PDPM SLP Component: Inside the Numbers
A strong SLP Component is a key part of a SNF’s PDPM strategy
Teaching Your Child to Use Action Verbs
Often times, a child's early vocabulary is filled with a lot of nouns. While nouns are great, it is also extremely beneficial to start teaching your child more verbs (action verbs) to broaden their expressive/receptive vocabulary. It is very important to focus on...
5 Challenges Skilled Nursing Facilities Face in 2021
Nursing Home Residents dining together pre-pandemic
Self-Talk and Parallel-Talk
Self-Talk and Parallel-Talk are two strategies that are great to help develop speech and language skills in any setting! Let's talk about the difference and examples of what to say! When implementing self-talk, narrate what you are doing, eating, touching,...
Speech Therapists are Vaccination Superstars!!
Healthcare workers around the country are receiving Covid-19 vaccinations
Important Updates from New York State
Updates from New York State for SNF Providers
5 Tips for Starting off 2021
I don’t think anyone was sorry to see 2020 end. There’s a about a million funny memes out there that can attest! Healthcare workers have had an especially tough year, fighting for lives on the front line. We are proud of you. Below are 5 tips to help...
What is Expressive Language?
Expressive language is the ability to convey your message to another person through speech, signs, sounds, or writing. Even before babies begin to approximate their first words, they use expressive communication through crying, babbling, and body language. It is...
New Service Alert: Ongoing Service Coordination
A young child in need of Early Intervention Services can be eligible for a variety of services to help them with developmental delays and disabilities. Having access to Ongoing Service Coordination can be extremely helpful to families in need. If you, your...
Covid-19 Vaccine Distribution to Hospitals and Skilled Nursing Facilities Begins
Beginning in the month of December 2020, Covid-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer will be rolled out to healthcare workers and patients around the country. Vaccinations in several hospitals began on Monday December 14th. Long term care facilities will be...