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Deep Dive into Using Bear Finds Eggs in Speech Therapy – Episode 46

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Deep Dive: Using Fletcher and The Springtime Blossoms in Speech Therapy – Episode 44

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Deep Dive: Using Love Monster in Speech Therapy – Episode 40

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Deep Dive: Using Brave Irene in Speech Therapy – Episode 34

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Deep Dive: Using Olive the Other Reindeer in Speech Therapy – Episode 31

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Deep Dive: Bone Soup – Episode 24

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Deep Dive: Officer Buckle and Gloria – Episode 18

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Deep Dive: The Invisible Boy – Episode 12

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Deep Dive: Using Ribbit! and Dude! in Speech Therapy – Episode 6

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There’s a difference between using a book for a th

There’s a difference between using a book for a themed activity and using a book AS the intervention.
When you’re systematically extracting clinical language targets: teaching tier 2 vocabulary, analyzing complex syntax, building inferential reasoning, mapping narrative structure—you’re not doing a “book theme.”
You’re delivering targeted language intervention with a research-backed tool.
This is clinical work. This is our expertise As SLPs. ❤️

Are you asking the RIGHT comprehension questions i

Are you asking the RIGHT comprehension questions in therapy?
If your students can answer “who, what, where” but still struggle with comprehension, they need inferential thinking practice—and that’s 100% in our scope as SLPs.
Literal questions test memory. Inferential questions build language, critical thinking, and the ability to “read between the lines.”
Students with language disorders often recall facts but miss deeper meaning: character motivations, cause-effect relationships, predictions, and social problem-solving.
Save this and use it with your next read-aloud. Your students need these skills to succeed academically.

No Sunday scaries! Get this free no prep goal writ

No Sunday scaries! Get this free no prep goal writing activity and your set! Comment “goals” and I’ll send the link to download.

Here’s why this matters clinically: Children with

Here’s why this matters clinically: Children with language disorders need explicit exposure to sophisticated vocabulary words WITH contextual support. Picture books provide rich, rare vocabulary alongside illustrations and narrative context that make these words learnable. This contextualized presentation is exactly what helps children build the foundation to eventually understand these words in more abstract, academic contexts.

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