Social Media Fridays (August 12, 2011)

Every Friday Futureslps will be posting Social Media Related Information. Get Involved Connect, Network and Join the Community!Favorite Friday Facebook Pages

• @Smarty Ears : Great "Apps for Speech Therapists, Teachers, Teachers, and Children with Special Needs." Follow Smarty Ears on Twitter and visit their website http://smartyearsapps.com/.  Stay updated on the latest Applications and Smarty Ears News.
• @Literacy Speaks. :Provides a great resource for literacy, "Literacy Speaks! focuses on improved speech intelligibility and enhanced literacy skills for preschool through early elementary school children, children with special needs, children with communication disorders, English language learners and economically disadvantaged students."  Follow Literacy Speaks on Twitter and visit their website http://www.literacyspeaks.com/.  There are some really good activity resources.
• @PediaStaff : "A nationwide, staffing company focusing on the placement of pediatric therapists." PediaStaff provides wonderful information on their Blog and under their Resources section on their website for Speech Language Pathologists, Physical Therapists, and Occupational Therapists.  Subscribe to their newsletter to get the latest resources in your Inbox and join PediaStaff's Pinterest to get access to  "30 different pin boards with 200 ideas and activities for pediatric SLPs, OTs and PTs to use."  Follow PediaStaff on Twitter and visit their website http://www.pediastaff.com/.

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• @SLPTanya  "School-based speech-language pathologist. Semi tech-geek; full fledged research & reading geek. PT faculty member. Dabbles in Apps." :  View her       awesome blog and check out the SLP Wall of Awesome that she began.
• @namastebyday "Depending on the day, I am a speech therapist, wife, mommy, spin student, tree-hugger, yogi,...or all of the above" :  View her blog at http://www.namastebyday.com/
• @TanyaSSLP "SLP with birth to 5 and loving it! Getting Ed.S in Assistive Tech. Love AAC, looking forward 2 doing more of it!" 
• @speechreka "Speech & Language Therapist, Owner of Easy Speak Enterprises, full of ambition, ready to take on the world!"  View her blog full of functional, fun, and easy speech and language activities http://easyspeakideas.blogspot.com/
• @albrechtjn "Speech-Language Pathologist with preschool & school-age kids, buyer of shoes & purses, and proud #SLPeep"
• @azspeechguy "Pediatric SLP :) I work in an outpatient clinic in Phoenix, Az concentrating mostly on autism, aac, artic/phonlogy, and dabble in some feeding".  View his blog at http://azspeechguy.wordpress.com/

HashTags, Pages and Groups

• #B2SAppSpecials:  Great Promotions for back to School Apps Promotion
• #Slpchat:  Follow SLPChat on Twitter and Subscribe to SLP Chat's Blog to stay updated on upcoming topics.  "SLPChat is a Twitter based study group.   It is primarily meant for Speech-Language Pathologists/Therapists to collaborate in a more formalized atmosphere for professional development and discussion.  However, you do not have to be a SLP/SLT to participate."  Special Thanks to  Shareka Bentham (@SpeechReka) andTanya Coyle (@SLPTanya) for jointly running SLPChat.
  
• Pinterest PediaStaff's Page:  "30 different pin boards with 200 ideas and activities for pediatric SLPs, OTs and PTs to use."
  
• #SLPeeps: A Network of Speech Language Pathologists:  Ask Questions, Share Resources and Get to Know Other SLPs.  To search for information related to this group type #SLPeeps
• #Preslp and #SLP2B:  Information related to students becoming Speech Language Pathologists

Friday Thought:  "Set goals, stay focused and dream big because the best is yet to come! ~Futureslps.com~                                                                          

                                                           Happy Friday!