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How To Write Therapy Goals That Are ND-Affirming

In this episode, we talk about:

✔ How to write neurodiversity affirming goals

✔ What to do when we inherit goals that are not ND affirming

✔ Suggestions for ND affirming goals for different age groups

✔ And more...

Access Higher Level Communication By Climbing The Language Staircase 

In this episode, we discuss:

✔ Why helping a child develop memorized "rote" language isn't enough (and why it's important to strive for more)...

✔ The commonly overlooked but extremely important prerequisites to basic and higher level communication 

✔ About the "holes" in autistic children's communication ability (and how you can begin to help fill them)...

✔ And more...

Supporting Gestalt Language Processors ft. SLP Alex Zachos

On this episode of Making the Shift we sit down with Alex Zachos from Meaningful Speech to talk about gestalt language processing.

Alex is an SLP, a business owner, a wife, and a mom who is committed to learning and growing as a speech-language pathologist and sharing her knowledge and experience about gestalt language processing.

She is the founder of Meaningful Speech LLC whose mission is to educate speech-language professionals, parents, and those working in related fields about gestalt language development and delayed echolalia.