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Facilitating Language Development at Home
As your child's speech and language skills begin...
Medicare Bootcamp 2023: What’s on the Horizon?
Language Fundamentals leadership recently took...
Prelinguistic Skills: What Parents Need to Know
Prelinguistic skills are communication skills...
Performing FEES on Alzheimer’s Dementia Patients: 3 Tools
A FEES test is an instrumental exam used to...
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Skilled Nursing Facility Posts
Performing FEES on Alzheimer’s Dementia Patients: 3 Tools
A FEES test is an instrumental exam used to assess if, how well, and what a patient can safely...
SLP Component PDPM Rates: Moving in the Right Direction?
October is the time of year that the new SNF reimbursement rates become effective. After a...
3 Tips for Feeding Patients with Dementia
Skilled nursing facility staffing in the wake of the pandemic and the great resignation has been a...
How Will the New MDS Changes Impact Case-Mix Reimbursement?
How will the new MDS Changes impact case-mix reimbursement? Good question. It seems...
PDPM Posts
5 Characteristics of a Top Performing Speech Therapy Department – UPDATE
Updates to this article are below in RED and...
Calculating the ROI on the SNF Speech Therapy Department
Even before the Covid pandemic, skilled nursing...
Has PDPM Impacted Your Speech Therapy Department?
UPDATE July 2022: With Medicare reimbursement...
The 6-Point Speech Therapy Department Checkup
While many SNFs are struggling to rebuild census...
Early Intervention Posts
Does Bilingualism Cause Speech and Language Delays?
Many bilingual families that I have worked with...
Why the “Wait and See” Approach Doesn’t Work When it Comes to Language Development
Many parents I have worked with have visited...
Early Intervention Teletherapy in New York State
Early Intervention Teletherapy in New York State...
Our 3 Favorite Winter Outdoor Activities with Toddlers
There is something truly magical about how...
Clinical Resources for Speech-Language Pathologists
Alzheimer’s Disease, Neuroplasticity, and their Relationship
"If the Human Brain Were So Simple That We Could...
“I Learned the Importance of Collaboration:” The Inspiring Journey of 3 Clinical Fellow SLPs
Part 3 In our third and final chapter of this...
“You Never Really Know Until You Find Yourself Doing It:” The Inspiring Journey of 3 Clinical Fellow SLPs
Part Two In this second chapter of the journey...
“If I Don’t Know, I will Learn” The Inspiring Journey of 3 Clinical Fellow SLPs
Part OneFor healthcare workers who have now...