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You've probably never met a "Sarah" quite like me. Not only do I have a Chinese last name (Wu), but I'm a bilingual speech-language pathologist who speaks fluent Spanish. Let me throw you another curve ball: I'm a dual citizen! I was born in Australia. Currently, I live in the suburbs of Chicago.Don't even get me started on school lunch - I blogged a year about school lunch and wrote a book about school lunch reform: Fed Up With Lunch. I am starting my fifteenth year as a SLP. I'm older than the average speech path with more than ten years of experience because before I became an SLP, I worked for Kraft Foods. Yep, I was working in a cubicle before I had the revelation that, hey, I need to ... Read More about My Story

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Speech Therapy Case Study: Behavior Management and Presume Positive Intent

14 Feb

This video is all about a student I worked with that taught me a lot about my own attitude regarding behavior management. This might be basic info for you, depending on where you are in your journey, but when I learned about presuming positive intent, it helped me with my mindset. Never think that a student is coming from a…
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3 Mistakes Adults Make in Toddler Speech Therapy

29 Jan

I’m back at my videos with 3 Mistakes Adults Make in Toddler Speech Therapy. Filming videos has been tough because my kids are wandering all over the house and I’m trying to keep them out of clips (we are doing distance learning). But anyway, this video is kind of like my pet peeves with therapy with little ones. Things that…
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Speech Therapy with Toddlers – 3 Main Goals

30 Dec

I got a chance to record a video about Speech Therapy with Toddlers that I’ve been wanting to record for awhile. This video is focused on three main goals for therapy with toddlers. The reason I was motivated to make the video (I explain it in the video too) was that I have encountered parents who think therapy with toddlers looks too…
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40 Wordless Books for Speech Therapy

16 Dec

Wordless books are a great way to reach students in speech therapy. First of all, they take the burden of reading off the table for students who are non-readers or students still learning how to read. It’s a great way for students to get excited about books in a no-pressure kind of way. Additionally, as speech pathologists we can narrate…
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20 Live Cams to Use in Speech Therapy

2 Dec

I’m obsessed with live cams on YouTube and my favorites are ones from places I’d like to visit. But before I go any further, I should define what a “live cam” is. A live cam is a webcam placed somewhere by an individual or an organization in a location all over the world and the webcam then live-streams whatever is…
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Bilingual Speech Therapy Resources is in Chicago metropolitan area.

4 hours ago

Here's to strong women, may we know them, may we be them, may we raise them. We are celebrating women’s history month by paying homage to pioneers in the field of Speech Language Pathology: 🟡 Hallie Quinn Brown🟡 Sandra Holley Carter🟡 Dolores Battle🟡 Gloriajean Wallace🟡 Kay Payne🟡 Yvette Hyter🟡 Noma B. Anderson Follow along and learn about these women and more with @smilesforspeech on Instagram. We will be highlighting the accomplishments and contributions of amazing women all month. 💛👕💛Join in and support Smiles for Speech and order your #slpwomenshistorymonth shirt! Proceeds go towards the development of teletherapy programs in underserved populations in Kenya and Ghana. Check out the link at @smilesforspeech www.customink.com/fundraising/slpwomenshistory ... See MoreSee Less

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Day 2 of #englishmythorfact - here’s a question for you: Do some English words exist only in plural? 🧐 Swipe for the answer ➡️———-During the month of March, I’m going to share something about English (hopefully everyday). Welcome to English, Myth or Fact? #englishmythorfact As native speakers of English, we learned English on “auto-pilot.” We don’t know why we do the things we do - we just absorbed this language through living and we never analyzed it. Well, now we’re going to get meta! Many of us don’t fully understand the grammar, linguistics, and history behind our language. Let’s learn and unlearn what we did and didn’t know about English - and hopefully remove our biases in the process, too.To that end, I’m developing a course that will launch this spring called “English Grammar Workshop.” I’m probably 40% done with the course and the guidebook is already 30 pages long. English Grammar Workshop is going to help you build that grammatical and linguistic knowledge that many of us never knew before so that we can be confident in our native language and get rid of any biases and misinformation we may have held on to in the past. Let’s learn all about our curious, quirky, and imperfect native language English!Lastly: this entire series will be turned into a free PDF for you to download, keep, and share (after March)! ... See MoreSee Less

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Day 1 of #englishmythorfact - Does English have an official language? Swipe to find out ➡️ ———During the month of March, I’m going to share something about English (hopefully everyday). Welcome to English, Myth or Fact? #englishmythorfact As native speakers of English, we learned English on “auto-pilot.” We don’t know why we do the things we do - we just absorbed this language through living and we never analyzed it. Well, now we’re going to get meta! Many of us don’t fully understand the grammar, linguistics, and history behind our language. Let’s learn and unlearn what we did and didn’t know about English - and hopefully remove our biases in the process, too.To that end, I’m developing a course that will launch this spring called “English Grammar Workshop.” I’m probably 40% done with the course and the guidebook is already 30 pages long. English Grammar Workshop is going to help you build that grammatical and linguistic knowledge that many of us never knew before so that we can be confident in our native language and get rid of any biases and misinformation we may have held on to in the past. Let’s learn all about our curious, quirky, and imperfect native language English!Lastly: this entire series will be turned into a free PDF for you to download, keep, and share (after March)! ... See MoreSee Less

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During the month of March, I’m going to share something about English (hopefully everyday). 🤓Welcome to English, Myth or Fact? #englishmythorfact As native speakers of English, we learned English on “auto-pilot.” We don’t know why we do the things we do - we just absorbed this language through living and we never analyzed it. Well, now we’re going to get meta! Many of us don’t fully understand the grammar, linguistics, and history behind our language. Let’s learn and unlearn what we did and didn’t know about English - and hopefully remove our biases in the process, too.To that end, I’m developing a course that will launch this spring called “English Grammar Workshop.” I’m probably 40% done with the course and the guidebook is already 30 pages long. English Grammar Workshop is going to help you build that grammatical and linguistic knowledge that many of us never knew before so that we can be confident in our native language and get rid of any biases and misinformation we may have held on to in the past. Let’s learn all about our curious, quirky, and imperfect native language English!Lastly: this entire series will be turned into a free PDF for you to download, keep, and share (after March)! ... See MoreSee Less

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Bilingual Speech Therapy Resources is in Chicago, Illinois.

2 weeks ago

I support Black History being taught year round! I’ve liked what my kids are doing in class this month and I sat in on a lesson my second grader was learning all about Duke Ellington 🎼 My second grader likes jazz (my husband likes jazz so it has rubbed off) and was engaged. After it was over, I mentioned to my son that Duke Ellington faced racism and discrimination during his lifetime. He was shocked! The lesson was very positive about Mr Ellington’s life, so it didn’t go any deeper into racism. I’m not an expert but I think touching on racism would have been a good idea. At least we talked about it here at home. Curious about your thoughts? #Repost @coilyandcute ・・・I believe we should celebrate #blackhistory everyday but I’m always happy to make art that celebrates #blackhistorymonth 🤎 ... See MoreSee Less

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