In this episode of SLP Coffee Talk, Hallie sits down with researchers Klaire Brumbaugh and Katy Cabbage, who are part of a team building a nationwide study around something secondary SLPs know all too well: the older student still working on that R who has zero interest in being in the speech room. They're developing tools to actually measure student motivation—so SLPs have real data behind decisions like when to keep kids on, when to discharge, and how to catch that window when a student is finally ready to do the work.
Bullet Points to Discuss:
What one SLP noticed in her high school speech room that kicked off this whole research project
Why motivation is already being used as a dismissal criteria—but no one's actually measuring it
What the research is finding so far—and where the big gaps still are
What a nationwide study looks like and how SLPs can get involved
Here’s what we learned:
When a student is intrinsically motivated, progress can happen in weeks—not years.
Low motivation is already being used to dismiss kids from therapy, but there's no real way to measure or track it.
Parents, teachers, and students often see the same speech sound disorder in completely different ways—and that gap can affect every decision you make.
The best research ideas are already happening in school speech rooms. This whole study started because one SLP spoke up at a conference.
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