Editor’s Note:  Thank you to Shelley Hutchins at ASHA for asking me to update my favorite blog list for ASHAsphere.  It was a very hard project to do, as you will understand when you read it!
by Heidi Kay, PediaStaff

In the past few years, the internet has exploded with speech-language resources, largely due to the ease of publishing one’s thoughts through a blog. When I wrote apiece on SLPs blogging back in 2012, most clinicians had no idea that this wealth of knowledge was out there. Today however, blogs are everywhere and they are widely known as a great place to get specialty information on virtually every topic.

Anyone who has ever blogged will tell you that regular blogging is a time-consuming commitment that demands ongoing diligence. A successful blogger needs to write insightful, informative posts at least two to three times per week. Blogging usually starts for most as a fun way to get your ideas out there. A year later, when the “newness” has worn off, contributing to your blog evolves from a “want-to” to a “have-to,” and then unfortunately often to a “Do I really need to?” task.

A good many of the blogs we featured in our first article no longer exist. Fantastic clinicians have just decided that the time it took to consistently share the excellence they practice was just too much of a drain on professional and personal time. Thankfully, a new crop of bloggers have recently come in to fill some of the gap left behind.
Others, have gone the route of making their blogs a way to supplement their income. If I am going to invest this much energy in blogging, why not sell some of my great ideas? After all, school speech surely doesn’t pay very well. The advent of Teacher Pay Teacher, has enabled many extremely creative school therapy clinicians to share their ideas and earn themselves a nice secondary income to boot.

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