A place for all things speech and language...with a Cajun twist
Do you feel guilty dismissing students because it seems like everyone is against it? Do you avoid it because you’re too tired to fight it? Do you get kickback from staff or from parents? I know that’s how I felt for many years. During my 24 years in schools, it felt like the whole world wanted me to keep kids…
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Do you ever struggle to decide the frequency (days per week or month) and the length of therapy sessions to recommend for a child with a speech sound disorder? If you’re school based, do you wonder how to determine which service delivery model would be best? I sometimes did, too, but I thought that maybe I was alone in that….
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A very big part of our job is assessment. You may have caught my previous blog post about my new semi-obsession with disinfecting therapy materials. Well, when I was packing up my testing materials to do two evaluations recently, I realized that I couldn’t risk germ transmission through the testing materials that two children would be touching that day. All…
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We’re in month four of this pandemic. If you’re reading this, I hope you are well, and thank you for visiting. I’ve obviously had plenty of time to get on here and write, but I’ve been in such a funk. Like many of you, I jumped into telepractice, and while I’m still providing some services through teletherapy, I’ve recently returned…
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How are you doing? No, seriously, don’t just say, “I’m fine” or “I’m okay.” How are you really doing? Maybe you’re like me and can’t quite put your finger on it. It’s all so weird. I feel like a newborn; my days and night are mixed up (hence the reason for all my middle of the night emails I’m sending…
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While I’m at home practicing “social distancing” and binge watching Disney+, the least I could do was… something – anything– to help you cope with school closings due to this awful Covid-19 virus (or nasty alias Coronvirus). Here in Louisiana, every public school has closed their doors to students, but many educators (including SLPs) are still having to report for…
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