Forward! The Wisconsin state motto felt appropriate as Sharon Soliday and I ventured to Milwaukee, WI for the Autism Society annual national conference last week. We were there as vendors, speaking to people about online speech therapy, our new platform, and our company. Never having been to Milwaukee or the Autism Society’s national conference, we… (read more)
Sharon Soliday and Jenny Peddicord were recently invited to talk telepractice with Bill Conners of the Telepractice Certification Community. Both of these video interviews were featured in the March edition of their newsletter. We’re pleased to share them here as well. Sharon, founder and CEO of The Hello Foundation, shared how the company got started using telepractice… (read more)
A new study just out from Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups compared nine school-age students with speech sound disorders receiving traditional once weekly intervention to nine similar students receiving individual six-minute telepractice sessions five times weekly. Although the monthlyminutes were equivalent (30 minutes per week for 4 weeks vs. 6 minutes per day for 4… (read more)
I am definitely guilty of typically looking forward. I like to face forward on the train. I think there’s great advantage to being first in line. I even arrive at the airport 2 hours before my flight. However, there can be great value in looking back periodically. It sometimes can give us a hint of… (read more)
Recently I had a conversation with a gentleman who spoke of his experience running a private medical practice as the director. He spoke of often having to crack the whip and assure others that he knew when they were and were not doing their jobs. I smiled politely and wondered to myself, Why would he… (read more)
The online therapy side of our clinic has been growing by leaps and bounds in recent months. We have been excited to offer it as an option to our clients, and our clients have enthusiastically embraced it for a wide variety of reasons. The work on our app continues and we’re now in the second round of… (read more)