Speech and Language Kids Podcast
by Carrie Clark, M.A. CCC-SLP
The Speech and Language Kids Podcast is BACK and better than ever! Learn how to treat communication challenges in children without losing yourself in the process. Speech-language pathologist Carrie Clark shares her best tips, tricks, and strategies to help children improve their communication skills in all areas: speech, articulation, phonology, language, literacy, social communication, stuttering, voice, AAC, functional communication, and more! Plus, Carrie will walk you through the best ways to save time and streamline what you do so your clients make faster progress and you can be more effective in less time (and stop taking work home)! Listen to the live recordings inside The Hub at Hub.SpeechAndLanguageKids.com
Episodes
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Voice/Resonance Curriculums for Speech Therapy
Voice/Resonance Curriculums for Speech Therapy Comprehensive Plans for Improving Vocal Quality and Resonance Our voice and resonance curriculums provide a clear, structured approach for helping children and teens improve their vocal quality, projection, and resonance in healthy, sustainable ways....
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Fluency Curriculums for Speech Therapy
Fluency/Stuttering Curriculums for Speech Therapy Comprehensive Plans for Helping Children who Stutter Our fluency curriculums provide a clear, organized framework for helping children who stutter or have other disfluencies develop the tools they need to communicate effectively. Each plan teaches...
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Social Communication Curriculums for Speech Therapy
Social Communication Curriculums for Speech Therapy Step-by-Step Plans to Help Children and Teens Build Real Connections Our social communication curriculums provide a clear, structured pathway for teaching social skills in a logical progression — from foundational interaction skills to complex...
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Functional Communication Curriculums for Speech Therapy
Functional Communication Curriculums for Speech Therapy A Step-by-Step Plan to Help Children Communicate Their Basic Wants and Needs Give children the tools to express themselves — even if they’re just starting to find their voice. Our functional communication curriculums guide you through…
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Language Curriculums for Speech Therapy
Language Curriculums for Speech Therapy Comprehensive Plans for Boosting Language Skills Stop spending hours hunting for language activities that only partly fit your students’ needs. Our comprehensive language curriculums give you ready-made therapy plans to help children understand others,...
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Speech Sound Curriculums for Speech Therapy
Speech Sound Curriculums for Speech Therapy Step-by-Step Plans to Help Children Speak Clearly and Confidently Stop piecing together random articulation activities. Our comprehensive speech sound curriculums give you ready-to-use therapy plans that make it easy to improve speech clarity—in…
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Special Announcement!
Special Announcement: Speechie Summer Camp Is Here! This Summer, Get Organized and Have Fun! In this special announcement episode of the Speech and Language Kids Podcast, Carrie Clark shares exciting news about what’s happening this summer inside The Hub. If you’re a school-based SLP, SLPA, or…
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Announcing: Summer Camps and Teams Program
Announcing: Summer Camps and Teams Program In this short and exciting update episode, Carrie Clark announces two brand new virtual summer camp experiences inside the Speech and Language Kids Hub—one for parents & caregivers, and one for SLPs and related professionals! Plus, get an exclusive sneak...
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How to Do Speech Therapy at Home
How to Do Speech Therapy at Home Do you want to help your child improve their communication skills at home but aren’t sure where to start? Whether you’re on a waiting list for services or just want to boost your child’s progress between sessions, this episode is for you. Carrie Clark, SLP and...
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Teaching Children to Follow Directions
Teaching Children to Follow Directions Does your child (or student) struggle to follow directions? You’re not alone! In this episode of the Speech and Language Kids Podcast, Carrie Clark, SLP and founder of SpeechAndLanguageKids.com, walks you through how to teach children to follow...
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Building Therapy Plans for Children with AAC
Building Therapy Plans for Children with AAC Do you work with children who use communication devices or systems to express themselves? Whether it’s a high-tech talker, sign language, or picture boards, AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) comes in many forms—and it’s essential that we...
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Cycles Approach for Language – Treating Multiple Areas of Language Simultaneously
Cycles Approach for Language: Treating Multiple Areas of Language Simultaneously When a child is struggling in more than one area of language, how do you decide what to work on first? In this episode, Carrie Clark, SLP and creator of the Speech and Language Kids Hub, shares her approach to…
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Ahmad’s Story – Childhood Apraxia of Speech and the Motor Speech Pathway
Ahmad’s Story: Childhood Apraxia of Speech and the Motor Speech Pathway In this episode, Carrie shares the story of a sweet 5-year-old boy named Ahmad (name changed for privacy) and his journey with childhood apraxia of speech. From using AAC to working through early speech sounds, Carrie walks...
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Arianna’s Story: Preschool Speech and Language
Arianna’s Story: Preschool Speech and Language How do you know where to start with a preschooler who’s hard to understand? In today’s episode, I’m walking you through a real-life case study of a sweet little one (we’ll call her Arianna) who had significant speech and language challenges. I’ll…
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Speech/Language Therapy 101: Back to Basics for SLPs and Caregivers
Speech/Language Therapy 101: Back to Basics for SLPs and Caregivers Are you looking for the simplest, most effective way to teach communication skills to children and teens? Well, search no farther! I’m speech-language pathologist Carrie Clark and in today’s episode of The Speech and Language…
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The Teletherapy Playbook: Proven Strategies for Faster Progress in Virtual Speech Sessions
The Teletherapy Playbook: Proven Strategies for Faster Progress in Virtual Speech Sessions It’s no secret that teletherapy speech/language therapy services soared during the pandemic. Telepractice use among SLPs jumped from just 3.9% pre-pandemic to 88% by 2021. (source) And while teletherapy...
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A Therapy Pathway for Frontal and Lateral Speech Errors (aka “Lisps”)
A Therapy Pathway for Frontal and Lateral Speech Errors (aka “Lisps”) Today we’re talking about “lisps”. But many professionals are moving away from using the term lisp because it often carries a negative or stigmatizing connotation, especially outside of clinical contexts. Instead, we’re…
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From Chaos to Clarity: Why One-Off Activities Are Failing Your Therapy Sessions
From Chaos to Clarity: Why One-Off Activities Are Failing Your Therapy Sessions You spend all evening scouring the internet for the perfect activity for little Timmy. You print. You cut. You laminate. You velcro. He’s gonna love it. And then… …it lasts all of two seconds and then he’s bored. I’m...
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Speech/Language Progress Monitoring Tools Now Available…Free!
Free Speech/Language Progress Monitoring Tools Now Available! Well, the flu has hit my house! Instead of a full podcast episode today, I’m giving you a quick update about our new progress monitoring tools located inside The Speech and Language Kids Hub. Here’s how it works: 1. Fill Out the Free...
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When Should Children be Able to Say Certain Sounds? (And How Can We Help?)
When Should Children be able to Say Certain Sounds? (And How Can We Help? One of the top questions I get is about whether or not a child should be saying certain speech sounds. Let me tell you, there is a WIDE range of normal when it comes to speech sound acquisition. But in general, we know that...
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Listen in on our Live Speech Therapy Planning Call
Listen in on our Live Speech Therapy Planning Call! On today’s episode of the Speech and Language Kids Podcast, I’m taking you inside our members-only area! Listen in as we run one of our monthly planning calls. We’re helping members build sessions and plan a full month of therapy at once. Join…
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From Echolalia and Scripting to Original Speech: Top Strategies for Gestalt Language Processors
From Echolalia and Scripting to Original Speech: Top Strategies for Gestalt Language Processors “My child isn’t talking yet but he can sing songs or repeat lines/scripts from movies.” Or… “My child simply repeats what everyone else says.” These are the kinds of things I hear from parents of...
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AAC Apps and How to Use Them (in 2025)
AAC Apps and How to Use Them Augmentative/Alternative Communication (AAC) allows a child who can’t speak to let us know what they want or need. It reduces frustration and increases communication. And with smart devices being so readily available, AAC apps make it even easier to access these…
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The Future of Speech and Language Kids (and our Profession)
The Future of Speech and Language Kids (and our Profession) There is a lot of uncertainty in the world of education right now. And even before talks of reducing funding for education, speech-language professionals were overworked and under-supported. But amidst this stress and uncertainty, I…
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Speech Therapy Ideas for Functional Communication: Communicating Wants and Needs
Speech Therapy Ideas for Functional Communication: Communicating Wants and Needs How do you help a child who can’t speak to tell you what they need? What about a little one who has meltdowns and tantrums but can’t tell you why? How can we teach a child some basic, functional communication skills...
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The Cycles Therapy Approach for Children who are Very Hard to Understand
The Cycles Therapy Approach for Children who are Very Hard to Understand If you haven’t tried the Cycles Approach to phonology therapy yet, you’re missing out! This is an amazing therapy method that is especially designed for children who are highly unintelligible and who have multiple…
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Using AI to Generate Custom Materials for Speech/Language Therapy
Using AI to Generate Custom Materials for Speech/Language Therapy Imagine being able to snap your fingers and instantly create a 3rd grade reading passage that’s all about Minecraft and is packed full of /r/ words. Do you have anyone on your caseload that could use that? What about a word list of...
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Sensory and Movement Ideas for Better Participation and Behavior
Sensory and Movement Ideas for Better Participation and Behavior Little Alex comes into your therapy space like a Tasmanian Devil! He hasn’t stopped moving since he stepped foot in the door and he’s touched everything in reach. In fact, half of your stuff is already on the floor. What’s a…
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No-Prep Ideas for Language Therapy
No-Prep Ideas for Language Therapy It’s No-Prep December and that means that I’m challenging you NOT to prep any therapy activities for the whole month. But how do we do that for language therapy? How do we do it for younger children? Or teenagers? Or elementary-aged students? Is it possible to…
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No-Prep Group Speech/Language Therapy Ideas
No-Prep Group Speech/Language Therapy Ideas When you’re a speech-language pathologist with a caseload of 70 or more kids, group therapy is a necessary evil. Sometimes it feels like group speech/language therapy only happens because we don’t have enough time to see each child individually. But…
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How to NOT Take Data during Speech/Language Therapy
How to NOT Take Data during Speech/Language Therapy Data or it didn’t happen, right?? As speech-language professionals, it is crucial that we collect data to know exactly how our clients are doing. Or is it? Today we’re going to explore the questions of how much data do you ACTUALLY need to…
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No-Prep December Challenge! I Challenge You to Do Less
No-Prep December Challenge! I Challenge you to do Less Do you think you could go a full month without prepping any activities for therapy? Would you like to try? December is a notoriously busy month and usually our clients and students are all zany with that “pre-holiday” energy. So how about…
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Set up a Folder System for Effortless Speech Therapy Sessions
Set up a Folder System for Effortless Speech Therapy Sessions Your students come into your therapy space and they know what to do. They grab their speech folders from the bin by the door. They walk to the table and sit down. They open their folders and get out their practice page. And they start...
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The Way of the Unstressed Speechie: Speech Therapy without Tears
If you’re a speech-language pathologist, SLPA, SALT or some other alphabet soup doing speech therapy with kids… And you’re stressed out… And overwhelmed… You are not alone! There are so many kids right now that need support and not enough of us to go around. So what’s an SLP to do? Well don’t...
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Why Use AAC for Toddlers or Children?
Why Use AAC for Toddlers or Children? AAC devices are augmentative/alternative communication systems that allow a person to communicate with those around them without speaking. There are many different types of AAC but the most common are high-tech AAC Devices that allow a person to push a button...
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Why Do Speech Therapists Group Children Together?
In this episode of the Speech and Language Kids Podcast, speech-language pathologist Carrie Clark discusses the benefits of groups speech therapy for children and why speech therapists group children together. Carrie also discusses the types of cases that benefit from individual therapy. Click…
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The Speech Therapist’s Role in Reading and Writing in Children and Adolescents
The SLP’s Role in Helping Children and Adolescents with Reading and Writing Skills In this episode of The Speech and Language Kids Podcast, speech-language pathologist Carrie Clark discusses what speech therapists can do to help with literacy (reading and writing) skills in children and...
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Hypernasality Speech Therapy: Treatment Activities
Hypernasality Speech Therapy: Treatment Ideas for Hypernasal Speech Hypernasality occurs when a child speaks with too much nasal resonance. Airflow tends to be directed up into the nasal cavity during speech instead of primarily through the oral cavity. Nasal emission is when that air comes all…
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Speech Therapy for Stuttering: Exercises to Help a Stuttering Child
Speech Therapy for Stuttering: Exercises to Help a Stuttering Child How can we help children and teens who stutter? There are many speech therapy techniques and exercises that we can use to help individuals speak more fluently. On this page, we’ll show you how to do speech therapy for stuttering…
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Childhood Apraxia of Speech | Treatment Ideas and Exercises
Childhood Apraxia of Speech | Treatment Ideas and Exercises Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) is a motor speech disorder where a child knows what they want to say but the sounds won’t come up correctly. We can help children with CAS with speech therapy activities and exercises to boost motor…
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Speech Therapy for Non-Verbal Children: Building Functional Communication
Therapy for Non-Speaking Children: How to Boost Functional Communication Skills Do you know a child with autism who isn’t able to communicate basic wants and needs? Does the child lack the social skills to participate in social interactions? Do you need a guide for how to improve functional...
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Communication Repair Strategies ~ Speech Therapy Activities
Communication Repair Strategies ~ Speech Therapy Activities “What did you say?” “You did what?” Sometimes a conversation breaks down and we have to find ways to repair it. But this can be a hard skill to learn! On this page, we’ll give you a list of communication repair strategies that you can...
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Improving Summarizing Skills in Children Through Literacy
Improving Summarizing Skills in Children through Literacy Instruction Today, speech-language pathologist Carrie Clark explains how to help a child learn to summarize an event or story through the use of literacy activities. Listen below! Free Activity: Main Idea and Details Get the 4-page…
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Working Smarter to Help Children with Speech and Language Skills
Learn how to reduce burn-out and stress whether you’re a speech therapist or a parent of a child with speech and language delays. (Episode 55 of the Speech and Language Kids Podcast) Manage Your Time Parents: Break practice sessions up into small chunks. 5 minutes in the morning and 5 at night is...
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Articulation and Phonological Therapy Approaches: How to Choose
Articulation Therapy or Phonological Therapy: Which Therapy Approach to Use Which therapy approach should you use when a child struggles to say sounds correctly? Articulation Therapy Approach? Phonological Therapy Approach? Something else? This page will explain the difference between an...
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Social Skills Lessons for Middle School | Speech Therapy Goals and Activities
Social Skills Lessons for Middle School | Speech Therapy Goals and Activities What social skills should middle school students have? What can we do to help 11-14 year-olds who are struggling with social skills? What are some social skill lessons for middle school that we can use in speech therapy...
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Speech Therapy Goals for Autism: 5 Areas to Consider
Speech Therapy Goals for Autism: 5 Areas to Consider Autistic children and teens can benefit from speech/language therapy to boost their communication skills. But what goals should we write for these clients? This page contains suggestions for 5 different speech therapy goals for autistic…
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Speech Therapy Materials List | Speech and Language Therapy for Kids
Speech Therapy Materials List | Speech and Language Therapy for Kids What speech therapy materials do I need to work with kids? What are the must-have therapy materials for speech and language? On this page, we’ll share our speech therapy material lists with the must-have resources for...
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Waiting Cards: Language-Boosting Alternatives for Screen Time
You’re driving in the car and your kid is growing antsy. Quickest solution: Hand him your smart phone! You’re waiting for your food a restaurant and the little ones are throwing the sugar packets at each other. Easiest solution: Turn on some cartoons on the tablet! It’s a rainy Saturday morning…
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How to Use Sock Puppets to Improve Grammar (Pronouns and Verb Tenses)
Sock Puppet Activity Idea for Teaching Grammar and Pronouns This fun therapy activity will let you work on grammar skills like pronouns and verb tenses while you’re playing with sock puppets. It’s cheap, it’s easy, and it’s SUPER fun! Check it out: Materials: Two Sock Puppets: Use tube socks and...
About this show
The Speech and Language Kids Podcast is BACK and better than ever! Learn how to treat communication challenges in children without losing yourself in the process. Speech-language pathologist Carrie Clark shares her best tips, tricks, and strategies to help children improve their communication skills in all areas: speech, articulation, phonology, language, literacy, social communication, stuttering, voice, AAC, functional communication, and more! Plus, Carrie will walk you through the best ways to save time and streamline what you do so your clients make faster progress and you can be more effective in less time (and stop taking work home)! Listen to the live recordings inside The Hub at Hub.SpeechAndLanguageKids.com
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Carrie Clark, M.A. CCC-SLP