Language Therapy and Leadership for Pediatric Clinicians
Some clinicians feel apprehensive about addressing their students’ executive functioning skills because they’re not confident in their OWN executive functioning. At the same time, they’re balancing a large caseload and coming up with ways to target complex things like language and cognition in a system that works against them. Many people think about time that…
In the past few jobs I’ve held, I’ve managed to get to the point people would say, “I know I can come to you with a problem and you’ll get something done.” It makes me incredibly proud when people see me as the “Get shit done” person. When I was in the schools, it was…
I’ve gotten requests from my School of Clinical Leadership members for resources that can be share with families and other professionals; and since coaching and training others is such an important part of effective executive functioning intervention, I decided to compile a list of content I’ve created on this topic. All of these things on…
You’ve got a backlog of reports to do. Next week there’s a staff in-service day, and you’re hoping to use it to finally make a dent in the paperwork that’s been piling up. And then the email comes. Everyone in the building is required to attend the district professional development in the morning about the…
One of the most common questions I get from clinicians who work with school-age kids is about scope and sequence of therapy. “How do I make time to address all these skills my students need?” “How can I help students generalize skills from one setting to another?” “How can I help the other people on…