I don’t think I fully appreciated journal articles until I didn’t have ready access to them anymore. Don’t get me wrong, I still have access to my ASHA journals – and I love them and read them frequently. But there is more to research than just what ASHA publishes. Unfortunately for the typical SLP (at least here in the states) those articles and the research they represent is just out of reach.
Author Archives: Mary Huston, PhD; MS, CCC-SLP
Adventures in Awesomeness…
Yes, I know it’s not really a great title…but, I think it’ll make sense in a bit.
Like most SLPs I want to acknowledge how hard things can be – and do the happy dance when something goes well. It’s easy to reward the kids (they remind us constantly) but it’s not always as easy to remember to reward ourselves. No, I’m not talking about a cold beverage after work, or a vacation, or anything like that… but every once in a while it’s wonderful to be able to stand up and say:
“Hey world! Look at what happened today! I helped this happen!!!!”
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Are you BOARD? UNO I am! Plus a giveaway!!!
Adventures in RTI (part two)
My apologies if this seems disjointed from my other RTI post; however, when I was considering what to write about today, I realized there are some great resources available and I wanted to share.
As most everyone (at least here in the states) is aware, RTI is huge. It’s also very hard to implement well. Many times it seems as though RTI is implemented and then nothing happens. The students receive some help, but no one is quite sure if the data being taken is correct, if the intervention is the right intervention for the problem, or what to do once progress is (or isn’t) seen.
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Adjective Remix Winners!!
Happy Independence Day (for those of you here in the states!)
I’m happy to report we had more participants in this contest, apparently the news about the blog is getting out which makes me very happy. I love seeing how people from all over the world are looking at the blog. Hopefully the readers find the content worthwhile enough to refer it to friends.
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Hear Builder Following Directions – Part 1
This is the first of a two or three-part post about Hear Builder Following Directions, available from Super Duper. This first post will be about my initial reactions to the materials. The second post will be about my client’s (children) reactions to the content, and (hopefully) the third part will include some data to show effectiveness. If anyone is familiar with this software (or it’s sister software) I’d love to hear about it…Leave me a comment.
In the meantime, back to the review.
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Adjective Remix – Contest
Wow…we just finished one contest (Congratulations to Jan and Juli the winners) and we are starting another contest!!! How exciting.
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CONTEST WINNERS
I know you have ALL been waiting breathlessly to see who has won the two codes for Ice Cream Planets…right? Well, at least the 11 of you who commented have been!
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Adventures with speechBITE
I was reading twitter the other day and one of the #SLPeeps (I believe it was Caroline Bowen) mentioned this fabulous website.
This is directly from the website: “speechBITE™ is a database that provides open access to a catalogue of Best Interventions and Treatment Efficacy across the scope of Speech Pathology practice. This is an evidence based practice initiative between The University of Sydney and Speech Pathology Australia.”
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Ice Cream Monsters app Review and Contest
Who doesn’t like ice cream, rockets, and monsters? Put those three items into an interactive story book app and you have a guaranteed winner! What’s even nicer is that app creator and author, Erik Raj (who also happens to be an awesomely creative SLP), has offered to give not one – but two codes for this new app for me to give away to a lucky reader. I’ll get to the contest in just a minute…right now, let me review the app for you.
Speech Adventures 