Actually, that’s not true-I was just trying to get your attention. I love looking at pictures of organized and well designed treatment rooms-I’m in awe of some of your speech spaces. This is the time of year when you see pictures of amazing and potentially disheartening speech spaces. It’s easy to think, “How am I […]
Soapbox Saturday: Leave my childhood games alone!
I’ve been thinking about this post for awhile. What is happening with the games from my childhood? Maybe it’s a case of “When I was Young” geezer talk, but it seems like manufacturers continue to make these games easier-and ruining the game’s initial appeal in the process. Candyland now comes with a colored spinner. No […]
Cluing into your Cues: How understanding what you are doing can help you better advocate for speech pathology services.
I am a master of the phonemic prompt. My son even uses it with me. “Mom, do you think we should got to the store and buy some L…(legos?) It’s so effective that it works on many of my colleagues. I may be in the gym and I’ll say something like, “It’s time to throw […]
Soapbox Saturday: Confusing Shipping Charges Drive Me Crazy-Repost with an Update
Last year I wrote about how shipping charges that are a percentage of an order drive me crazy. I don’t understand why a company would want to penalize you for purchasing more products. I understand that rising gas costs and increased shipping charges have made free shipping more difficult. Cuts in special education funding have […]
Soapbox Saturday: Collaboration-Part 2
I’ve been thinking about how to format this post for awhile. If I waited for the perfect way to share this information-I’ll probably wait for another two years…. Why do I think that children benefit from both school based services and outpatient services? Part of it is that my experience has shown that students who […]
Soapbox Saturday: Can’t we all just get along?
We aren’t the Jets and the Sharks rumbling in the middle of the night. But sometimes it feels like it. I started talking earlier this summer about why collaboration between school and outpatient therapists needs to happen more. It shouldn’t be that one is better than the other. My thoughts are that most students benefit from […]
Soapbox Saturday: Collaboration-is it an Urban Legend or Real Threat
Did you know that my friend’s friend’s cousin’s brother went to a local fast food chicken restaurant and when he went to bite into his chicken leg there was a tail sticking out of it? That is one of my favorite urban legends. It’s so gross to think that you would accidentally eat a cooked […]
Soapbox Saturday: What if we have the wrong answer to our problem?
Years ago when I started as a speech language pathologist, there was a big push for us to service children with reading disorders. Around that same time, it seemed that our scope of practice was getting so big as to be impossible to reach every child. For awhile, it seemed like we were expected to […]
Mama-on-Days: Kindergarten Readiness
I wish my actual job would stop being so busy so I could spend some more time hanging out here. Do you ever drive yourself crazy trying to do it all? I know that I do. I love being able to write and think of therapy ideas. I have so many ideas and things that I […]
Soapbox Saturday: Are you an expert OR are you just a colleague in another setting?
Full disclosure: I work in both schools and outpatient settings. In some ways I think this helps give me a unique perspective on both settings. I wrote about this before but I think it bears repeating: I’ve admitted in the past that I have made recommendations to parents-with the best of intentions-that have undoubtedly […]
