The Speech PathWay

Tag: Speech therapy

  • What Does High Rep Articulation Therapy Look Like?

     I thought many of you might find some value in me breaking down what one of my therapy sessions looks like. I will give you an overview of a session I did this past week. The session was with a newly acquired private client who I did a session with at their school with her mother in…

  • Automaticity – The Key to Articulation Therapy

      When reflecting on the many courses I took in my academic career, there is one course that stands above the rest in terms of shaping me as a Speech Language Pathologist. Ironicaly it isn’t even a SLP specific course. Go figure. It was a course I took in “Cognitive Psychology” that had me write a paper…

  • Stimulability – The Foundation for Success.

    In the world of Speech Pathology, stimulability is a key concept.  It is one of the first things a Speech-Language Pathologist will look for once identifying the existence of a misarticulation.  So what is stimulability?  It is simply the client demonstrating the ability to accurately produce a target sound when given a model for that…

  • Speech Therapy Success – Speed and Repetition is Key

    First off,  I want to state for the record that I am not an academic.  I consider myself a problem solver.  I am someone who has worked with kids day in and day out for the past ten years to improve their articulation.  I often reflect on what I do as a clinician that makes…