If you have ended your day as a school-based SLP and wondered, “What the heck did I do all day?” you are not alone. Between high caseloads, speech therapy referrals coming in every other day, and trying to see all your students on your speech therapy schedule, it feels like we have NO time left to do all the other caseload management tasks.

In today’s episode of the Real Talk SLP podcast, I am sharing my speech therapy schedule hacks that help me stay focused and productive on the must-dos for the day or week.

By taking about 20 minutes at the end or start of your week to plan out what you will do with your non-therapy time, you will find pockets of time that you can use to get important speech therapy tasks done.

You know, like progress reports, writing IEPs, scheduling meetings, programming AAC devices, planning therapy, assessing students, Medicaid billing, etc.

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In this Real Talk SLP episode, I share the following:

You will learn tips for how to up your productivity during the work day so that when you leave, the important things on your to-do list will be done. 

With this one small switch in how you view your work week, you won’t get distracted by emails, phone calls, or overbooking yourself and actually have time on your schedule to get stuff done!

How-to use Google Docs to create daily or weekly speech therapy schedules that you can duplicate to adjust your schedule.

Make your copy here of mine HERE. Use this Google Doc for each of your sites. If you are at one site or need a full weekly schedule view make a copy of this Google Sheet. 

Print out your weekly speech therapy schedule after you edit it in Google Docs. I prefer to make a copy of my previous speech schedule and write a new weekly date for digital tracking.

Once I fill it out, I print out the weekly schedule and keep it on a clipboard to take notes when I go around the school. This way, if I didn’t have a computer on me while co-teaching, I could take attendance for Medicaid billing.

Hey Hey Hey SLPs! Today we’re going to be talking about five tips for working ESY Services to make it a little bit more fun and successful.

In this episode you’ll hear:

5 tips for working ESY services:

1. Try something new
2.  plan by themes to cover your younger and older students.
3. pick books in your theme that can cover a wide range of skills and goals
4. Set a time when you will arrive and when you will leave
5. Keep things easy when you can

Podcast episodes mentioned:

https://thedabblingspeechie.com/2021/10/ep-60-three-things-to-do-before-you-co-teach/

https://thedabblingspeechie.com/2021/09/ep-53-strategies-for-a-push-in-model-with-audrey/

https://thedabblingspeechie.com/2021/06/ep-39-three-myths-of-push-in-therapy/

https://thedabblingspeechie.com/2021/04/ep-34-cooking-in-preschool-push-in-with-kristine/

https://thedabblingspeechie.com/2021/07/ep-44-how-to-cover-various-goals-using-themes/

https://thedabblingspeechie.com/2021/07/ep-45-why-i-use-themes-longer-than-a-week/

(Please link these with a title such as Episode 34 – Cooking in Preschool Push-In with Kristine

Resources Mentioned:

ESY Language Push-In Bundle

FREE Summer YouTube Video Google Slides

Push-In Set Up

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1. you may need to stay at the syllable level longer
2. you’re not incorporating phonological awareness
3. incorporating self-monitoring Into your session
4. you’re not varying tasks to provide naturalistic opportunities to practice 

It makes all the difference to have a cheat sheet to reference for sound-loaded words to target while reading a book, a passage or a play activity.

That’s why in the Themed Therapy SLP membership you get a speech sound word list for the theme as well as words broken up by speech sounds for the toy guide and book cheat sheets.

This helps you run a mixed group much easier knowing you have a resource to help you target all the goals. Sign up for the waitlist for the themed therapy SLP membership because the membership is re-opening summer 2022 and you don’t want to miss details!

Start asking your employer if they would support you this coming school year as we take purchase orders and have group rates.

Blog Posts and Resources Mentioned:

FREE Articulation Carryover Ultimate Set

Articulation Carryover Activities BUNDLE set

FREE Articulation Syllable Printable

Digital Speech Folders – has phonological awareness tasks

 Hey Hey Hey SLPs! Today we’re going to be talking about 4 things that you can streamline in your caseload.  Over the years, I would look at what was causing me stress or areas where I felt like I was always scrambling to get things completed. Then, I asked myself, “What could I do to make this easier to execute?” I would develop systems by taking small actionable steps to get better. When we have things streamlined, when we have systems set in place, we are able to do a good job and serve our students well.

In this episode you’ll hear:

4 Things You Can Streamline with your caseload:

• Your speech referral process
• Your speech reports
• Where your materials are located
• Your weekly speech therapy schedule

Let someone else take lesson planning off your plate because I know how much you already have on it! Get on the www.themedtherapyslp.com waitlist because doors are re-opening summer 2022.

Blog Posts and Resources Mentioned:

Why I Have a Speech Referral Process

Using Google Forms for Speech Referrals

How to Write a Speech Report Like a Rockstar

Organizing Speech Therapy Materials

Articulation Organization Container

Google Sheets Weekly and Daily School Calendar (click to make a copy)

Google Docs Weekly Calendar for one site

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