A blog for all things speech and language (with a Cajun twist)
Happy Better Speech and Hearing Month to my SLPeeps! In the spirit of BSHM, I just had to share a rare find (that only SLPs will enjoy) I stumbled upon while cleaning out my office. You see, I moved into my current office that came with my current job (as district coordinator of speech, language, hearing services and deaf education)…
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Ahhhhhh!! It’s been ages since I’ve blogged. My full-time SLP day job has really gotten the best of me over the past few months and has kept me from the things I love. If you are a school SLP, you may know what that feels like 🙁 Today I’m blogging about something I’ve been passionate about, especially lately, with my…
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I hope you are all coming down off of a beautiful holiday season! As you can imagine, it’s been a hectic time of year, and the festivities and Christmas prep have kept me away from blogging. In fact, during the past couple of months it has felt like I’m holding my entire life together with a bobbie pin. Anyone…
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Are you ready for the SECOND most important thing I think you need to know when working with students who have ASD? If not, scroll down to read #1 first! If so, here it is: Now that your student has joint attention, interactions with others are possible! It’s time to start working on social reciprocity. You probably know that children…
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You may notice that my blogging was on hold all summer. That’s because my brain was about explode from learning so much! This past June I had the pleasure of hearing Dr. Patrick Rydell, an SLP who owns The Rocky Mountain Center for Autism, speak for a whole day. WOW! He said everything that’s been floating around my head (with…
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It’s been such a long time since I’ve written. There are lots of reasons for that. As our area was just about recovered from the “Great Flood” of 2016, my parents’ home flooded in my hometown 100 miles from Baton Rouge. At the ages of 90 and 81, you can imagine how hard it was to see your parents displaced….
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