Present Notes:
On this enjoyable and heartwarming episode of SLP Espresso Discuss, we’re hanging out with the fabulous Julie L. Barber-Bristol, M.S., CCC-SLP—a kids’s literature-loving SLP with 20+ years of expertise and a ardour for making speech remedy magical. From New York to Pennsylvania to Texas, Julie’s performed all of it—personal apply, faculties, hospitals, even nursing properties. Now rocking it in Cypress-Fairbanks ISD, she shares how she takes only one image e-book and spins it right into a month-long journey stuffed with language objectives, classroom collabs, and sensory enjoyable! In the event you love child lit, inventive remedy concepts, and actual discuss from a seasoned SLP, you’re in for a deal with!
This is what we realized:
- One nice e-book can gasoline weeks of inventive, efficient remedy.
- Books are filled with visuals, vocab, and built-in engagement.
- Collaboration = magic. Don’t go it alone!
- You don’t want fancy supplies—simply creativity and story.
- Social pondering and emotion abilities pair completely with literacy.
- When remedy is enjoyable, college students (and workers!) need to be a part of it.
- The speech room isn’t the one place nice remedy occurs—get on the market!
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00:00:00 Hallie: Hey there, SLP working with grades 4 by way of 12. New college yr, new you. Let’s not go into this college yr feeling overwhelmed and behind on paperwork. Let’s not fear about college students asking why they’re coming to speech. Let’s not have college students shrugging their shoulders and you saying, “Why am I right here? I do not need to be right here.” Let’s as an alternative have your college students excited to come back to speech, able to tackle the challenges you present, and make large progress in the direction of their objectives.
00:30:00 Hallie: In case you are able to make this college yr the yr that you simply depart work promptly on the finish of the day, plan in an hour or much less every week, and go into each session assured that your college students will grasp the session goals, then SLP Elevate is simply what it is advisable make this college yr a profitable one. Both go to slpelevate.com or ship me a DM on Instagram with the phrase “membership”, C-U-L-B, and we are able to talk about if SLP Elevate is best for you and your college students. Now’s the time to get your time again, and now could be the time to get your college students excited to come back to speech. SLP Elevate is ideal for you.
00:01:14 Hallie: Welcome to SLP Espresso Discuss, 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 deliver you conversations, methods, and insights that provides you with 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.
00:01:55 Hallie: Hey, hey, and welcome to a different episode of SLP Espresso Discuss. I do know plenty of you want utilizing books and literacy-based remedy, so I do know you are going to love the dialog right here in the present day. Julie Bristol, welcome to the present.
00:02:08 Julie: Thanks.
00:02:09 Hallie: Inform everybody listening a little bit bit about you and your SLP journey to what you’re doing now.
00:02:15 Julie: Good. So I began out in New York State working in personal apply, did dwelling visits for early intervention and preschool remedy, did some work within the constitution faculties, did some grownup stuff within the expert nursing facility. After which moved to Pennsylvania the place I labored for the capital space intermediate unit. And I used to be there a few decade. My main obligations have been on this full-aged inhabitants. So primarily kindergarten by way of eighth grade and a few highschool time as properly.
00:02:49 Julie: After which the previous, about eight years I have been in Texas and I labored for a neighborhood college district, Cy-Truthful ISD. And I’m in a constructing the place I am working with pre-Ok by way of fifth grade. Years in the past, I bought concerned with an expert improvement undertaking once I was in Pennsylvania, and a woman pal of mine, I’ve to offer her a shout out, [Leanne Pattison]. And I did plenty of work with kids’s books, and my love of youngsters’ books snowballed from there.
00:03:21 Hallie: I really like that. I really like the shout out too. [inaudible] when this episode is airing, are you going to be at Tisha?
00:03:27 Julie: I’m going to be at Tisha.
00:03:29 Hallie: I might be there as properly.
00:03:30 Julie: Oh, I must discover you. Sure, I might be at Tisha with truly, most likely as we proceed this dialog, I will reference my colleague, Nicole. She and I’ve labored collectively for about seven years and we share a room. So we spent plenty of time doing remedy collectively and he or she and I’ll each be at Tisha. So, yeah.
00:03:49 Hallie: Superior. Very, very cool. Why do you’re keen on utilizing books in speech remedy?
00:03:54 Julie: They’re simply a straightforward go-to materials. It began out that it was an expert improvement undertaking and my son was about two, three on the time. So we spent plenty of high quality time on the library at story time. And I simply had a lot publicity to children books, and my pal Leanne and I actually bought into exploring how we may use them in remedy.
00:04:16 Julie: And at the moment, Pennsylvania is quite a bit smaller relating to college dimension than Texas. And so I used to be in about six completely different faculties every week. And it helped quite a bit with remedy as a result of it was like a one-stop store for remedy supplies. I may seize a e-book, after which they’d plenty of the visuals constructed into it. After which additionally, seize a toy or some sort of recreation or one thing that went together with it. So it was actually purposeful. And likewise it was what I used to be immersed in at dwelling as properly, as a result of like I stated, my son was that age and we have been studying a ton.
00:04:52 Julie: Now right here in Texas, and it has taken on an entire new factor. What I’ve performed is taken all of the information and expertise with books that I had in Pennsylvania. However as a result of I am in a single constructing and I am working with much more preschool kids, I’ve turned it into an entire month-long journey with one e-book. There’s an entire method for a way my SLP accomplice and I am going about utilizing books in remedy. So it is sort of enjoyable.
00:05:22 Hallie: I really like that. Are you able to clarify a little bit extra how you utilize one e-book throughout a complete month? Are you studying it each session or are you studying it one session and simply doing follow-up actions? Like how does that? I do know many listeners are most likely questioning tips on how to, you already know—
00:05:35 Julie: All of the above. No. All the above. So the largest factor is we use it throughout age ranges as properly. So we use one e-book, one month, entire caseload. Now I’ll say the majority of my caseload is youthful college students. After which the older college students that I’ve are normally engaged on one thing extremely specialised or possibly wrapping up our tic sounds, that sort of a factor. We additionally use a wide range of fashions. So plenty of our tic children are 5 minute remedy heads, so they are not on this equation.
00:06:06 Julie: However for a kid that’s getting language companies, it is all about selecting a very nice e-book. So after all, I am in search of books which might be going to the touch on what we name our TEKS, that are our Texas Important Information Abilities. After which I am additionally in search of issues which might be going to focus on a variety of speech and language improvement. So these are my two largest issues once I decide a e-book.
00:06:29 Julie: Then I search for different stuff. Range, illustration. I search for a large open theme, one thing that you should utilize for a time frame, so not one thing that is very particular. I search for one thing that is entertaining. I search for books which have the flexibility to include motion. I search for books which have nice illustrations and artwork. That is one factor with children. Books are just about their first alternative to be uncovered to artwork. And I really feel like with the visuals being a part of the e-book, that is a very necessary element.
00:07:03 Julie: After which I am additionally in search of one thing that is simply enjoyable and entertaining, and hands-on. So all of it begins with the e-book. After which as soon as I’ve chosen a e-book, that is the place my accomplice and I determine issues out. So the primary week is at all times background information as a result of background information is so crucial for principally any speech and language improvement ability. And so we begin there with some sort of opening exercise the primary week, like do an image stroll of the e-book as a short publicity, introduce the quilt, make some inferences concerning the setting and the characters. All of these sorts of issues are the primary week.
00:07:40 Julie: The second week is solely studying. And we’ll spend plenty of time with the e-book, discussing the photographs, discussing the ideas on every web page, and studying by way of the e-book. Then the third and fourth week, we revisit the e-book, possibly not in a full studying, possibly only a fast evaluate of a sure web page that aligns with an exercise. After which we actually get into children particular objectives in that third and fourth week of the month. And so it really works out very well. After which we do plenty of classroom-based remedy.
00:08:10 Julie: And so we pull in our lecturers for assist with that. And so we attempt to discover a model of the e-book on-line that is been learn by an writer or a librarian or some sort of story time. After which we ship that out to the lecturers so that in these working breaks, like when the youngsters are having snacks or they’ve 5 minutes earlier than dismissal and all people’s packed up, they will play the video for the youngsters. So once more, they’re being uncovered and so they see one other alternative to listen to and see the photographs and the phrases and the ideas for the e-book. So it really works out very well.
00:08:43 Julie: After which after all we do pull dad and mom in. We share that very same vetted video with the dad and mom. Now we have an ongoing Google Doc. And we maintain them up to date on what we’re engaged on. Now we have dad and mom which might be like, we have not gotten the video for this month, or we have not gotten any carryover actions. What’s taking place with the mother or father communication? So we actually attempt to make it an entire crew effort.
00:09:05 Hallie: I really like that. I am certain the dad and mom and the lecturers recognize it like, “Thanks for sending me this that I can use to…” Not solely entertain, but additionally can observe up and so they get to see what you are doing.
00:09:17 Julie: Yeah, and it is sort of cool too. And that is kind of off matter from the books, however we have been on this constructing working collectively for seven years. And so my first yr within the constructing, there was an important trainer, [Darlene Chu], and he or she actually—we simply clicked. And so I began telling her what e-book I used to be going to do every month. And so she began studying the e-book along with her self-contained pre-Ok class. And it kind of snowballed out from there. And so then I pulled in one other trainer after which, my accomplice and I began doing the identical e-book every year or every month. It is like every year we constructed and constructed and constructed.
00:09:50 Julie: And so a number of years in the past, it needed to be most likely the yr after COVID, so possibly 2021, we talked our principal into giving us an additional room. We had room within the constructing. And so we actually shoved all of the furnishings to the perimeters. And we determined that we have been going to do classroom-based classes, however as an alternative of us going to the youngsters, the youngsters got here to us. And we arrange this, what we name language lab. And so we have been capable of do – and this wasn’t centered on books. This was centered on incorporating some sort of superb or gross motor motion into speech and language actions. And so we had the youngsters divided into three teams. There can be Julie’s group, which had all my children in it. Nicole’s group, which had all of her children in it. After which we might have a gen ed group and the gen ed group, the trainer would run after which we might have the paraprofessionals serving to.
00:10:37 Julie: However we included some sort of theme-based in our speech and language classroom, some kind of exercise that we may incorporate some sort of motion and such in with the entire class. And so by this time we had each self-contained class from life abilities to our early childhood particular schooling lecture rooms in kindergarten and in pre-Ok coming to this room and doing these actions.
00:11:02 Julie: And naturally we differentiate every little thing relying on wants and relying on ages and that sort of factor. However it actually pulled the entire workers in and made it an actual collaborative effort. So the following yr, I do not understand how a lot you already know about Texas, however like they’re constructing and increasing like I’ve by no means seen in my life. And so we misplaced our room [crosstalk] like unprecedented for the speech pads to have two lecture rooms.
00:11:32 Hallie: And also you get one normally.
00:11:33 Julie: I do know, proper. I imply, its house is such a commodity. And so anyway, we have been like, we will proceed this, however we will do it within the lecture rooms. And so we now have. However we have included the books within the room much more now. So, you already know, once more, it is background information after which it is the studying after which it is some sort of entire group exercise that the youngsters, you already know, we strive to try this rotation sort factor. And a brand new trainer joins the workers and it is like, “Okay, properly, that is how we do it right here.” It is superior.
00:12:05 Julie: And the workers, it is like all fingers on deck. You understand, one particular person’s the chaos coordinator. One particular person’s the, you already know, the lead of this line. You understand, one particular person’s the road supervisor, you already know. And so the youngsters are actually arising, you already know, have their one fast little flip, do no matter little exercise. After which they go to the top of the road and we rotate by way of. So, it is most likely exhausting for individuals to visualise this from a phrase, a podcast perspective. So if you need, I can sort of go into an instance.
00:12:35 Hallie: Give an instance of a e-book that you simply be studying—
00:12:38 Julie: Within the springtime—
00:12:39 Hallie: Or any of your favorites that you’ve—
00:12:42 Julie: Okay, so a favourite. Oh, goodness. What have the youngsters actually appreciated? Nicely, Fall is at all times successful and that is a very easy e-book to drag in or a theme to drag in. So within the fall, we at all times do one thing leaf-related. And so attempting to think about e-book that we did for the autumn, how about – no, I am gonna shift gears, as a result of I considered one which I like higher. I am gonna do Lucy’s Blooms. This can be a e-book that I found final yr. A pal of mine who has a pal who’s a kids’s writer launched me to this e-book, and I can by no means say her title accurately, however the e-book is Lucy’s Blooms, and Daybreak is the writer. I can’t pronounce her final title.
00:13:21 Julie: So anyway, the youngsters for the spring, we’d begin speaking within the first month about flowers and the way they develop and just like the elements of the flower and what they want. And so it is like a mini science lesson. And so we’d have some sort of image the place they will label and we draw and have a gaggle dialogue. And in order that’s our background information. And we’ll most likely discover some sort of tune that we are able to incorporate and have a little bit dance celebration on the finish, as a result of everyone knows that sitting for 20 minutes speaking concerning the elements of the flower is sufficient to exhaust anyone. So that you want a stretch break after that.
00:13:55 Julie: And so as soon as we do this, the following week we might undergo and skim the e-book. After which week three and 4, we’d do the precise actions. So if we had a toddler that was engaged on sequencing, we’d deliver within the sequencing playing cards for rising a flower. After which as soon as within the classroom, they’re of their traces, they take their flip, they put the photographs so as, then they go and plant a flower. And so we’d have like a plastic terracotta pot and a few shredded paper, and that will be the soil they’d put it in. After which they’d possibly request the coloured flower they need and they’d put that in and seize a watering can and water it.
00:14:27 Julie: In the event that they have been engaged on asking questions or answering questions. We’d have them arrange in order that we now have like a flower making station and this may be within the speech language classroom in a small group. And one youngster can be the shop proprietor and one youngster can be the client and they’d ask for the precise soil that – you already know, “I want some soil,” “I want, you already know, a purple flower,” “I want the watering can,” you already know, all the completely different steps to planting the flower and making the requests for the objects that they want.
00:15:01 Julie: Or in the event that they have been the one that was the gross sales clerk, the gross sales clerk would say, you already know, “What shade flower would you want?” And naturally we now have visuals to help all of these items. We’d do a guided drawing the place we return by way of and we draw the principle concepts of the image. We’d have them design their very own flower. Numerous various things. Now we have a backyard at the back of the varsity. We’re very recognized for occurring our little backyard walks. And we might level out the completely different elements of various crops and, you already know, odor the flowers, give it like an entire multi-sensory expertise. So no matter children are engaged on, we discover a option to differentiate and incorporate their objectives.
00:15:38 Hallie: I simply love that you simply’re leaving the speech room.
00:15:42 Julie: At all times. At all times. It is good to get out of the speech room and I really feel as if what I can accomplish with this pupil, particularly after we’re speaking pre-Ok children who profit from, and even kindergarten and first grade children, who profit from the multi-sensory collaborative strategy. I am with them 25 minutes. We do 25 minutes in our district simply because that is how the schedule is about up. However 25 minute classes a pair occasions every week does little or no. Sure, I’ve nice specialised abilities, nevertheless it’s an entire crew effort. And so if the classroom trainer sees how I make the most of the cork board or make the most of visuals or how I give instructions or how I ask questions, I am coaching them on the identical time I am offering speech remedy.
00:16:30 Julie: And it is actually cool too, simply to the touch base along with your lecturers that you’ve that bond with. I’ve watched lecturers develop so dramatically simply from the collaboration. And so I really feel like I am offering my service, I am offering trainer help, I am offering a chance to construct capability simply by doing my job. And so, I really like that a part of it. I’ve additionally expanded. Final yr, I spent plenty of time with our librarian and I used to be collaborating along with her with third grade. And that was tremendous cool due to the truth that she was bringing a trainer’s perspective as a result of she was a trainer earlier than she grew to become a librarian, the librarian perspective. After which we have been taking it a step additional and placing within the speech perspective.
00:17:18 Julie: So we actually labored properly collectively the place I’d plan a lesson, she would plan a lesson, then I’d plan half and he or she would plan half. After which we bought to the purpose the place we have been planning collectively. And so it was actually cool. And we have been in search of generalization for greater functioning college students who may need the autism sort analysis and people social communication alternatives have been difficult. So the library, you already know, lended itself to the e-book and we’d decide one thing that supported that, however adopted her curriculum as properly. She would give me two or three selections. I picked the e-book I appreciated greatest. After which we collaborated on like STEM actions to do because the carryover. After which I used to be capable of sort of hover, little helicopter motion with my college students that have been engaged on these social pragmatic sort objectives.
00:18:08 Julie: And it was very pure as a result of they have been doing their library class. And right here I used to be, you already know, ensuring from behind the scenes that there have been alternatives to collaborate and, you already know, construct that STEM undertaking or work with their gen ed friends to generalize these abilities. So it was sort of neat. We have had some restructuring this yr, so I have never been capable of work along with her. And so it has been sort of a bummer as a result of it actually was a cool collaboration final yr.
00:18:36 Hallie: I find it irresistible. I am curious concerning the admin help or admins reactions to all this.
00:18:42 Julie: Nicely, our admin is actually cool. I’ve had two completely different admins. The primary admin that gave us the classroom, I not work with that exact principal, however she was at all times extraordinarily supportive. We put out for a grant, which we did find yourself getting, however she was 100% behind us. So it was actually cool to have that sort of help. And plenty of occasions when there have been points with that exact administration, they’d come to us as speech pathologists and say, “Hey, that is what we’re seeing. Do you’ve gotten any methods? Do you’ve gotten any concepts?” You understand, that sort of factor. In order that was superior.
00:19:17 Julie: Our new administration has are available in and we’re equally supported. They actually allow us to run our present as a result of it was in place when this new administration took over. And so we even have a brand new principal and two new assistant principals. And they also’ve been very supportive to it, nevertheless it was, like I stated, it was sort of simply the best way issues have been performed. And they also’ve actually simply, you already know, sort of joined the constructing and watched and noticed and have actually sort of embraced us. And so it is sort of neat. Now we have plenty of leeway. They know that the youngsters are getting what they want. They know that we’re placing our hearts and souls into issues.
00:20:02 Julie: And so I really feel like they actually simply respect our career and help us. I’ll say this, our conduct interventionist was on campus as our PE coach, our bodily schooling trainer. And he or she noticed how a lot we have been doing with our youngsters within the social pondering realm. And so it is commonplace for us to have children that may overlap.
00:20:29 Julie: And from a behavioral standpoint, she may even pull me apart and say, “Hey, this got here up, you already know, blah, blah, blah,” and we’ll have a dialog about it, you already know, and if it is a pupil we overlap on, it is, “Nicely, that is what’s profitable in speech, and that is how one can incorporate it.” And so it is actually neat to have the overlap and to have that collaboration with individuals that you simply would not assume that you’d have that collaboration with.
00:20:55 Hallie: And that is superb. And I feel additionally since you’re leaving the speech room and going into the classroom, individuals are additionally seeing extra how one can help them. So typically our colleagues do not know what we’re doing within the speech closets and that is your experience, that is mine, and we’re separate and never equal, and I am not going to ask you for assist as a result of I do not want your assist. However they’re seeing the worth of coming to you for recommendation or solutions as a result of they see the way you’re working with the child that you simply’re doing in entrance of them.
00:21:25 Julie: Precisely. Particularly whenever you’re doing one thing that is actually extremely specialised, just like the social pondering stuff and the social pragmatics. I imply, I do not know whenever you went by way of school, however there was not plenty of instruction once I went by way of. And so every little thing I’ve realized, I’ve realized by way of persevering with ed and studying and all the conferences and all of the issues.
00:21:47 Julie: And so you already know, I’ve spent plenty of time constructing that ability set as a result of it is a actually necessary ability set. And particularly after getting back from COVID. I am discovering that the anticipated, surprising sort language and the impression that you simply’re making on me, all of that language I am utilizing with plenty of my gen ed children that aren’t essentially identified with a social pragmatic want. And yeah, it is efficient as a result of they hear it day by day.
00:22:17 Julie: I am having an surprising considered you. [inaudible] conduct it is advisable change. And it is superb to me that even four-year-olds can decide up on that. So it is one thing that I exploit all through the grade ranges, and it is one thing that I begin very early on, and I began with our books as properly. And I do not understand how different individuals educate it, however I’ll say that one thing’s surprising even when it is not like a unfavourable surprising, as a result of generally after we’re stunned, one thing is surprising.
00:22:47 Julie: And so, simply tying in all of that good things, you already know, to show these abilities in – it is sort of the identical idea as time-out. You do not educate it when a toddler’s escalated. You educate it after they’re calm. And so, you already know, we educate those self same sort of social pragmatic abilities very naturally as a result of they arrive up on the pages of a e-book. And so when the youngsters do have that social pragmatic want, it may be one thing they’ve already heard within the classroom as a result of it is what we’re saying and doing all day lengthy.
00:23:19 Hallie: I really like that. Do you utilize the identical books each yr, or do you alter up the e-book of the month based mostly on pupil curiosity wants, or one thing that you simply simply discover a new e-book and also you need to incorporate it?
00:23:30 Julie: All of the above. No, I do not repeat books quite a bit. When this primary began, I feel it is a widespread trait that plenty of speech pathologists are hoarders. My husband and I’ve this difficulty with the quantity of toys and books and issues that I’ve had.
00:23:51 Hallie: Behind me are just a few.
00:23:52 Julie: I do know, proper? And so I keep in mind after we didn’t have a toddler, and he was like, “Why do we now have this many toys?” And my response – that is once I was doing early intervention. And my response to him was as a result of my mind wants one thing completely different. And so, selfishly, I don’t repeat books as a result of there are plenty of good books on the market that must be repeated. Once we began this, my accomplice and I have been pondering, “Wow, we may actually decrease to love 50 books if we did like 5 years price of books and did one a month.” And our e-book cabinets may very well be simply 50 books, and we may repeat each 5 years. After which the youngsters would not keep in mind, or it might be new children. However I’ve to be trustworthy, I actually love children’ books that a lot that I discover a new e-book each different [inaudible].
00:24:41 Hallie: I find it irresistible.
00:24:42 Julie: However I do maintain comparable themes. And so like within the public faculties – properly once I was in Pennsylvania, I labored within the private faculties fairly a bit. And so if it was a Catholic college, I may do a Christmas, you already know, or one thing like that. However within the public faculties and particularly within the Houston space the place we’re probably the most, I feel we’re probably the most numerous metropolis within the nation, there’s plenty of completely different cultures. And so we actually tried to stay to impartial matters, if you’ll.
00:25:08 Julie: And so like each fall it is leaves or apples, you already know, and each winter it is snow. After which I persist with meals round Thanksgiving and normally March. This month I got here throughout a e-book known as Potato Pants at Christmas. Oh, it is hysterical. And so I truly went and acquired potatoes, and I whipped a potato out of the tub. College students have been like, “Ms. Bristol, why do you’ve gotten a potato?”
00:25:34 Julie: And it was fascinating once I pulled it out, stated, “What is that this?” And I could not imagine the variety of four-year-olds that stated tomato as an alternative of potato. And so we had that dialog. However then we talked about the place you develop it. We talked about, you already know, the place you might purchase it, the place you might discover it. I had one 4, 4 yr four-year-old inform me that you might get it on the farmer’s market. And in order that was superior. After which this can be a very cartoony e-book. And so I drew the facial expressions from the e-book on an entire sequence of potatoes. And so the youngsters are having a good time.
00:26:09 Julie: We simply began out with the primary – as a result of we’re on spring break this week. Final week was our first week with the e-book. And so we did background information, and it was principally, you already know, what’s a potato? The place do you discover it? You understand, what are you able to make with it? Have you ever ever eaten a potato? What’s your favourite sort of potato? After which we did examples and non-examples of potato. So, you already know, I discovered on-line some visible that was potato meals and never potato meals, and the youngsters have had such amusing about it. It has been a lot enjoyable. However the cause I had picked this e-book, I got here throughout it at Christmas and simply appreciated it. However I did an in-service with an introception. I am unsure if you happen to’ve heard that buzzword. It is a new one or it is turning into extremely popular, I assume is a greater option to put it.
00:26:54 Julie: However Kelly Mahler, I am unsure the way you say her final title. I by no means met her, however we truly labored for a similar firm. We each labored for the Intermediate Unit, the Capillary Intermediate Unit, at one level. And so I watched this in-service and I used to be like, you already know, that makes plenty of sense, you already know, speaking about what your physique feels in addition to what your facial expressions appear to be and, you already know, what you are experiencing. And so once I did that in-service and had this e-book.
00:27:23 Julie: I used to be like, “Oh boy, there is a connection right here.” And so it was simply plenty of enjoyable to discover that. However I did a little analysis and I discovered an article about how language-delayed children are usually not good expressing what their physique’s experiencing and the way their feelings are coming about. And so I used to be like, “Wow, this can be a actually good option to pull in a number of the facial expressions, some physique language, some emotions that you simply may expertise if you happen to’re having a sure emotion, what technique you may make use of if you happen to’re having that emotion.” And so – in all with the humor of this potato pants e-book. And so…
00:28:01 Hallie: I find it irresistible.
00:28:02 Julie: It has been nice. And I imply, after all, the potatoes run to this retailer as a result of the man is having a sale on pants. So you already know that, you already know – we design ugly sweaters at Christmas time. After all, we will be designing our pants. And the youngsters have simply already taken to the books like a fish to water-
00:28:20 Hallie: And you may play sizzling potato.
00:28:22 Julie: Nicely, and that was the sport we talked about as properly. And in our backyard, outdoors our window, guess what they’re rising?
00:28:31 Hallie: Potato crops.
00:28:32 Julie: Yeah. And so I talked with our science coach and requested when the potatoes can be prepared as a result of you may most likely think about we’ll be on the market within the grime.
00:28:41 Hallie: And there is so many differing types [inaudible]. You’ll be able to examine and distinction them, you already know, the [inaudible] ones versus the crimson ones.
00:28:47 Julie: Precisely. And you already know, after which if the lecturers need to go as far as to have a potato graph and, you already know, deliver in numerous sorts of potatoes to strive, it is all them. However yeah, it has been actually cute.
00:29:00 Hallie: I find it irresistible.
00:29:01 Julie: We decide a model, and this one, potatoes are sort of a very particular theme. I haven’t gone that particular earlier than, however I actually just like the e-book.
00:29:11 Hallie: What recommendation would you give to your earlier SLP self that was first beginning to incorporate literacy-based remedy? What recommendation would you give to her?
00:29:19 Julie: Wow. Oh, that is a troublesome one. In all probability I want you had realized this sooner as a result of it actually, one, I get pleasure from it a lot. It is simply enjoyable. And it is actually cool to have the ability to attain your children on like a private degree, like as a result of we snort quite a bit. I imply, how will you not snort whenever you’re speaking a few e-book known as Potato Pants? You understand, and the lecturers. Oh my gosh, I want I had included extra with my lecturers earlier on. I do not know that I’d have been ready to do that a lot in a earlier job. As a result of I am on this one constructing all week lengthy, it lends itself to that. However I actually want I had included books on this method earlier. I undoubtedly used books within the first few years I labored, however to not this capability and never this successfully.
00:30:07 Julie: And so yeah, it could be use books, discover good books, learn up on books, the blogs which might be on the market. You understand, we now have e-book reviewers, Instagram, Fb weren’t round once I first began. And so all of the publishers promote their books on Fb and Instagram. And so yow will discover so many cool sources and simply discover new books due to that. Simply discover and see what’s on the market and discover enjoyable books to succeed in your children with their objectives, but additionally to succeed in them as simply people.
00:30:41 Hallie: I really like that. Thanks a lot. The place can everybody study extra about you? And we will have hyperlinks within the present notes anyway, the place they will discover extra about you and every little thing it’s a must to provide.
00:30:49 Julie: Yeah. So I’m on Instagram. That is most likely the perfect place to seek out me. I’ve two final names. And so if you happen to’re in search of me, it’s @julieb2slp. And that is most likely the easiest way to seek out me. Yeah.
00:31:06 Hallie: Superior. Superior. And also you even have a course on speechtherapypd.com.
00:31:11 Julie: I do. I’ve performed a four-hour course on utilizing kids’s books in speech remedy and that’s on Speech Remedy PD. I’ve additionally performed a few podcasts with certainly one of their speech paths who has a podcast known as Faculty of Speech, and that is Carolyn Dolby’s podcast. One was on CFs, your CF right here, and the opposite one was on utilizing kids’s books. So yeah.
00:31:36 Hallie: Yay. I at all times finish my episodes with a joke. Because it builds repertoire and I figured a spring one can be probably the most applicable.
00:31:43 Julie: Find it irresistible.
00:31:43 Hallie: How do you inform that the climate is getting hotter?
00:31:49 Julie: Oh goodness. I don’t know.
00:31:50 Hallie: There is a spring in individuals’s steps.
00:31:52 Julie: Oh. I like that one.
00:31:55 Hallie: My corny dad jokes, you already know, right here, each week, deliver them to everybody.
00:32:00 Julie: I find it irresistible. That is superior.
00:32:02 Hallie: Thanks so, a lot, Julie. I do know everybody’s minds are wandering and so they’re most likely going straight to Amazon to get that Potato Pants e-book and incorporating these remedy concepts into their remedy classes. I really like the truth that you are leaving the speech room, collaborating with dad and mom, the lecturers, all the opposite professionals working with the identical kids, the librarian. You shared so many superb concepts. So thanks so, a lot.
00:32:25 Julie: Oh, you are welcome. It was nice to be right here. Thanks for having me.
00:32:28 Hallie: After all. And till subsequent week, everybody, keep out of hassle.
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