Speech and Language Kids Podcast
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Speech and Language Kids Podcast
The Speech and Language Kids Podcast is BACK and better than ever! Learn how to treat communication challenges in children without losing yourself in the process. Speech-language pathologist Carrie Clark shares her best tips, tricks, and strategies to help children improve their communication sk...
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Special Announcement!
🎙️ Special Announcement: Speechie Summer Camp Is Here! 🏕️ This Summer, Get Organized and Have Fun! In this special announcement episode of the Speech...
Announcing: Summer Camps and Teams Program
Announcing: Summer Camps and Teams Program In this short and exciting update episode, Carrie Clark announces two brand new virtual summer camp experi...
How to Do Speech Therapy at Home
How to Do Speech Therapy at Home Do you want to help your child improve their communication skills at home but aren’t sure where to start? Whether yo...
Teaching Children to Follow Directions
Teaching Children to Follow Directions Does your child (or student) struggle to follow directions? You're not alone! In this episode of the Speech an...
Building Therapy Plans for Children with AAC
Building Therapy Plans for Children with AAC Do you work with children who use communication devices or systems to express themselves? Whether it's a...
Cycles Approach for Language – Treating Multiple Areas of Language Simultaneously
Cycles Approach for Language: Treating Multiple Areas of Language Simultaneously When a child is struggling in more than one area of language, how do...
Ahmad’s Story – Childhood Apraxia of Speech and the Motor Speech Pathway
Ahmad's Story: Childhood Apraxia of Speech and the Motor Speech Pathway In this episode, Carrie shares the story of a sweet 5-year-old boy named Ahma...
Arianna’s Story: Preschool Speech and Language
Arianna's Story: Preschool Speech and Language How do you know where to start with a preschooler who’s hard to understand? In today’s episode, I’m wa...
Speech/Language Therapy 101: Back to Basics for SLPs and Caregivers
Speech/Language Therapy 101: Back to Basics for SLPs and Caregivers Are you looking for the simplest, most effective way to teach communication skill...
The Teletherapy Playbook: Proven Strategies for Faster Progress in Virtual Speech Sessions
The Teletherapy Playbook: Proven Strategies for Faster Progress in Virtual Speech Sessions It's no secret that teletherapy speech/language therapy se...
A Therapy Pathway for Frontal and Lateral Speech Errors (aka “Lisps”)
A Therapy Pathway for Frontal and Lateral Speech Errors (aka "Lisps") Today we're talking about "lisps". But many professionals are moving away from...
From Chaos to Clarity: Why One-Off Activities Are Failing Your Therapy Sessions
From Chaos to Clarity: Why One-Off Activities Are Failing Your Therapy Sessions You spend all evening scouring the internet for the perfect activity...
Speech/Language Progress Monitoring Tools Now Available…Free!
Free Speech/Language Progress Monitoring Tools Now Available! Well, the flu has hit my house! Instead of a full podcast episode today, I'm giving you...
When Should Children be Able to Say Certain Sounds? (And How Can We Help?)
When Should Children be able to Say Certain Sounds? (And How Can We Help? One of the top questions I get is about whether or not a child should be sa...
Listen in on our Live Speech Therapy Planning Call
Listen in on our Live Speech Therapy Planning Call! On today's episode of the Speech and Language Kids Podcast, I'm taking you inside our members-onl...
From Echolalia and Scripting to Original Speech: Top Strategies for Gestalt Language Processors
From Echolalia and Scripting to Original Speech: Top Strategies for Gestalt Language Processors "My child isn't talking yet but he can sing songs or...
AAC Apps and How to Use Them (in 2025)
AAC Apps and How to Use Them Augmentative/Alternative Communication (AAC) allows a child who can't speak to let us know what they want or need. It re...
The Future of Speech and Language Kids (and our Profession)
The Future of Speech and Language Kids (and our Profession) There is a lot of uncertainty in the world of education right now. And even before talks...
Speech Therapy Ideas for Functional Communication: Communicating Wants and Needs
Speech Therapy Ideas for Functional Communication: Communicating Wants and Needs How do you help a child who can't speak to tell you what they need?...
The Cycles Therapy Approach for Children who are Very Hard to Understand
The Cycles Therapy Approach for Children who are Very Hard to Understand If you haven't tried the Cycles Approach to phonology therapy yet, you're mi...
Using AI to Generate Custom Materials for Speech/Language Therapy
Using AI to Generate Custom Materials for Speech/Language Therapy Imagine being able to snap your fingers and instantly create a 3rd grade reading pa...
Sensory and Movement Ideas for Better Participation and Behavior
Sensory and Movement Ideas for Better Participation and Behavior Little Alex comes into your therapy space like a Tasmanian Devil! He hasn't stopped...
No-Prep Ideas for Language Therapy
No-Prep Ideas for Language Therapy It's No-Prep December and that means that I'm challenging you NOT to prep any therapy activities for the whole mont...
No-Prep Group Speech/Language Therapy Ideas
No-Prep Group Speech/Language Therapy Ideas When you're a speech-language pathologist with a caseload of 70 or more kids, group therapy is a necessar...
How to NOT Take Data during Speech/Language Therapy
How to NOT Take Data during Speech/Language Therapy Data or it didn't happen, right?? As speech-language professionals, it is crucial that we collect...
No-Prep December Challenge! I Challenge You to Do Less
No-Prep December Challenge! I Challenge you to do Less Do you think you could go a full month without prepping any activities for therapy? Would you...
Set up a Folder System for Effortless Speech Therapy Sessions
Set up a Folder System for Effortless Speech Therapy Sessions Your students come into your therapy space and they know what to do. They grab their spe...
The Way of the Unstressed Speechie: Speech Therapy without Tears
The Way of the Unstressed Speechie: Speech Therapy without Tears If you’re a speech-language pathologist, SLPA, SALT or some other alphabet soup doing...
Why Use AAC for Toddlers or Children?
Why Use AAC for Toddlers or Children? AAC devices are augmentative/alternative communication systems that allow a person to communicate with those ar...
Why Do Speech Therapists Group Children Together?
In this episode of the Speech and Language Kids Podcast, speech-language pathologist Carrie Clark discusses the benefits of groups speech therapy for...
The Speech Therapist’s Role in Reading and Writing in Children and Adolescents
In this episode of The Speech and Language Kids Podcast, speech-language pathologist Carrie Clark discusses what speech therapists can do to help with...
Hypernasality Speech Therapy: Treatment Activities
Hypernasality Speech Therapy: Treatment Ideas for Hypernasal Speech Hypernasality occurs when a child speaks with too much nasal resonance. Airflow...
Stuttering Therapy Techniques | Exercises and Activities
Stuttering Therapy Techniques: The purpose of speech therapy for children who stutter is to help them learn how to communicate effectively and easily....
Apraxia of Speech: Speech Therapy Activities for CAS
Childhood Apraxia of Speech: How to Do Speech Therapy for CAS Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) is a rare, neurologically-based speech disorder where...
Speech Therapy for Non-Verbal Children: Building Functional Communication
Therapy for Non-Speaking Children: How to Boost Functional Communication Skills Do you know a child with autism who isn't able to communicate basic wa...
Teaching Children to Repair Communication Breakdowns
How to Help a Child Repair Communication Breakdown "Communication Breakdown" is what we call it when something goes wrong in a conversation and there...
Improving Summarizing Skills in Children Through Literacy
Today, speech-language pathologist Carrie Clark explains how to help a child learn to summarize an event or story through the use of literacy activiti...
Working Smarter to Help Children with Speech and Language Skills
Learn how to reduce burn-out and stress whether you're a speech therapist or a parent of a child with speech and language delays. (Episode 55 of the...
Articulation and Phonological Therapy Approaches: How to Choose
Articulation and Phonological Therapy Approaches: What is the Best Speech Sound Therapy? It can be very difficult to figure out what type of speech s...
Social Skills Activities for Middle Schoolers: Speech Therapy Goals and Ideas
Social Skills Activities for Middle Schoolers: Speech Therapy Goals and Ideas Many of our children with language delays also have trouble with social...