224. Rate Your Own Speech Therapy: 5 Questions That Separate Good Sessions From Life-Changing Ones

Would your therapy sessions pass a research review? 🔬In this episode, I'm pulling back the curtain on my experience as a proposal reviewer for the Council for Exceptional Children, and I'm handing you the exact 5 criteria reviewers use, reframed as a self-evaluation for YOUR therapy sessions. Rate yourself 1 to 5 in each area and find out exactly where to grow this summer.In this episode, you'll learn:🎯 Relevance. Is the skill you're targeting truly essential? I'll share why storytelling may be the single most pivotal skill for children with developmental language disorder, and why a year spent on one grammatical morpheme probably isn't changing anyone's life.📐 Alignment. Do your objectives actually build toward the big skill, or are they busywork dressed up as goals?⚡ Functionality TODAY. I'll tell you why I target "non-functional" words like scrape on purpose, how one complex SKR blend can unlock F, V, S, Z, SH, CH and more for free, and why the higher you aim, the higher the gains.📊 Evidence. You need numbers for every single detail of your practice. I'll show you how to vet those $400 boxed programs before they waste your 30 minutes a week, and what to do when the research just hasn't been done yet.👀 Active Participation. This is the one criterion that exposes wasted therapy time (looking at you, auditory bombardment). I'll describe what true engagement looks like, even with sensitive, reluctant, or freeze-response kiddos.Grab your scorecard, be honest, and build your plan to turn every 3 into a 5.⭐ Ready to stop guessing and start moving the needle?Join my SIS Membership today and get needle-moving treatment targets and done-for-you speech therapy activities delivered to you weekly, so every minute of your limited therapy time counts.👉 Join now: kellyvess.com/sisIf this episode helped you, follow the show and leave a 5-star review. It helps more SLPs find their way to life-changing therapy.