One of my go-to, re-watchable comfort movies is High Fidelity. It’s definitely in my “all time top 5” (other High Fidelity nerds will get the reference). For those who haven’t seen it, the main character in the movie is constantly making “all time top 5” lists about various things (usually music, but sometimes career paths and other things). He…
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School therapists: What to do when you have to attend irrelevant PD
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…
How SLPs can make time for leadership and advocacy
A lot of SLPs know that making time to build relationships and collaborate at their facilities is essential to advocating for our field and our clients. But making TIME to do it is a challenge. I experienced this first hand my first few years in the schools. The problem was, I had no system for…
How SLPs can make policy changes at their facility
When I first started practicing, I realized there were a lot of obstacles impacting the effectiveness of what I did. As I talked to other SLPs, I discovered I wasn’t the only one experiencing these same challenges. Things like: LIMITED TIME with clients, which makes it hard to make consistent progress. HIGH CASELOADS, with limited…
3 Principles for finding more fulfillment as an SLP
It’s possible to provide quality therapy as an SLP without burning out. When I started my first SLP job in the school systems back in the early 2000s, I felt like a “Jack of all trades, master of none”. There were so many different cases falling on my plate, and I didn’t feel like an…
“Self-care” doesn’t work for SLPs. Here’s what does.
A while back, an article was floating around that recommended that SLPs “take a break to cry in their cars” to cope with job-related stress. This wasn’t the first time someone gave SLPs a generic “self-care” band-aid as a solution to burnout, and it won’t be the last. But it your BS radar goes off like…
Salaried vs hourly SLP positions (plus another option).
In the video below, the topic of the day is salary positions versus hourly positions for clinical and educational professionals. I know a lot of the readers are SLPs. We might have some other types of therapists and teachers, some school administrators, of other related professionals. To learn more, watch the video below: Video Transcript:…
Is travel therapy right for you (for speech-language pathologists)?
In the video below, I am joined by Julia Kuhn from The Traveling Traveler, and we’re going to talk a little bit about traveling therapy positions. To learn more, watch the video below: To learn more about how to get started with travel therapy, check out Julia’s course called “Guide to Travel Therapy” here. Video…
Three Mindset Shifts for SLPs who want to start a Private Practice
When I’ve mentored SLPs in the past, I’ve found there are a lot of myths floating around in the field about what it takes to run a successful business as an SLP, as well as your income potential. Starting a business can be uncomfortable, and people have a lot of objections to stepping out on…
Push-in, pull-out, co-teaching: What’s most functional for language therapy?
I get a lot of questions about how to write functional language goals, as well as how to improve language and vocabulary with “functional” activities. Usually the underlying question behind all of these surface-level questions is this: “How do I make sure my therapy will yield results in real-life situations outside my sessions.” OR “How…