Category: Speech Therapy

The COVID-19 pandemic brought about profound challenges, and —  it also forced us to innovate and adapt in remarkable ways. One of the most significant advancements to emerge was the… Continue reading A Lasting Shift: Embracing Telepractice Access as a Permanent Legacy

  Nice Speech Lady A/AC App Beta Testing Sign Up Link   I hope this is helpful to you, and thanks for visiting!   — Nice Speech Lady   **Trademark… Continue reading Sign up for Beta Testing/Nice Speech Lady A/AC App

Nice Speech Lady Technology Check Topics List:

Hybrid or telepractice-only practices often have utilize a screening process to determine eligibility for a service delivery format for virtual visits.

Included is a guide: A clinician-standpoint topics list for a “technology check” for a virtual visit.

Printable/PDF: Nice Speech Lady Intake- PEDIATRIC DEEPER COMMUNICATION QUESTIONNAIRE, VERY YOUNG   Name: ____________________________________DOB: _________ Age:______ PEDIATRIC DEEPER COMMUNICATION QUESTIONNAIRE (VERY YOUNG) Your name: ______________________________________________________________ Your relationship to your child:____________________(Legal… Continue reading Resource: Deep Intake Form, Young/Peds Communication Evals

Nice Speech Lady has published a new resource: a guide and visual aide for understanding “if/then” concepts for facilitating “cause/effect” in communication. A printable/share-able PDF is available on the post.

Nice Speech Lady has created a reference document for private practice or related companies. This word-document could be used in the process of investigating a business’ pursuit of an individualized… Continue reading Data on Insurance Verification Reference Topics/Upon Calling Payors

Print-friendly/Shareable PDF: Nice Speech Lady Cursory Write-in Cheat-Sheet for Session Details This resource was born out of my trials and tribulations of needing, at my practice, a method for collecting… Continue reading New Resource Available: Cursory Write-in Cheat-Sheet/Session Details

July, 20, 2023 Nominate your favorite SLP by acknowledging their skills, effort, attention, effectiveness and compassion. How? Enter their name and information in Nice Speech Lady’s 2023 “‘Seize The Day’… Continue reading Nominate Others for the ‘”Seize The Day” SLP’ Award for 2023, Through Nice Speech Lady

Print-friendly/Shareable PDF: SESSION MATERIALS- Social Skills Alternatives to Saying ‘I Don’t Know’ Improving the ability to expand answers when typically a person would say “I don’t know” will aid patients… Continue reading New Complementary Resource: Social Skills Alternatives to ‘I Don’t Know’

Utilizing visual cues, as well as incorporating creative imagery can assist in improving learning, as well as improve understanding of the concept of how categories “nest” within other more expansive… Continue reading Progressive Categorization Manipulatives “Nesting” Guide

Nice Speech Lady has created visual guides in explaining the scope of practice to patients and caregivers.   Printable/Shareable-PDF: Nice Speech Lady – SLP Scope of Practice Reference Guide  … Continue reading Nice Speech Lady Free Shareable Guide on SLP Scope of Practice Available

Enclosed is a guide for speech-language pathologists at intake/evaluation visits, for a mechanism for describing the process at intake visits. This process will serve as a roadmap for patients, and… Continue reading Evaluation ‘Road-Map,’ for the Start of Intake Visits

Walt Fritz, CEU ASHA-approved provider — spoke with Nice Speech Lady recently in an interview, and discussed populations that are typically utilized for manual therapy and touched-based interventions, and the… Continue reading Discussing Person-Centered Model Approaches of Manual Therapy for SLPs — Youtube Interview

Printable PDF: Nice Speech Lady SESSION MATERIALS: Clipboard Aides, Improving Understanding of Messages (No-Tech A/AC) Many patients who demonstrate a combined receptive-expressive deficit could use methods to aid in quicker,… Continue reading Clipboard Aides Improve Understanding of Messages (No-Tech A/AC)

Walt Fritz, PT, with “Foundations in Manual Therapy: Voice & Swallowing Disorders,” was recently (print) interviewed by Nice Speech Lady LLC, owner Wilson Nice, SLP (on 1-19-23). Below is the… Continue reading Updates in Manual Therapy for 2023/Answers About Trends, A Print Interview with Walt Fritz

I have been pondering writing on this topic for some time. It is important, and we need as a field to be talking about it. Telepractice access to care for… Continue reading Telepractice Access Matters (It’s Not Just About the Pandemic) — BLOG POST

Printable PDF:NICE SPEECH LADY REASSESSMENT-AIDE TOOL: “Huddle”   Date of first visit/evaluation: _______ Focus of visits, thus far:   ______________________________________   Patient/caregiver – “How has it been for you?”   What… Continue reading Perform a “Huddle” with Reassessments, a New Free Nice Speech Lady Tool

Printable/PDF: Nice Speech Lady Session Tool: Laying-Out Task Options The following SLP activities are offered today as choices (based upon preferences, testing/other information from the previous visit/s, as well as… Continue reading Nice Speech Lady Session Tool: Laying-Out Task Options

printable/PDF: NICE SPEECH LADY TOOL: Prep-Communication Mechanisms Packet (Provider Visits) or: word document for copying/pasting/modifying — Nice Speech Lady Tools — Prep-Communication Mechanisms (Provider Visits).docx   When seeing a provider,… Continue reading New Patient Tool For Communicating with Providers/Stating Preferences

Sometimes, medical SLPs who focus on providing speech services to adults may find themselves in situations where a pediatric or adolescent patient referral is received. Other adult patients may benefit… Continue reading Nice Speech Lady ASSESSMENT AIDE: Pediatric/Adolescent Intake Tools & Beyond

I have been chewing on this topic for some time. It would be really helpful for us to let this sink in as we provide SLP services to patients with… Continue reading Symptom Severity Presentation May Not Always Equal QOL Impact — BLOG POST

Nice Speech Lady’s most recent resource is a “check-off” list for an outpatient SLP intake process, for a person in private practice or other settings. Included are the micro-steps, each… Continue reading A Step-By-Step OP SLP Intake Guide — Takeaways For All Settings

Do you have patients who present with motor speech impairments and are unintelligible?  Would they love to interact with other people and voice-enabled devices using their own voice?  Please use… Continue reading Voiceitt Gives Unintelligible Patients a Voice, Enabling Communication with People and Voice Control of Smart Devices

by Nice Speech Lady   PRINT-ABLE/PDF VERSION: HANDOUT-ABLE: Strategies to Recall New Names It is common in patients with memory difficulties to have this difficulty permeate many areas of their… Continue reading The Common Struggle in Recalling New Names

When requested, speech pathologists may be required to make arrangements for the shadowing of students, new SLP employees, volunteers, other allied-health professionals or persons in other roles. PRINT-ABLE/PDF VERSION: HANDOUT-ABLE:… Continue reading HANDOUT-ABLE: Shadowing Guidelines for Clinicians & Observers

On occasion, as speech-language providers, the consideration of a referral to and communication with Adult Protection Services (APS) occurs. The resource lists important information for SLPs to consider regarding APS.… Continue reading Content to Assist with an APS Referral Process– HAND-OUT

In our college studies and in our CEU development, we acquire technical knowledge. In life, through family interactions, personal pursuits, individual study, peer connections and in progressive work experiences, we… Continue reading Practical Implications of Soft Skills for the SLP — BLOG POST

Nice Speech Lady’s newest original resource includes more than fifteen considerations to keep in mind as patients journey through different health care systems.   HANDOUT-ABLE: General Patient Guidelines For Advocating/Navigating… Continue reading Attention All Patients! Guidelines For Navigating Care

SLP-specific resources can be helpful to utilize, especially fresh to the clinician to creating new tasks and activities in treatment visits for pursuing adult medical population treatments. This post’s purpose… Continue reading Quick Link to Primary Nice Speech Lady Treatment Resource Libraries

Wilson Nice, Nice Speech Lady Creator, cares about SLPs who are in crisis, or at-risk of being in crisis. Nice benefitted from the experience in talking about this topic with… Continue reading Nice Speech Lady Creator In FreshSLP ‘Missing Link’ Podcast — ‘If You Are In Crisis’

Nice Speech Lady has generated a number of resources through the years that could be utilized as part of a push for increasing awareness of SLPs role. Below are resources… Continue reading Cluster Of Nice Speech Lady Resources to Increase Potential for Referrals

Nice Speech Lady has just published a new resource that can be added to every SLP’s evaluation process — a first-contact assessment aide for SLPs to utilize “before leaving the… Continue reading “Before Ending the Evaluation” Procedural Aide — Now Available at Nice Speech Lady

Nice Speech Lady has made available the handouts that have been created — thus far — for clinicians to utilize with patients, family members and caregivers. Please see below for… Continue reading Easy-Access Portal To All Nice Speech Lady Handouts for Patients/Caregivers

In an effort for spreading word of telepractitioners who are in private practice and connecting them with potential patients, Nice Speech Lady has listed tele-SLPs who contacted the website at… Continue reading Telepractice Private Practice List Compilation — Collected By Nice Speech Lady

Nice Speech Lady is an electronic hub of information for medical speech pathologists that you cannot find anywhere else — from handout-ables, to assessment/testing aides to session materials, as well… Continue reading Quick Link To All Nice Speech Lady Home Programs (By Treatment Area)

Manual therapy (MT) has been my chosen intervention for decades. This preference began with perceptions of MT having the ability to select a specific tissue for intervention, specifically connective tissue… Continue reading Manual Therapy’s Utility in the Treatment of Head/Neck Cancer-Related Trismus — GUEST BLOG POST

As communication clinicians — I would purport that many would consider that the headline of this blog “goes without saying.”  Yet, here we are — words do impact us in… Continue reading Words We Use Have Impact — BLOG POST

Patients sometimes struggle with initiating wants and needs in facility settings for diverse reasons. It is this group of people who may benefit from this resource — from a patient… Continue reading New Solution Resource Made Available — When Patients Avoid Asking For Assistance In Facilities

Nice Speech Lady’s newest resource makes a case for patients to attend, and fully participate in, scheduled activities in facilities. See the resource for a listing of all of the… Continue reading Communicating The Benefits of Participating in Scheduled Facility Activities

Nice Speech Lady has created a handout to provide to dietary managers, assisted living facilities or to home of families and individuals who desire to improve the visual quality of… Continue reading Garnishing Ideas for Modified Food Consistency Types

There are many choices for cognitive-communication content to add to our toolbox in the world of speech pathology. Nice Speech Lady has created a collection of the most helpful sites… Continue reading An Amassment of Helpful Cognitive-Communication Resources

Nice Speech Lady recently interviewed Cheryl Pelletier, M.S.,CCC-SLP, who is the owner of Gnosh, Inc. The Youtube Interview, produced by The Nice Speech Lady Show” featured the “Side Biter.” This… Continue reading Chewing Tool Details Shared in Side Biter Interview

Being a physical therapist who teaches manual therapy to speech pathologists, there is often a bit of a gulf between our distinct worlds. The specific training for PTs differs from… Continue reading Questions Surrounding Manual Therapy in the Treatment of Voice & Swallowing Disorders — GUEST BLOG POST

The research is clear regarding spaced retrieval: there is evidence of improvement with this technique, particularly when paired with a physical task during these progressively-timed/structured memory activities. Please see this… Continue reading Spaced Retrieval Content List for Ideas: Pair With Physical Tasks

Nice Speech Lady recent updated the “(Other) Helpful Resources” Dysphagia Treatment section. Please see below for details. Dysphagia Treatment Information   Wilson Nice, M.A., CCC-SLP, is the owner of Nice… Continue reading Dysphagia Treatment Resources Compilation

Nice Speech Lady recently created a list of helpful resource links on the subject of telepractice; see below:   Resource Links on Telepractice   Wilson Nice, M.A., CCC-SLP, is the… Continue reading Nice Speech Lady Compilation of Helpful Resource Links on Telepractice

Since 2013, when I presented my first hands-on seminar exclusively designed for the SLP’s needs and interests, this course has grown and matured. With each seminar’s presentation, the content has… Continue reading Foundations in Manual Therapy: Voice and Swallowing Disorders Hands-On Online Course — GUEST BLOG POST

SLPs have a number of options to consider when pursuing CEU courses. Nice Speech Lady has made available an list of speech pathology CEU providers who make courses available on… Continue reading Provider List of SLP CEUs

There are a plethora of speech pathology resource websites available online, and it seems these days that everyone has a blog or website. That is good news for the SLP… Continue reading List of Over 30 Useful SLP Resource Websites

Walt Fritz, PT, with “Foundations in Manual Therapy: Voice and Swallowing Disorders” was recently interviewed by nicespeechlady.com owner Bekah Wilson Nice, SLP. Below is the transcript of the interaction, highlighting Fritz’s seminars.… Continue reading Manual Therapy: A Conversation with Walt Fritz

PDF/printer-friendly version: SESSION MATERIALS- List of Functional Sequencing Activities (English/Spanish) SESSION MATERIALS: List of Functional Sequencing Activities Utilizing session materials for sequencing of functional activities for cognitive-linguistic patients is an… Continue reading Functional Sequencing Tasks for Cognition (English/Spanish)

Available now is a resource that details pharyngeal exercise options that clinicians can assign as a home exercise program. Clinicians can choose from a number of exercises, based on patient… Continue reading Pharyngeal Exercise HEP Released with Accompanying Spanish Interpretation

Nicespeechlady.com is releasing one large cognitive HEP resource with many components — home exercise programs for patients with who require simple tasks, moderate-in-complexity tasks, and high-level tasks. Also accompanying each… Continue reading Available: Simple, Moderate and High-Level Cognitive HEPs with Orientation

I frequently am asked if the work taught in my Foundations in Manual Therapy: Voice and Swallowing Disorders Seminar would be of value to the clinician working in a particular… Continue reading Manual Therapy and the SLP — GUEST BLOG POST

Setting down the clipboard. Chalking up the hands. Working at skillfully using my fingers as tools. Using questioning and listening in the clinician-patient relationship to flow therapy in a new… Continue reading ‘Foundations in Manual Therapy: Voice & Swallowing Disorders’ Seminar: ‘The Experience’ — BLOG POST

Nicespeechlady.com has created one document that lists various letters included for SLPs to choose among for using in printing mode for sending with patients to instrumental appointments, or other provider/MDs… Continue reading Resource: ‘List of Letter Forms for SLP Referrals’ Now Available

As a physical therapist, I occupy an odd place as a provider of education within the SLP profession. Others have trodden these steps before and will no doubt do so… Continue reading A Day in the Life of an SLP, at Least Once Using Manual Therapy as an Intervention Strategy — GUEST BLOG POST

Lisa A. Young (formerly Lisa Murray), SLP, with Eat, Speak, & Think was recently interviewed by nicespeechlady.com owner Bekah Wilson Nice, SLP. Below is the transcript of the interaction, highlighting Young’s… Continue reading Eat, Speak & Think: An Interview

Concerning our education and approach to the various populations to which we apply this education, it should go without saying that anatomy matters. Knowledge of the structure and its related… Continue reading Anatomy Matters … But Which Anatomy? — GUEST BLOG POST

With my first post here on the nicespeechlady.com website, I want to take a moment to introduce myself and the work that I teach. My name is Walt Fritz, and… Continue reading Manual Therapy Benefits SLP Patients, an Intro — GUEST BLOG POST

It was a day. It was a week. A month. A year. It was starting to be a decade of suffering.  The mounds upon mounds of paperwork were piling up;… Continue reading Speech Pathology: I Almost Left the Field — BLOG POST