Episode 77: Telepractice - Expectations versus Reality

As SLPs, we always have so much on our plate. Lately it seems our workload has tripled! It isn't a mystery to why this is happening. Check out this episode of SLP Happy Hour to hear some expectations vs. reality of telepractice during the Coronaviru…

This episode explores the SLP session expectations the hosts had about telepractice versus their reality of actually running telepractice sessions during the Coronavirus Pandemic.



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Telepractice Expectations versus Reality

The cohosts discuss why some of their expectations about telepractice were way off and what their current telepractice realities are.



Self Care Challenge

Sarie discusses how working from home can encourage sedentary behavior, and how her steps goal has kept her moving.



Easy Lesson

Sarah dicusses what she’s been doing in her therapy sessions this month.

Younger students: Toy Theater Snakes and Ladders game, reading books (physical books, Hoopla app through the library and the Epic app), wordless YouTube videos

Older Students: Toy Theater Four Colors game, reading passages such as those from NewsELA or Readworks, and how she uses Google Docs for practice with story retell, vocabulary and comprehension



Sponsor

This episode was sponsored by the SLP Happy Hour Teacher’s Pay Teachers store, specifically the R Taco Truck Boom Cards Deck. This resource allows students to have fun building tacos and visiting a taco truck and practicing /R/ in words, phrases and sentences.

Are you an SLP looking for more telepractice lesson ideas? In Ep 77 of the SLP Happy Hour Podcast, the cohosts discuss the myths and realities of telepractice in 2020, and lesson ideas you can use in your speech room right now. #slpeeps #speechthera…