De Facto Leaders

Kids & Family Podcasts

On the De Facto Leaders podcast, host Dr. Karen Dudek-Brannan helps pediatric therapists and educators become better leaders, so they can make a bigger impact with their services. With over 15 years of experience supporting school-age kids with...

Episodes

Three Practices That Turn Language Therapy Into a Scalable System

BONUS: Using Recess to Build Social Skills and Help Students Discover their Leadership Potential (with Elizabeth Cushing)g

How to Go From “Talking About Students” to Changing School Systems (with Kurtis Hewson)

Student Wellness Is a Design Decision, Not a Siloed Activity (with Lauren Porosoff)

Five “clinical containers” to design your language therapy system

Three Pieces of Unconventional Advice I Give SLPs

Education is a business. Let’s stop pretending it isn’t.

A Case for Well-Designed Virtual Field Trips (with Seth Fleischauer)

Using a “Virtual Speech Helper” (with Maura Connor)

Defining “EdTech” and the End User (with Maura Connor)

Your clinical expertise is powerful. But is it scalable?

So…can you recommend an app to build my child’s language skills?

Narrative Intervention: Beyond "Cute" Stories and Lesson Plans (with Jane Gebers)

What's the point of teaching storytelling? (with Jane Gebers)

Not seeing generalization? You might be the bottleneck.

Part 3: What’s the Point of a Language Evaluation? Breaking Down Diagnostic Accuracy, Standards, and Scores (with Destiny Johnson and Tiffany Shahoumian-Ruiz)

Part 2: What’s the Point of a Language Evaluation? Breaking Down Diagnostic Accuracy, Standards, and Scores (with Destiny Johnson and Tiffany Shahoumian-Ruiz)

Part 1: What’s the Point of a Language Evaluation? Breaking Down Diagnostic Accuracy, Standards, and Scores (with Destiny Johnson and Tiffany Shahoumian-Ruiz)

Educational Eligibility, Clinical Diagnosis, and the “Just Be Like Finland” Argument (with Dr. Chrishawn Finister)

What words should I target in language therapy?