Hi! It’s me, Jen, your SLP friend. I’m the host of The School SLP podcast, a place where we can chat about all things SLP-related - from planning, to practice, to paperwork.

Blog Posts + Show Notes

Jennifer Ligon Jennifer Ligon

Back To School Speech Therapy Plans: Early Developing Speech + Language Skills

Today is the day! It is time to share my back to school speech therapy plans with you. I’m going to differentiate the plans toward two main types of groups: early speech/language skills and later developing speech/language skills. For today’s purposes, I’m just going to just be sharing the main course of my therapy plans for my kiddos who are targeting early speech and language skills.

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Building a Schedule Proportional to Your SLP Workload

For FAR too long I have built my schedule proportional ONLY to my caseload and service delivery minutes. Of course we have to schedule around our service delivery minutes, but it’s important to create schedules that provide structured, built-in time for ALL elements of our job!

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Mentally Preparing for Back to School

Here are three things I’m focusing on to mentally prepare for back to school as the school SLP! Today I posted an episode on The School SLP Podcast that was spontaneous and unplanned because I had so many thoughts I need to gather after just a few days returning to work!

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Creating A Cozy Speech Therapy Room

On today’s episode we are talking about turning your speech therapy room into a cozy, welcoming place for both you and your students. Last year, being a speech therapy room designer was not my cup of tea. I had just had my third baby. I was returning from a severe back injury due to the birth of said baby. I was just trying to manage being a full-time working mama with three kids and a 45 minute commute.

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Jennifer Ligon Jennifer Ligon

Introduction

Hi! I’ve jumped into having a blog, a podcast, an Instagram page, and a TPT store, which are all in their little baby infancy stages right now, and I’ve not technically introduced myself here! I have been enjoying being creative and figuring how to share the things I’m making and preparing for work!

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Planning Speech Therapy Sessions

Another one bites the dust! I posted episode 2 and today on The School SLP Podcast. I talked about planning for speech therapy sessions. I’ve been planning ahead for the entire school year and have gotten through August-February so far. On today’s episode, I talked about my process for this.

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School SLP Summer Reset

The School SLP podcast officially launches! The School SLP podcast is for all things school SLP related from planning, to practice, to paperwork!

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Jennifer Ligon Jennifer Ligon

The School SLP

As an SLP with now 10+ years experience, I have had to remind myself to “fake it ‘til you make it” more times than I’d like to admit. In my early SLP years, it felt like I needed that mantra for nearly everything, nearly every day. Lately, guess what?

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