The Preschool SLP: KellyVessSLP
Kelly Vess, MA, CCC-SLP
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S5 220. What a Dying Friend Taught Me About Being an SLP
This episode is a message on humanism, mission, and showing up fully for every child. It's not a question of whether the child can do it. Of course they can. It's only a question of how. This week's…
S5 219. The 3 Questions Every SLP Must Ask Before Summer Break
End-of-Year Reflect & Recap: The 3 Questions Every SLP Needs to Ask Right Now Whether you're a seasoned SLP or fresh out of grad school, the most powerful professional development you'll do this…
S5 218. Stop Winging Consonant Cluster Targets: Apply the Evidence-Based Complexity Approach
Are you winging it when it comes to picking consonant clusters? If you're spending more time hunting for the right targets than actually running therapy, this episode is your reset button. In today's…
S5 217. Do You Dare Disturb the Universe? The Asthma & Speech Sound Disorder Connection Nobody's Talking About
You're welcome. Because today, we're digging into something I bet you're seeing on your back porch right now, and nobody is talking about it. Asthma and speech sound disorders. If you have a child on…
S5 216. Bilingual Kids on Your Caseload? The 5-Step 'Good Enough' Plan When You Don't Speak Their Language
You opened your caseload. Another Spanish-speaking kiddo. You don't speak Spanish. There's no translator. No bilingual SLP down the hall. Now what? You don't freeze. You don't refer out. You don't…
S5 215. Bilingual Spanish Speech Assessment for $0: The 8-Step Gold Standard Every SLP Needs
Have zero dollars in your therapy closet for bilingual Spanish assessments? You are not alone — and you are not stuck. In this episode, I walk you through the 8-step gold-standard process for…
S5 214. Why Speech Therapy Falls Apart for Kids with ADHD+Anxiety (And How to Fix It)
If you’re feeling like your therapy sessions are “working” but chugging along at a slow pace, this episode is going to hit a nerve in the best way. Because here’s the truth that most of us weren’t…
S5 213. Stop Waiting: Why You Should Treat a Frontal Lisp in Preschool (And How to Do It Right)
When it comes to making real, measurable change in therapy, we have to stop thinking small. In this episode, we are digging into what actually moves the needle for our preschoolers and early…
S5 212. Stop Waiting for Joint Attention. You’re Delaying Language.
If you work with children who have autism, minimal joint attention, and limited expressive language, this episode challenges what you’ve been taught and replaces it with something far more…
S5 211. The Social Cost of Speech Sound Disorders at Age 4, 5, and 6: What Every Preschool SLP Needs to Know
If you work with four, five, or six-year-olds with speech sound disorders, this episode was made for you and this research will change how you document, advocate, and make eligibility decisions for…
S5 210. The Hidden Visual Processing Problem Affecting Language in Autism
If you work with children with autism, developmental delays, or complex communication needs, this episode is a must-listen. Today, we’re talking about cerebral visual impairment, or CVI, and why it…
S5 209. DTTC for AAC: The 5-Step Prompting Framework That Builds Independence Fast
Many clinicians are told there is a right way to prompt AAC users. You may have heard that you should always use least-to-most prompting. Others insist most-to-least prompting is best. But what does…
S5 208. The 5-Step Therapy Routine That Works for Every Child on Your Caseload
Feeling overwhelmed by a caseload that includes autism, childhood apraxia of speech, developmental language disorder, articulation, fluency, and AAC users… all back-to-back? You are not alone. Many…
S5 207. DTTC Isn’t Just for Apraxia: A Scaffolding Blueprint for Speech, Language, Literacy, Fluency, and AAC
What do Gustav Eiffel and dynamic, tactile, temporal cueing have in common? Scaffolding, vision, and the courage to aim higher than anyone else. In this episode, I break down why Dynamic, Tactile,…
S5 206. Why Traditional Speech Therapy Misses Drooling: What Works Instead
If you work with children who drool, this episode is for you. I’m pulling back the curtain on an approach I’ve used for over 15 years that has consistently reduced—and often eliminated—drooling in…
S5 205. What 707 Autistic Preschoolers Reveal About Who Develops Speech—and Who Doesn’t
If you work with preschoolers with autism and you care about spoken language outcomes, this episode matters. A lot. In today’s episode of The Preschool SLP Podcast, we unpack the largest study to…
S5 204. The R Workout: Applying Exercise Science to Fix the Hardest Sound in Speech
What if the problem with treating the R sound isn’t the child—but the way we train it? In today’s episode, we step outside the field of speech-language pathology and borrow powerful, evidence-based…
S5 203. Consonant Clusters Aren’t Too Hard: They’re the Shortcut.
Are consonant clusters really “too complex” for kids with severe speech sound disorders—or have we been aiming too low? This episode tackles one of the most persistent myths in speech therapy: that…
S5 202. When AAC Feels Hard, It’s Working: What Effective Clinicians Do Differently
If you work with children who are minimally speaking with autism or you love a child who is minimally speaking, today’s episode matters. Over the past year, I’ve been doing something deeply…
S4 Six Self-Care Swaps for Peak Performance in Therapy
If you work with children who have complex communication needs, you already know this truth: You cannot pour from an empty cup. In this episode, I share six realistic self-care swaps I use from…
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