to observe the present so you do not miss any future episodes. And when you’re there, it could imply the world to me. For those who would take just a few seconds and go away me an sincere evaluate. See you subsequent week with one other episode filled with enjoyable and inspiration from one SLP to a different. Have enjoyable, guys.
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