When I talk with SLPs new to the schools and especially to recent grads working in the schools, I often hear comments about the volume of paperwork. Paperwork can be tedious and time-consuming, but it is also a stark contrast to what we did in grad school. I think the bigger shock of working as… (read more)
Are we there yet? It’s officially summer vacation for many of our families, and others are just days away. Did you sigh hugely with relief to have made it through the busy days of field trips, end-of-school parties, promotions/graduations, etc.? What does summer vacation look like in your family? Vacations, summer camps, sleeping in, picking… (read more)
I have gotten into a bit of a rut with my evaluations, and language sampling is an area where I have broad freedom to create my own best practices. That’s why in 2018, I’m setting myself up for change with a clear goal to perform better language analysis! I’m a little embarrassed that I… (read more)
Resolution season is nearly upon us. In the world of speech/language therapy and special education, school-based SLPs might have an advantage when setting measurable, achievable goals. After all, we write an awful lot of goals over the course of a year, across a variety of skills and abilities. So why is it that we come… (read more)
Stuttering is one of the more vexing communication challenges that speech-language pathologists address. This is in part due to the fact that there is a certain cohort of children who appear to spontaneously “recover” from stuttering while others continue to stutter throughout their adult lives. (Note: I put the word recover in quotes because there are… (read more)
Here it is. October. Whether you started this fall in a brand-new-to-you placement or settled into a new year in a familiar place, by mid-October, you’ve got a pretty good idea of your workload, your team members, your resources. But sometimes things haven’t come together so seamlessly. Sometimes, the drowning feeling makes you pretty sure… (read more)