BSR Blog
Not Everyone Celebrates Halloween—and That’s Okay
Spooky season can be a fun and creative time of year, but it can also be tricky to navigate in diverse classrooms and therapy spaces. Not every culture or family celebrates Halloween—and that’s something worth honoring. In this post, I share how I approach October with curiosity and care, from asking families about their traditions to creating “spooky” crafts that focus on language, creativity, and connection rather than costumes or candy.
 
      
      How We Begin Shapes the Year Ahead
New Year, New Look
 
      
      Shanthi Hegde: High School CEO
This high-school student created a collective of mask-makers to provide PPE for those who need it most.
 
      
      Graduate Student Interviews
This blog post shares some core questions to ask graduate students during pre-placement interviews. Pre-placement interviews are a great way to set the tone for the semester.
 
      
      Better Speech and Hearing Month (2019)
Every May the American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA) uses Better Speech and Hearing Month as an opportunity to raise awareness about communication disorders and the role that ASHA members play in providing life-changing treatments.This year the theme is "Communication Across the Lifespan.
 
      
      This is the ONE Thing Your Students Need to Succeed
At 27 years old, Angela Duckworth abandoned her cushy, six-figure job in management consulting at one of the top agencies in the country to become a math teacher. Talk about a lifestyle change.
 
      
      New Year, New Graduate Student
 
      
      Honoring NativeNovember - Our Thanksgiving JARS
 
      
      Feeling Unprepared to Treat CAS Clients? You're Not Alone.
How to Make a Pig JAR
 
      
      We Don't Eat Our Classmates: A Dinosaur JAR
 
      
      Back to School Show and Tell
 
      
      5 SLP Tips for the Back-to-School Season
There can be a downside to the excitement of the start of a new school year. Do you ever find yourself so caught up in the anticipation of new beginnings that you keep on adding to a never-ending to-do-list instead of checking things off? Yeah ... me too. And this can get to be a little overwhelming. Back-to-school season is one of the most hectic times of the year and it can be frustrating for some SLPs if they don't know where to start. That is why I wanted to share five tips and strategies for the back-to-school hustle.
 
      
      3 Reasons Why Summer Speech Homework Is Important
 
      
      A Bumble Bee Craft
 
      
      Making Cherry Blossom Trees
 
      
      Making Silly Tacos
 
      
      What is a JAR?
If you do a google search on the words “JAR” or “JARs” you’re likely to get a lot of catalog pictures of sealed containers and some miscellaneous tech articles about Java file formats, but JARs have an entirely different meaning in the special education and speech-language pathology world.
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