Even the thought of doing this now makes me cringe. It brings back the grad school days when we were watched all the time and evaluation days when you pray that the students behave and everything goes according to plan!…
Welcome to the first Clinical Skills Confidence post of 2015! If you’re unfamiliar with these posts, it is a non-scheduled series where I talk about something related to the clinical side of being an SLP. To see other posts, click…
Who can relate to the scene below? You get to work an hour before you have to because you like to prep for the day ahead. You turn on your computer, check your work email (again), respond to the two…
I’m not one of the people that really enjoys public speaking. In fact, in high school, I pretty much did anything to avoid it. Then in college, we needed to do presentations. I got more used to it and sometimes…
Graphics: KG Fonts and 3AM Teacher Clinical Skills Confidence posts are back! I asked my Facebook fans what kinds of posts they’d like to see. One of the first suggestions that caught my eye was staying on top of…
Graphics: My Cute Graphics I don’t know about you, but my sessions frequently begin like this: Me: “Hi XXX, how are you?” Student: “Fine.” Me: “What did you do over the weekend/last night?” Student: “Played video games.” …
At this time, I’m currently treading water in a sea of evaluations. Sometimes, I’m floating on my back just to get a little break. This is when keeping tabs on E.I.P. becomes crucial for me and if I don’t have…
Graphics: My Cute Graphics Font: SLPs in the schools need to have an understanding of how students are functioning in the classroom environment. In order for a student to qualify for speech/language services in the schools, there needs…
SLPs use social stories all the time! The term “Social Stories” is trademarked by Carol Gray and more information can be found on her website. In a nutshell, they are stories that are designed to help a student understand…