The Speech Link with Char Boshart – Details, episodes & analysis

Guest: Sharlet Lee Jensen, MS, SLP, C-AAIS

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This episode explores animal-assisted intervention (AAI) in speech therapy. Sharlet explains the process and benefits of active and inactive animal involvement in addressing communication goals. She also explains what to look for in a therapy animal partner and how to try AAI through the “diamond model” of partnering with a volunteer team. Sharlet sees a positive future for AAI in speech therapy.

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Free Course: Intro to Executive Function Skills for Managing the Home

Enrollment Link: https://www.speechtherapypd.com/courses/executive-function-home-1 Presenter: Adina Soclof, MS, CCC-SLP This introductory course explores how executive functioning skills affect our ability to manage home life, work responsibilities, and parenting demands. Presenter Adina Soclof, MS, CCC-SLP, will highlight the essential executive skills that support organization, time management, and emotional regulation—especially for parents juggling busy households. You’ll learn practical strategies to strengthen your own executive functioning and support your children’s development of these skills as well. Helpful tools and resources will be shared to guide ongoing growth and success at home and beyond. This session lays the foundation for an in-depth follow-up course on August 10, where you’ll explore these concepts further and dive into more advanced strategies.

Guest: Hope Reed, SLP.D., CCC-SLP, COM®, ASHA Fellow - Dr. Reed shares practical techniques for SLPs in counseling and guiding clients, their families, and others. She says, “It is important to remember to address the person, not just the disorder.” Also, “When we have an agenda, listening stops.” She discusses the qualities of an effective counselor and universal strategies and mantras that can be effectively applied across settings and populations.

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Free Course: Intro to Executive Function Skills for Managing the Home

Enrollment Link: https://www.speechtherapypd.com/courses/executive-function-home-1 Presenter: Adina Soclof, MS, CCC-SLP This introductory course explores how executive functioning skills affect our ability to manage home life, work responsibilities, and parenting demands. Presenter Adina Soclof, MS, CCC-SLP, will highlight the essential executive skills that support organization, time management, and emotional regulation—especially for parents juggling busy households. You’ll learn practical strategies to strengthen your own executive functioning and support your children’s development of these skills as well. Helpful tools and resources will be shared to guide ongoing growth and success at home and beyond. This session lays the foundation for an in-depth follow-up course on August 10, where you’ll explore these concepts further and dive into more advanced strategies.

Guest: Jennifer Gray, MS, CCC-SLP - Research states that speech use drives language use through phonological memory and motor planning. However, those with Down syndrome are often encouraged to use nonverbal strategies (sign language, AAC, etc.) ahead of their speech abilities. Is this the best and most beneficial? This course investigates the research, rationale, and several alternatives. Practical therapy strategies will be shared.

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Free Course: Intro to Executive Function Skills for Managing the Home

Enrollment Link: https://www.speechtherapypd.com/courses/executive-function-home-1 Presenter: Adina Soclof, MS, CCC-SLP This introductory course explores how executive functioning skills affect our ability to manage home life, work responsibilities, and parenting demands. Presenter Adina Soclof, MS, CCC-SLP, will highlight the essential executive skills that support organization, time management, and emotional regulation—especially for parents juggling busy households. You’ll learn practical strategies to strengthen your own executive functioning and support your children’s development of these skills as well. Helpful tools and resources will be shared to guide ongoing growth and success at home and beyond. This session lays the foundation for an in-depth follow-up course on August 10, where you’ll explore these concepts further and dive into more advanced strategies.

Guest: Karyn Lewis Searcy, MA, CCC-SLP - This course defines ambiguous loss and how it can impact caregiver-child interactions. Ms. Searcy specifies how to assist families during stressful times and events, including the difficulties of communication disorders and delays. She covers the stressful details that caregivers can experience and how, if not addressed, it can negatively impact positive interactions and learning for the child.

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Free Course: Intro to Executive Function Skills for Managing the Home

Enrollment Link: https://www.speechtherapypd.com/courses/executive-function-home-1 Presenter: Adina Soclof, MS, CCC-SLP This introductory course explores how executive functioning skills affect our ability to manage home life, work responsibilities, and parenting demands. Presenter Adina Soclof, MS, CCC-SLP, will highlight the essential executive skills that support organization, time management, and emotional regulation—especially for parents juggling busy households. You’ll learn practical strategies to strengthen your own executive functioning and support your children’s development of these skills as well. Helpful tools and resources will be shared to guide ongoing growth and success at home and beyond. This session lays the foundation for an in-depth follow-up course on August 10, where you’ll explore these concepts further and dive into more advanced strategies.

Guest: Holly L. Storkel, PhD, CCC-SLP - Developmental language disorder (DLD) has gone by many names. Why does the name matter, especially when it doesn’t match the terminology used in schools (e.g., IDEA) or medical settings (e.g., ICD)? In this course, we will explore how and why you should share the term DLD with families and other team members.

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Free Course: Intro to Executive Function Skills for Managing the Home

Enrollment Link: https://www.speechtherapypd.com/courses/executive-function-home-1 Presenter: Adina Soclof, MS, CCC-SLP This introductory course explores how executive functioning skills affect our ability to manage home life, work responsibilities, and parenting demands. Presenter Adina Soclof, MS, CCC-SLP, will highlight the essential executive skills that support organization, time management, and emotional regulation—especially for parents juggling busy households. You’ll learn practical strategies to strengthen your own executive functioning and support your children’s development of these skills as well. Helpful tools and resources will be shared to guide ongoing growth and success at home and beyond. This session lays the foundation for an in-depth follow-up course on August 10, where you’ll explore these concepts further and dive into more advanced strategies.

Guest: Teresa Farnham, MA, CCC-SLP - We have explicitly known for over 3 decades that parents influence their child’s language development—especially vocabulary—with the quantity and quality of their input and interactions. In the 1980s, Hart & Risley conducted a remarkable research project examining the differences in preschool children's verbal environments. You’ll learn the pertinent and practical results that you can apply.

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Free Course: Intro to Executive Function Skills for Managing the Home

Enrollment Link: https://www.speechtherapypd.com/courses/executive-function-home-1 Presenter: Adina Soclof, MS, CCC-SLP This introductory course explores how executive functioning skills affect our ability to manage home life, work responsibilities, and parenting demands. Presenter Adina Soclof, MS, CCC-SLP, will highlight the essential executive skills that support organization, time management, and emotional regulation—especially for parents juggling busy households. You’ll learn practical strategies to strengthen your own executive functioning and support your children’s development of these skills as well. Helpful tools and resources will be shared to guide ongoing growth and success at home and beyond. This session lays the foundation for an in-depth follow-up course on August 10, where you’ll explore these concepts further and dive into more advanced strategies.

Guest: Jacqueline Towson, PhD, CCC-SLP - This course outlines practical strategies to implement during shared interactive book reading.  Embedding techniques will be shared to facilitate language and emergent literacy skills with young children with language impairments, developmental disabilities, or those considered at-risk. Considerations for book selection, preparation, setting, and environment will be discussed.

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Free Course: Intro to Executive Function Skills for Managing the Home

Enrollment Link: https://www.speechtherapypd.com/courses/executive-function-home-1 Presenter: Adina Soclof, MS, CCC-SLP This introductory course explores how executive functioning skills affect our ability to manage home life, work responsibilities, and parenting demands. Presenter Adina Soclof, MS, CCC-SLP, will highlight the essential executive skills that support organization, time management, and emotional regulation—especially for parents juggling busy households. You’ll learn practical strategies to strengthen your own executive functioning and support your children’s development of these skills as well. Helpful tools and resources will be shared to guide ongoing growth and success at home and beyond. This session lays the foundation for an in-depth follow-up course on August 10, where you’ll explore these concepts further and dive into more advanced strategies.

Guest: Holly L. Storkel, Ph.D., CCC-SLP - This course presents a variety of practical methods to enhance and systematically guide treatment success for children with speech sound disorders. For example, did you know that selecting complex sounds as your treatment target can accelerate speech sound learning? Or, that there are better ways to contrast sounds than conventional minimal pair treatment? All of this and more will be explained in detail.

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Free Course: Intro to Executive Function Skills for Managing the Home

Enrollment Link: https://www.speechtherapypd.com/courses/executive-function-home-1 Presenter: Adina Soclof, MS, CCC-SLP This introductory course explores how executive functioning skills affect our ability to manage home life, work responsibilities, and parenting demands. Presenter Adina Soclof, MS, CCC-SLP, will highlight the essential executive skills that support organization, time management, and emotional regulation—especially for parents juggling busy households. You’ll learn practical strategies to strengthen your own executive functioning and support your children’s development of these skills as well. Helpful tools and resources will be shared to guide ongoing growth and success at home and beyond. This session lays the foundation for an in-depth follow-up course on August 10, where you’ll explore these concepts further and dive into more advanced strategies.

Guest: Licia Coceani Paskay, MS, CCC-SLP - This course provides an overview of chewing that’s been researched within the medical and dental fields. Chewing is an overlooked and underestimated function that has a significant and well-documented impact on swallowing. Implications are covered from infants to the elderly. Chewing should take a more prominent role, especially in swallowing disorders.

Mentioned in this episode:

Free Course: Intro to Executive Function Skills for Managing the Home

Enrollment Link: https://www.speechtherapypd.com/courses/executive-function-home-1 Presenter: Adina Soclof, MS, CCC-SLP This introductory course explores how executive functioning skills affect our ability to manage home life, work responsibilities, and parenting demands. Presenter Adina Soclof, MS, CCC-SLP, will highlight the essential executive skills that support organization, time management, and emotional regulation—especially for parents juggling busy households. You’ll learn practical strategies to strengthen your own executive functioning and support your children’s development of these skills as well. Helpful tools and resources will be shared to guide ongoing growth and success at home and beyond. This session lays the foundation for an in-depth follow-up course on August 10, where you’ll explore these concepts further and dive into more advanced strategies.

Guest: Deborah Ross-Swain, EdD, CCC-SLP - School-aged children with language and learning differences are at risk for education trauma; some feel defeated. They’re often labeled as unmotivated, ADHD, lazy, unfocused, or oppositional. SLPs are a part of a collaborative team that can recognize and avoid this trauma and boosts a child’s educational success, confidence, and joy. Numerous practical and easy-to-apply strategies will be covered.

Mentioned in this episode:

Free Course: Intro to Executive Function Skills for Managing the Home

Enrollment Link: https://www.speechtherapypd.com/courses/executive-function-home-1 Presenter: Adina Soclof, MS, CCC-SLP This introductory course explores how executive functioning skills affect our ability to manage home life, work responsibilities, and parenting demands. Presenter Adina Soclof, MS, CCC-SLP, will highlight the essential executive skills that support organization, time management, and emotional regulation—especially for parents juggling busy households. You’ll learn practical strategies to strengthen your own executive functioning and support your children’s development of these skills as well. Helpful tools and resources will be shared to guide ongoing growth and success at home and beyond. This session lays the foundation for an in-depth follow-up course on August 10, where you’ll explore these concepts further and dive into more advanced strategies.