Three Practices That Turn Language Therapy Into a Scalable System

About this episode

In this episode, Dr. Karen Dudek-Brannan shares three practices that help clinicians build their own language therapy systems for effective interventions.

Clinicians who are confidently delivering language and literacy interventions haven't found the perfect "therapy curriculum". They've learned how to build their own using three practices. In this episode, I share what those practices are, plus additional information on a free training I released that explains these concepts further. I cover: ✅ The concept of "clinical containers", and how you can use them to design your language therapy system, informed by my doctoral research and experience working in the schools for 10+ years. ✅ How to fill those linguistic containers over time using "asset stacking", so you're strategically adding layers of complexity one at a time. ✅ How to structure your planning so it fits into a realistic schedule, so each block of "plan" time you get moves you towards building your complete language therapy system. In this episode, I mentioned Language Therapy Advance Foundations, my program that gives speech pathologists a scalable framework for building language skills needed to thrive in school, social situations, and daily life. You can learn more about the program here: https://drkarenspeech.com/languagetherapy I also mentioned my free training…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Karen Dudek-Brannan

Topics covered

• language therapy
• literacy interventions
• clinical practices
• scalable systems
• speech pathology

Keywords

• language therapy
• scalable system
• clinical containers
• asset stacking
• planning

Sponsors

Playworks, IXL, Renaissance

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Language Therapy Advance Foundations, drkarenspeech.com

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