Five “clinical containers” to design your language therapy system

About this episode

In this episode, Dr. Karen Dudek-Brannan discusses five clinical containers to enhance the design of language therapy systems for better scalability and effectiveness.

In episode 255 of De Facto Leaders, I elaborate on the concept of using vocabulary as a large “container”, so you can design sessions efficiently without sacrificing quality. I talk about why more experienced clinicians often struggle to make their interventions scalable, and why this gets in the way of carryover. I also share the five “containers” I use in my Language Therapy Advance Foundations program that can support skills like reading, writing, spelling, and language processing in ways that can be reinforced outside sessions. If you have a ton of knowledge relating to language and executive functioning, but don’t know how to organize it into a cohesive system… If you’re getting results in sessions, but it takes a ton of effort on your part and consumes all your capacity… If you’re able to scaffold and model “on-the-fly”, but struggle to explain your techniques to others so they can replicate them… Then you’ll find this concept of “containers” really useful. In this episode, I mentioned Language Therapy Advance Foundations, my program that gives speech pathologists a framework for building language skills needed to thrive in school, social situations, and daily life. You can…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Karen Dudek-Brannan

Topics covered

• language therapy
• clinical containers
• scalable interventions
• executive functioning
• speech pathology

Keywords

• language therapy
• clinical containers
• scalable interventions
• speech pathologists
• executive functioning

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Language Therapy Advance Foundations, drkarenspeech.com

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