tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91816360766757336122024-03-13T18:20:12.795-07:00SLP JennThe post grad school adventures of a special needs mom turned SLP. Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05121123682901167205noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9181636076675733612.post-46662716654830131142013-11-04T18:19:00.001-08:002013-11-05T06:00:32.598-08:00What we're doing in Speech this week - Veterans' Day EditionI've sort of let my blog go dormant since I have spent the better part of the last 3 months adjusting to full time work and managing the trio of the monsters I have underfoot, or rather on my lap any time I dare sit down for more than 12 seconds. <br />
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So I am going to try to post what materials I am using each week and share my sources. There are so many fun, free (or cheap) resources out there online these days, I feel fortunate to be starting my career in the internet era. Besides, I'd get laughed out of the Sixth Grade Academy if I tried to use some of those outdated old materials that I found in my office. <br />
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This week, I have decided to work on Veterans' Day materials, inspired by one of my SLP Heroes at <a href="http://speechroomnews.blogspot.com/2013/11/veterans-day-downloads-books-freebies.html">Speech Room News</a>. We are in school on 11/11, but will be at an all-school field trip (to which I say "YAY! Field Trip!" and the more experienced teachers say, "I wish I could call in sick that day."). Thus, the week leading up to Veterans' Day was a good time to cover this theme. That way, we can rock Tgiving for the last 2 weeks of the month before break. <br />
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First up, a sequencing activity - <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Veterans-Day-Timeline-404394">Veterans Day Timeline</a>. I read a history of the holiday, get to review vocab terms like "armistice" and "observance", talk about what "federal holiday" means, discuss "wh" questions (why did the name change?) and of course...sequencing and retell. I put the events on magnets for the kids to order them because dude...magnets make everything more fun! <br />
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Then I decided have them write letters to the troops, inspired by another Speechy Hero <a href="http://www.erikxraj.com/free-online-workshops">blogger</a>, who suggests letter writing as an excellent speech therapy activity. I downloaded a letter writing <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/FREE-to-Thank-a-Vet-This-Veterans-Day-931699">tip sheet</a> and a flyer from <a href="http://www.operationgratitude.com/">Operation Gratitude</a>, let the student pick the recipient (Wounded Warrior, currently serving or veteran of a specific war) and we worked on an outline today. I will probably continue these through the month and send off a pile of letters and a care package over Turkey break. Hopefully one or two of my students will get a return letter. <br />
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Next, the <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/USA-Synonyms-FREEBIE-735940">USA Synonyms</a> game. Not too many of my kiddos have goals specific for synonyms, most are working on "grade level vocabulary" so I was surprised at how challenging this game was. They tend to default to antonyms. I also made them construct a sentence for each word to work on various syntax goals. <br />
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Finally, not related to Veterans Day, but I am slowly trying to teach the kids the "<a href="http://www.expandingexpression.com/">EET</a>" method of describing things. We do a lot of guessing games, where I instruct them to start with the "Group" (or category) and slowly work their way through the description, otherwise all I get are vague descriptions containing lots of "things" and "stuff". So I pulled 25 cards from a deck of picture cards, whipped up a set of <a href="http://print-bingo.com/">bingo cards</a> and had the kids take turns being the callers, by describing the pictures using at least 3 of the EET "beads". The hardest part is keeping the other players from yelling the answer out after one clue. But they did enjoy it. It could have also been the magnetic chips/wands I let them use, too. Magnets, man. No one is ever too old for magnet fun! <br />
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The benefit of having a caseload comprised of mostly 6th graders with language goals is that I can use the same materials over and over all week with minimal tweaking as I go. So by the time I finally nail the perfect session, it's time to put it all away and start over. <br />
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<br />Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05121123682901167205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9181636076675733612.post-14943504959140896202013-08-09T18:49:00.000-07:002013-08-09T18:52:51.637-07:00The Ukrainian drinks tea during lunch duty. OK, so I started my first job. (Yay, me!) I wanted my first official blog post to be about my speech room design, but it's still a <em>Work in Progress</em>, so that will have to wait until I am ready to call it "done". So my first official blog post as an SLP will be about scheduling. <br />
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You know those logic puzzles? Where you are given a seemingly random set of facts and are instructed to figure out <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra_Puzzle">WHO OWNS THE ZEBRA</a>? <br />
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This is what scheduling a caseload of middle school speech kids is like. The principal specifically instructs you not to pull the kids from core academic classes. The kid's IEP tells you how long and how often you see them. There are 6 periods. There are A schedules and B schedules that alternate. Wednesdays have 7 periods. There are 3 lunches. There is lunch duty and bus duty. Don't forget about the speech meetings, IEP meetings, <a href="http://idea.ed.gov/explore/view/p/,root,dynamic,QaCorner,8,">RTI</a> meetings, faculty meetings, team meetings, department meetings. It's also nice to group your kids by what they are working on: pragmatics, fluency, articulation, etc. Oh and you also have to find room for the 3 kids you have at the school across the street. And last but not least, we are expected to see as many of the kids as possible inside their classroom, or what they call "<a href="http://community.advanceweb.com/blogs/sp_2/archive/2010/09/15/service-delivery-models-push-in.aspx">push in</a>" services. Now do you understand why I cannot figure out WHO OWNS THE @$#@&* ZEBRA????<br />
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And decided to make a giant schedule<br />
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And put all my kids on sticky notes and VOILA:<br />
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Five hours of work and a perfect schedule that was already rendered obsolete by the time the final bell rung because I had at least 2 kids added to my caseload and the VP is planning on completely rearranging the lunch schedules. <br />
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I probably should have listened to my supervisor when she told me to wait until the dust settles to work on my schedule in earnest. What can I say? I'm an excited and enthusiastic new SLP. I want my kids....NOW!<br />
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No zebras were harmed in the writing of this blog. <br />
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<br />Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05121123682901167205noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9181636076675733612.post-33375425647867514722013-07-01T18:08:00.001-07:002013-07-01T18:08:42.004-07:00Professional Issues Class - Book Review<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My last project for class (and for grad school!) is a book review. The assignment:</span> <em> </em><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><em>To help you
understand the impact of a disability on a family, each student will read a
book pertaining to communication disorders and families.</em> We were charged with choosing a book from a great list of options. After reviewing the list, I chose: </span><br />
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is really two books in one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first
part is the personal story of how the Peete and his wife, actress <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_Robinson_Peete">Holly Robinson-Peete</a>, came to grips with
their son RJ’s autism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The second part
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I could relate to a lot of what Peete shared in his book. Stories of how hard it is to let go and allow his son to fail, when you really want to be there each time he stumbles. Stories of minor events, such as oral reports in class or ordering a drink at the fast food counter, and how they become as big as Olympic gold medal moments when you are on the sidelines watching your special needs child accomplish them. He shared their struggles to find the right educational setting for RJ as well as struggles with coming to grips with his expectations of how he would parent vs the reality of what his son needed. Summed up in this quote: <span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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In a way, it seemed like an abandonment of RJ to mentally
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spent my energy trying to turn him into something he was not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I needed to let him be himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s what it takes to be a great dad to
the child you brought into this world: being the person who helps a child grow
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After the personal account of how he was pulled from his denial and self-destructive behaviors (such as drinking) by an ultimatum from his wife, Peete shared the ways he became involved in his son's life and how he became a better man for it. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Peete doesn't just cite high divorce rates among
special needs families, he gives tangible ways to keep your marriage
strong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He doesn't just talk about
how special needs siblings are sometimes given less attention by their parents,
he comes right out and says that one of the best things you can do for your
special needs child is to give him/her siblings!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know the personal struggle of deciding to
have more children when your hands and minds are already so full dealing with
the special needs child you already have. I agree with Peete, my son’s two sisters are the
best social/peer group he could ever have.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They annoy him, they protect him, they include him, they exclude him,
they love him, they brag about him and in the end they love him unconditionally,
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Additionally, Peete gives real world tips on helping your child make friends, getting him/her involved in team sports, and finding support from other parents, specifically dads. He even included a section on finances. Peete admits that they spent around $160,000 per year on RJ's therapies, alternative medical treatments and aides. That is a number not fathomable to families that are not comprised of a former NFL player and an actress. But he does offer some advice and stories of how families of less means have been able to advocate for their children. </span></span></div>
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easy to read, relatable manner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kudos
to the Robinson-Peete family for sharing their struggles as well as their joys
in this book. </span></span></span>Next, I want to purchase the book written by Holly Robinson-Peete and RJ's twin sister Ryan called My Brother Charlie for the sibling perspective. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">For starters, I already have a job lined up. I guess I am better off than a lot of folks about to graduate with their masters degree. I had a choice of a couple school districts in the area and I hope I made the right choice. It was a combination of location, schedule, demographics and size that sold me. However, I don't know where I will be placed. I have been told its either going to be elementary or middle school. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Just because I picked a public school for my first job, doesn't mean that is where I will stay. This field is ripe with choices. Honestly, I cant decide. I'm currently working in a Skilled Nursing Facility and while I hated it at first, those elderly folks are growing on me. I mean, they aren't all Betty White, but I've grown quite attached to my current and former clients. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I really want to try working in a hospital so I can do Modified Barium Swallow Studies. I would get feed people stuff filled with barium and watch the food and drink go down on an Xray machine. How cool is that? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The private clinic setting is more relaxed than a school with way less paperwork. Home health. Early Intervention. Voice work. <a href="http://www.americanhippotherapyassociation.org/hippotherapy/hippotherapy-as-a-treatment-strategy/">Hippotherapy</a>. <a href="http://www.aerieexperiences.com/2012junellama.html">Llama Camp</a>. There are way too many choices And I want to do them all! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Oh and did I mention that I also want to work overseas? At the top of my bucket list is living in another country for at least a year. I want to immerse myself in another culture in a way that vacationing doesn't allow. I want my kids to expand their horizons. Speech Language Pathology opens that door to me, as SLPs are in demand most everywhere. From International Schools to<a href="http://www.dodea.edu/"> DoD schools</a> on overseas military bases to <a href="http://www.asha.org/Publications/leader/2004/041019/041019a.htm">reciprocal agreements</a> between ASHA and their counterparts in other English speaking countries, the opportunities are out there. I do intend to jump on one of them at some point. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Oh and don't think I am done with school! I have big plans. First, my <a href="http://www.bacb.com/index.php?page=2">BCBA certification</a> so I can learn how better to unlock the magic that is inside the autistic brain. I have even researched a <a href="http://neuroscience.gsu.edu/graduate_program.html">PhD program in Neuroscience</a> at Georgia State University. There is so much I don't understand about the brain and my son is my inspiration. This degree has only whet my appetite for additional learning. But first, I have a few student loans to pay off. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I guess, for now I will just keep on trucking with my last class and my last externship. I will finish up with this semester on July 25th and start my job on July 29th. I will complete my <a href="http://www.asha.org/certification/Clinical-Fellowship.htm">Clinical Fellowship Year</a> in 2014. I will get my <a href="http://www.asha.org/uploadedFiles/certification/BrochureCCCSLP.pdf">ASHA CCC's</a> and become a bonafied Speech Language Pathologist. I will make an effort to balance my new career with my family. I will laminate a lot of stuff. I will take a break from reading peer reviewed journal articles for at least 6 months. I will take my kids to Walt Disney World for putting up with a stressed out mom for the last 4 years. I will start contributing to my retirement again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><br />Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05121123682901167205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9181636076675733612.post-21190976702582350572013-06-22T15:02:00.002-07:002013-06-22T15:02:15.567-07:00Professional Issues Class Post 9: Bootcamp<span style="font-family: Arial;"><em>The assignment: Our Web 10 students are coming to Bootcamp next week. Think back to that time
for you. How did it or didn't it shape you? Residential or campus students
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aspects to intense clinical training that are better? Do you think that you
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">My masters degree program is comprised of three parts. All of the coursework is done online, via live Abode Connect chats with the professors and my classmates. The second part is an in person, 6 week "Bootcamp" at Western KY University in Bowling Green, KY where we worked in their Communication Disorders Clinic seeing clients. The third part (that happens while we are still taking classes) is the 3 local externships that we secure ourselves and attend for 40 days each, under the supervision of an ASHA certified SLP. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Bootcamp kind of served as that segue between being a classroom student and a "practicing in the real world" student. The name is apt, because we were all thrown together onto a team, from far corners of the earth (no really, someone came from Morocco), with no idea what we were doing for the most part and all came out of it changed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">For me, it was also the first time I had been away from my home & family for such a long time. I had to leave my kids behind, with my husband and the babysitter responsible for everything from breakfast to bedtime, hair brushing to sunscreen application, endless My Little Pony marathons to endless sibling bickering. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Yup. It might as well have been a spa vacation! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I lived in a studio hotel apartment, got to wake up and get ONLY ONE person ready for the day. I came home to a quiet room that was in the exact state in which I left it. I went out every Thursday night with my friends for drinks and dinner. We hiked the caves, we formed our own Hotel HotTub Club, we shared meals and lots of laughs. It was amazing! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In that short month, we had to review files, create lesson plans, write up daily <a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Soap-Note">SOAP notes</a>, prepare behavioral management tools, familiarize ourselves with assessments, work in teams, work in pairs, track down our supervisors for feedback, interact with parents...oh yeah, and hang out in a room with a kid for 45 minutes while being observed through one way glass and attempting to "therapize" said child! Actually, the kids were the least scary part of the process. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">SLP students at a traditional graduate program will pick up 1 or 2 clients over the course of an entire semester. There are some pros to the intensive immersion program. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">With Bootcamp, we were constantly under pressures of deadlines for lesson plans and treatment summaries and assessment reports. With only 3 clients (2 of which had both group and individual therapy), I felt like I was always running around, prepping or writing paperwork. I wondered how on earth I would manage a caseload of 50! I didn't have the time or resources to print ideas of Pinterest, so I had to learn quickly how to use what we had in the clinic to make the most of my therapy sessions. I had to chase down supervisors to answer questions, which I have learned is very typical of the real world. I would rush around behind the scenes getting ready and then appear composed when I walked out that door to meet my client. When taking over a client for a classmate, I sometimes ended up with back to back to back sessions, so I had to plan early for the entire morning. Sometimes I desperately needed blue construction paper and all we had was green, so I had to switch gears and change my craft from the ocean to a tree! It was crazy, hectic and busy, but very much like the average day of an SLP. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">However, one major con to the intensive program is that we didn't really get to see much change over the course of the month. We were just finishing up treatment plans when we needed to start working on our final summaries. For one child, it took the whole month to get through a <a href="http://www.pearsonassessments.com/HAIWEB/Cultures/en-us/Productdetail.htm?Pid=PLS-5">PLS-5</a> assessment (and the language sample, oral exam, hearing screen, etc) and I had no chance to work on the goals I had to write for him. Bummer, dude!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I can't say I was totally prepared for my first externship. First of all, each setting (I have done a public elementary school, a private speech clinic and a skilled nursing facility) has its own guidelines for paperwork, lesson planning and client contact. Each setting has access to different materials and requires different levels of planning and creativity. It's really been in that externship process that I have found myself as an SLP. But I don't think a traditional campus clinic setting would have been much different. It's really merely a taste of what's to come. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I walked out of the Bootcamp experience like a person who just jumped into a freezing cold pool. Shell shocked, wondering what just happened and a little embarrassed at the end results. But some of those big hurdles had been conquered...like talking to parents, meeting a kid for the first time, overcoming a child's reluctance to speak, working with a nonverbal child. Which gave me the confidence to jump over more hurdles in future settings. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"></span>Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05121123682901167205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9181636076675733612.post-24718445067942429642013-06-17T16:51:00.000-07:002013-06-17T16:54:49.686-07:00Professional Issues Class Post 8: Social Media<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The assignment: <span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Discuss the role of social media in your education. Then talk
about how (if?) you anticipate using it professionally. Are there
more disadvantages or advantages? What are the cautions for you, your clients,
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Of course, I am a little nervous about entering a job in a public school setting and worrying about whether I can still drunk-post from the karaoke bar without fearing a loss of my job. On one hand, I have been told to just avoid accepting coworkers as FB friends and yet on the other hand, I have been told that there are no privacy settings that can keep someone away from your info if they really want to see it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Sharing some of the gritty details of my life is what allows me to connect with others. Sometimes being a stay at home mom, a special needs mom, a student in a distance education...can be lonely. As an extrovert, I crave contact with others and social media allows that. I share about a bad day with the kids, other moms commiserate, we laugh, we cry and we keep on trucking and sharing funny pictures like this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So I have not yet decided how I will handle my potential for over-share on Facebook once I am gainfully employed. I predict references to vodka will reduce by 79%. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I suppose I could switch to LinkedIn and be all professional-like. But LinkedIn is kinda boring. It seems to be all resumes and recruiters. Which is great if you're job hunting, but not what I am looking for in day to day online camaraderie. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I suppose I could finally learn how to Twit, er rather Tweet or whatever they do on Twitter that includes all those ###'s. Those <a href="https://twitter.com/SLPeeps">SLPeeps</a> looked like a really fun group at the 2012 ASHA Conference. They even did a Flashmob!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I do know that I will not give up on Pinterest. <a href="http://pinterest.com/jennszoo/speechy-stuff/">Pinterest</a> single handedly got me through my first two internships with great therapy ideas that kept me laminating stuff late into the evening. I appreciate all of the SLP's who are out there blogging and sharing ideas, and putting documents up on <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/">Teachers Pay Teachers</a> for download. Maybe one day, this blog will serve as a place for me to share ideas and tools, so that I can pay it forward a bit. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Hopefully the Facebook group that my classmates and I have been posting on together for 2 years now will stay active and we can support each other as we enter the "real world". I am sure not having deadlines and group projects to keep up with on a regular basis will slow the activity down a bit. But in the end, I am thankful for all of the amazing ways that social media makes this world a little friendlier, a little smaller and a lot more colorful. </span><br />
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not comfortable with this topic. Why is that and what can you do to feel
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">An adolescent girl who is falling behind in her class academically because she has an auditory processing disorder. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">A retired teacher in the early stages of Alzheimer's. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">A middle aged woman who attended a weekly coffee klatch with her friends, but can no longer eat safely after her throat cancer treatment. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">A 10 year old boy with Asperger's who wants desperately to make friends but cannot. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">A 2nd grader who is being teased because her /r/ distortion makes her "sound like a baby". </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">A father of 3 who is slowly loosing his ability to speak due to ALS. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">These are just a few examples of situations in which the SLP may be called upon to provide more than just speech/language/swallowing therapy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">But do we need additional classes or training to handle this? I don't think so. I think this profession, like nursing and social work and other "caring" professions, attracts people who bring a level of compassion and understanding to the table already. Or in other words, if you don't have those skills, no class on earth is going to be able to teach them to you. Furthermore, if you don't have the ability to empathize with your clients and see the bigger picture, then you wont last long in this business! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I also don't think it's rocket science. It comes down to Respect and Kindness. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Every client, as well as every parent or loved one of that client, deserves our respect. We should never look at this person in front of us as "the stutterer" or "the biter" or the "grumpy old man" but rather maintain their humanity in everything we do. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I would hope that if I ever found myself lacking in these two areas, that I would reassess my current job and decide if I am in the right place for me at that time. I understand that while it sounds simple to break it down to two words, it will not always be easy. We are all human and get affected by stress, deadlines, Seasonal Affective Disorder and IEP season. And if I falter in giving my clients the best care possible, I hope those around me can send a little Kindness and Respect my way. I promise to pay it back! </span></div>
Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05121123682901167205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9181636076675733612.post-63088568604447762902013-06-12T20:14:00.005-07:002013-06-15T11:36:36.759-07:00Professional Issues Class Post 6: Dreaming of a speech room<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The assignment: At the beginning of class, we talked about what would make a person happy or satisfied in a position.
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your profession.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What do you want –
interior hall, lots of windows, solo practice, teamwork, variety, continuity,
change, stability, something new every day, routine? Those are just examples to
guide your thinking – the only thing that would get your entry not approved is
if you reference speech-language pathology. I want you to think about the
environment more than the specific duties.</em> <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Did my professor just give me free reign to peruse Pinterest
for Speech Room Organization ideas for the next 4 hours?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">brb...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OK.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was
fun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I went </span><a href="http://pinterest.com/rperk731/speech-room-decor-organization/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://pinterest.com/megannoel73/speech-room-decor/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and then over
</span><a href="http://pinterest.com/jackieslp/speech-room-decor/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and then hung out </span><a href="http://pinterest.com/scsmith11/my-speech-room/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> for awhile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Really, I dream of having my own speech room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Right now, my "office" is a corner
of a home office I share with my husband.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And since I am one of those creative types, it's not very
organized.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only thing I can
pretty much find right away is the laminator.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Everything else is buried somewhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I look forward to the day I get my very own, real live SPEECH ROOM that
I can decorate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bulletin
Boards...y'all!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OK, so obviously, a space of my own is important.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With a door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Windows are optional.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am easily
distracted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Technology? I know a lot of schools are using Smart Boards these days. There are a lot of great </span><a href="http://www.speechtechie.com/2012/09/what-to-do-with-that-smartboard.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ideas for using smart boards in speech therapy</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> and if I had one, I would definitely take some time to learn how to integrate that technology into my therapy plans. However, I don't think tech is necessary for speech therapy. Kids are inundated with tech every day. I doubt anyone in the 4-10yr old demographic is even impressed at the sight of an iPad anymore.</span> </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">He'll master Angry Birds Star Wars before his mom changes the next diaper!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">But they sure still do get excited over a game where you pick up /l/ cards with a magnetic fishing pole. Seriously...this was the biggest hit ever with kids of all ages last semester:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">This is my kid, doing hi-tech home speech therapy. "Look mom, paper clips!"</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Teamwork. I like collaborating with peers. <--That's a fancy way of saying I realize I barely know what I am doing and like surrounding myself with smart people who do. I hope I end up in a setting where the SLP is considered a valued member of the educational team, and not someone who just pulls kids away from their "real work" to play games. I wouldn't last long in an adversarial environment like that.</span> </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I went to grad school just so I can get paid to play this!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Change. This is a major draw to this field as a whole for me. I love the variety! The very idea that my day is comprised of 10 (or so) segments of therapy, in which no two will ever be the same, is right up my alley. I could never work an assembly line. Doing the same thing, every day, week after week is not my style.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Autonomy with accountability. I've heard of school Principals requesting the SLP's lesson plans every week. I don't mind someone checking on me and making sure I am doing my job to the best of my abilities, which will happen naturally in my </span><a href="http://www.asha.org/certification/Clinical-Fellowship.htm"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Clinical Fellowship</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> year, but I also don't want to feel like someone hired me but doesn't trust me to do the job at all. I don't have a problem asking for help when I need it and learning from others. I just don't think I need someone looking over my shoulder every day. That makes me nervous! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now if you'll excuse me, I have more </span><a href="http://thegiftofgab-slp.blogspot.com/2013/01/welcome-to-my-speech-room.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">speech rooms</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> to go drool over....</span></span><br />
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<br />Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05121123682901167205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9181636076675733612.post-53225751367640226512013-06-08T16:14:00.000-07:002013-06-08T16:18:55.850-07:00Professional Issues Class Post 5: Ethics<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The assignment: </em></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>What do you think contributes to ethical lapses in the profession and how
can they be prevented? Have you seen anything in your externships
that could lead to ethical lapses? One component of the Code of
Ethics is that you have to report it if you think there is a
violation. Not to do so, is in itself, a violation.</em> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">A lot of people like to distinguish between what is Ethical versus what is Legal. I think the conventional wisdom is that "legal" is the bare minimum and as humans with functioning frontal lobes, we tend to do the right thing for higher reasons...or rather just because something is legal, doesn't mean it's ethical. In other words, the principal of "ethics" is what separates us from the lower life forms who just do the right thing to avoid negative consequences. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, some folks can use the <em>Ethical versus Legal</em> debate to justify doing something technically illegal, but for the "greater good". They may use it to justify the idea that while laws are great for the most part, sometimes you may have to bend the law a little in order to do the right thing. Sort of a modern day Robin Hood. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I feel there could be a risk of ethical lapses in my future profession when it comes to insurance and billing. Rules, regulations, Medicaid/Medicare changes, therapy caps, pre-existing conditions, benefit limits, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">copays, deductibles, paperwork and more paperwork. SLPs (and other "helping professionals") get into this business because they care about people. We want to help. We forge relationships with our clients and their families. It gets hard when you just want to help a child, but are up against regulations that state you can't, because a client has run out of visits, or that their speech therapy isn't "life sustaining" or that the copay has gone up and the parents just cant afford treatment anymore. It would be tempting to fudge a little paperwork, trump up a goal or two or some other "little white lie" that would not really hurt anyone, other than a faceless insurance company or government entity. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I imagine this kind of thing comes up more in a private clinic setting, where the clinician is directly involved with billing. However, even in a school setting, I can see how one might be tempted to embellish an assessment score to make sure a child qualified. Maybe you think a child may benefit from your services but the numerical data is not falling within the required range in order for you to qualify them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While I haven't had the opportunity to experience any situation like this, I am not going to fool myself into </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">thinking I wont be faced with such dilemmas at some point. I hope that I can keep the profession as a whole in mind, and continue to uphold the <a href="http://www.asha.org/policy/ET2010-00309/">standards</a> we are asked to represent as SLPs. One embellished test score or trumped up goal may not seem like much, but is it worth it to taint the whole industry? Will we really be able to continue helping the thousands of children we currently help if we give the impression that we have to lie to make a difference? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Turning away that one client may break my heart into a million pieces. But what can I do? I can compile a list of resources of where they can get help. I can point those families towards </span><a href="http://www.health.state.ga.us/programs/bcw/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Babies Cant Wait</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, or </span><a href="http://www.focus-ga.org/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FOCUS</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> or </span><a href="http://www.p2pga.org/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Parent to Parent of GA</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. I can continue to advocate through <a href="http://www.asha.org/advocacy/">ASHA</a> or <a href="http://gsa.memberclicks.net/">GSHA</a> for insurance and Medicare billing policies that allow us to help those we want to help.</span> <br />
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Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05121123682901167205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9181636076675733612.post-36148887768756206122013-06-01T12:19:00.003-07:002013-06-01T12:23:16.265-07:00Professional Issues Class Post 4: Join all the SIGs!<br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The assignment: As noted a few times, ASHA offers Special Interest
Groups.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Review those on the ASHA web
site. Suppose a kind soul were to pay for you to join one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which might you join and why?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or might you say to the kind soul, use your
funds for something else - I'm more of a generalist right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the latter is your choice, why do you feel
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ASHA offers </span><a href="http://www.asha.org/SIG/Special-Interest-Group-Descriptions/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">18 Special Interest Groups</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (SIGs) and as a
student, I can join these SIGs for the bargain price of only $10, versus
$35.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then why haven’t I jumped on it
like a set of NWT Hanna Andersson Christmas dresses for $2.29 at Goodwill? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because I can’t decide!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Maybe I am the generalist described above.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This field is so broad…from the NICU to
hospice, from figurative language to lisps, from schools to hospitals, from
accent reduction to transgender voice issues, from tracheostomies to cochlear
implants…we have the potential to work ANYWHERE and with just about
ANYONE!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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For someone with the kind of ADHD that makes them shut down
in the face “where do I start?” then you can see how this is a problem for
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Looking at the list and trying to
choose one is like looking at this room and trying to figure out where to start
cleaning:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most likely, if I *had* to pick one, it would be <strong><a href="http://www.asha.org/SIG/01/">SIG 1,Language Learning and Education</a></strong>, because it seems to be the most general, and
if I end up working with children, the most applicable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I also have a special interest in <strong><a href="http://www.asha.org/SIG/12/">SIG12, Augmentative and Alternative Communication</a></strong>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love the idea of using technology to give
a voice to someone who was previously nonverbal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One day I hope to travel the world and spend
some time as an ex-pat working in another country, so <strong><a href="http://www.asha.org/SIG/17/">SIG 17, Global Issues inCommunication Sciences and Related Disorders</a></strong> might be a good fit for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then of course there is <a href="http://www.asha.org/SIG/16/">SIG 16, School-BasedIssues</a>, since I will likely work in a school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But what if I decide to work part-time at a hospital or SNF, which means
I should join <strong><a href="http://www.asha.org/SIG/13/">SIG 13, Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders (Dysphagia)</a></strong> and <strong><a href="http://www.asha.org/SIG/15/">SIG15, Gerontology</a></strong> and <strong><a href="http://www.asha.org/SIG/02/">SIG 2, Neurophysiology and Neurogenic Speech and LanguageDisorders</a></strong>! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or rather, I will just take the stance of Generalist until
that kind soul hands over a credit card to hook a girl up.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05121123682901167205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9181636076675733612.post-70285138713579381362013-05-30T16:57:00.000-07:002013-05-30T16:57:03.471-07:00Professional Issues Class Post 3: My Ideal Mentor
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The assignment: Describe your ideal CF mentor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Think about who you are and how you learn
when thinking about the person who you want to guide you into the part of the
profession.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thinking again about your
learning style, what are your concerns about the CF and can you best prepare
for whatever concerns remain?</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After I graduate, I get to hang out in some sort
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During my 3 clinical externships, I have had 6 different
supervisors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every one of them has been kind,
helpful and patient; never failing to answer my multitude of questions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have heard stories of other clinical
supervisors setting up adversarial, drill-sergeant type relationships where
students are quizzed on anatomical terms at random times and put on the spot in front of clients.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe that kind of tough love works for
some, but I fear such a tactic would shatter my fragile confidence like a
watermelon in a prop comic’s routine.</span> </div>
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to when a client hits me with a question that I have no idea how to
answer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But rather, this mentor guides
me from afar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will meet several times
per quarter, but basically I will go to my mentor with the big questions,
while I will be on my own to figure out the small day-to-day challenges in the trenches</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Which brings me to my answer to this week's question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What am I looking for in an ideal CF Mentor? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Sense of
humor</strong>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like to laugh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I joke around a lot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know that I could work closely with
someone for a whole year if we couldn’t laugh together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because sometimes kids do gross things or
deadlines get missed and you just have to laugh your way through to the other
side of whatever mess you are in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we'll start with an ideal mentor who is 1 part Wanda
Sykes:</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Patience</strong>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Like I said before, I ask a million questions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a child, I got the distinct impression
that my teachers didn’t always appreciate my curious nature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As an adult, raising a miniature version of
myself, I now understand the patience it requires to deal with someone who Must
Know All The Things At All The Times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not
understanding something is not an option.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Therefore, my mentor should also be 1 part Fred Rogers:</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Creativity</strong>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This goes without saying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t need a mentor who thinks that a
<a href="http://adhdcrochet.blogspot.com/2012/02/crocheted-larynx.html">crocheted larynx</a> is over the top.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or
that photocopied worksheets are “good enough." Or wonders why anyone would own a
laminator.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Pshaw. </span>So let's add 1 part Martha in there somewhere:</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Ingenuity</strong>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But I’m still paying off student loans, so I'll do best with someone who
can help me brainstorm marvelous lesson plans and therapy ideas out of common
household items and supplies found around the workplace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here we’ll add a dash of MacGyver:</span><br />
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mentor who looks a little like Zachary Quinto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Regardless of who I end up with, I look forward to the
experience and I am glad that ASHA provides us a little safety net before we
are thrust out there into the world of Speech Pathology on our own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While I may need a little nudge from the
nest, I hope it’s a gentle nudge and not a full forced shove.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Either way, I’m going to have to learn to
spread those wings eventually.</span> <br />
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Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05121123682901167205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9181636076675733612.post-9139074487804299772013-05-28T14:09:00.003-07:002013-05-28T14:09:37.664-07:00First Interview tomorrow!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We interrupt this regularly scheduled class blog for an important announcement: I have my first, real SLP job interview tomorrow. It's at a local school district, within 30 mins of my house. One that is small (only 1 high school, 1 middle school and 8 elementary schools) which is nice because most of the districts around here are huge, with multiple high schools and many, many feeder schools. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am polishing up my resume tonight, working up a cover letter, digging for decent clothing to pack tomorrow, so I can scramble my way out of my internship at 2, change at a friends house and arrive at the interview sweaty and out of breath before 3pm. I picture myself looking something like this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also trying to prep my interview questions & answers. </span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interviewer: What is your biggest fault? </span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Me: Well, I regret to say that I am a workaholic and a perfectionist. My therapist and I are working on it, but my potential employer well benefit from it, at least until the meds kick in.</strong> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But seriously, I just hope I don't blather on and on about why I decided to make this mid life change to become an SLP and can keep my answers brief and not too personal. As to the questions I plan to ask, I need to find a way to express my desire not to work with preschoolers in a socially appropriate manner. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>"Ma'am, I listen to enough whining at home to fill three lifetimes, so mayhap you can hook me up with some older kiddos on my caseload?"</strong> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Luckily, tricky questions about salary wont come up, because they are all graded out and posted clearly on their website. Which is good, because after all these years of school and internships, I will just be so happy to get paid anything, I might enthusiastically accept an offer of "$1/hr plus tips" without thinking twice.</span> <br />
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Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05121123682901167205noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9181636076675733612.post-41948873086314487062013-05-27T14:16:00.001-07:002013-05-27T14:18:57.492-07:00Professional Issues Class Post 2: Take me out to the ball game<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The assignment: As of 8/31/13, WKU is going to tell the world
that you have speech-language-hearing competencies in nine areas. Given
that just because you're recognized as being competent doesn't mean that you
are, what are your thoughts? Do you feel competent to assess and treat each of
the big nine across the lifespan? </em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So basically, when I graduate, I
will technically be an expert in the “Big 9” competency areas, as defined by
our governing body, ASHA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s all
sort of loosely defined </span><a href="http://www.asha.org/docs/html/SP2007-00283.html"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, but according to the
database that is getting checked off with each internship I complete, the Big 9
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Language, Articulation, Voice &
Resonance, Fluency, Swallowing, Hearing, Cognitive Aspects of Communication,
Social Aspects of Communication, and Communication Modalities</strong></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since it’s summer and we’re in
America and I love America’s Pastime, I have decided to address my competency
in each of these areas with a baseball analogy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If the competency was a pitch, lobbed to me as I waited in the batter’s
box, what would I do with it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And….it’s…OUTTA HERE!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Oh yeah, I love Language.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love
breaking down our spoken language into building blocks and deciphering where
the breakdown is occurring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is the child
having trouble with answering detailed questions from a story because she doesn’t
understand temporal or positional concepts or because there is a deficit in
vocabulary or because she did not effectively sequence the events of the story
in her mind?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love tying language
to literacy and using children’s books to teach language
concepts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love bringing colorful
manipulatves into the therapy room and watching a child learn a concept and
have fun at the same time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh yeah,
bring it on!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m competent like The Babe! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><u>Social Aspects: Inside the Park Home
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fence to the roar of the crowd.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe
more of a squibber down the third base line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But social aspects, in my opinion encompass a lot of the work we do with
individuals on the autism spectrum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Because I </span>
live with autism 24/7, as well as two neurotypical children, I have a microcosm
social study in my home and it never fails to amaze me how natural it is for my
girls to navigate that maze of social interaction and how much of it needs to
be taught to my son, like learning all of the ‘<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-stan">Stans</a> in geography.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Social aspects means helping my clients
understand emotions, the rules of conversation, the rules of the playground,
the rules of personal space as well as the rules of the game – whether that game is Pokémon or dating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I truly enjoy
this and have had experiences working on social development through drama therapy, in
structured conversations and semi-structured activities such as cooking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have no doubt I could score a run for the
team in this area, even if it means I had to count on the left fielder taking a
bit of an early dive in a failed attempt to make the big play. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Communication Modalities encompasses the use of an
alternative system for communication.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are several options for higher tech
devices, such as iPads and Dynavox computer systems, but there are also
simpler, lower tech forms of allowing someone to communicate nonverbally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a special interest to me and I have
had a pretty good amount of experience over the course of my prior 2
internships, with clients at a variety of communication levels using a variety
of devices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While I doubt I could put a
run up on the scoreboard myself in this area right now, I feel like it could
definitely be an area I could specialize in with some more training and
experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><u>Articulation: Slid into second,
just under the tag</u></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yeah, so I can get on base with articulation, but I don’t feel
super confident.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can elicit some of
the more visual sounds pretty easily, like /l/ and /th/, but I still struggle
with /r/ and vowels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ADHD that attracted
me to this profession because of the inherent variety involved in conducting
therapy in 30 minute blocks, also makes it hard for me to stick with the
drill and repetition needed to make changes in a client's muscle memory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can get it done, but
not in one swing, and I need an assist to score, which will likely come in the form
of <a href="http://pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=articulation">Pinterest</a> ideas. </span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Granted, I am only 2 weeks into my internship that focuses
on dysphagia treatment and assessment, but I feel like I could be the guy who
consistently gets the single, gets on base, keeps the inning going - <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ms Dependable, but none of that will get me
into the Hall of Fame.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I understand the
anatomy involved, I have a good grasp of the exercises and why they are used
and I think that by the end of my internship, I will be pretty competent at
swallowing treatment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Put me in coach....I'm ready to play....today. </span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hit it hard,
it went flying off the bat, but the short stop bobbled it and that allowed me
to get to first base.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am still going to be able to help the team
score, since I didn’t get out, but I am not very confident with how I got
there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have trouble deciphering the
difference between working on articulation versus the specifics of aural
rehabilitation for clients with Cochlear Implants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I still struggle to keep my voice loud
enough, consistently, for elderly clients with <a href="http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/hearing/pages/presbycusis.aspx">presbycusis</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
could use a lot more time in the cage, practicing my swing in order to
effectively serve those with hearing impairments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hey, I’m on base.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Maybe it wasn’t pretty, but I got here and the inning isn’t over
yet!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I worked with an adult voice
client and I took data and measured her pitch and led her in her voice
exercises, but I don’t have the confidence that I personally did anything profound
to help her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do have an interest in
instrumental assessment, so maybe one day I will have a chance work in a voice
clinic and check out someone’s vocal folds with a scope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Until then, I’ll just straddle the plate a
little too much and hope to keep the inning alive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cognition, or working with the effects of language and memory
with patients who are suffering from dementia, is very difficult for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again, I am only 2 weeks into this aspect of
treatment, so I know that with experience, I will better be able to handle the
emotional ramifications of short term memory loss and deterioration in
cognitive skills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the meantime, will
make that sacrifice bunt to get the runner over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words, I will do what is expected of
me, but I would much rather swing for the fence with language or social
aspects. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<strong><u>Fluency: </u></strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><u>Hit into a double
Play</u></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fluency (aka stuttering) is a pitch you don’t want me to
face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bring in the pinch hitter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I worked with one preschool client and one
of the hardest things for me to do in his treatment, was <em>not to treat</em>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A lot of the basis of early fluency treatment
is to deal with it <a href="http://www.asha.org/uploadedFiles/asha/publications/cicsd/2010SAReviewofStutteringInterventionApproaches.pdf">indirectly</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The therapist is supposed to model and
encourage slow, easy speech, educate the parents, but not directly address the
stuttering.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m a doer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And despite the fact that I saw this very approach work very well with a
young client of ours, I know that in the real world, I will start swinging for
the fences and in my attempt to overachieve, I will hit into an inning ending
double play. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All that said, I feel very fortunate to be entering a field
with so much diversity that I will challenge myself to
continue learning, developing new skills, and expanding my own comfort
zones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05121123682901167205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9181636076675733612.post-15575171614712409012013-05-26T07:41:00.005-07:002013-05-26T08:36:36.782-07:00Professional Issues Class Post 1: Snow forts and lightbulbs<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For my final graduate school course, we are charged with
creating a blog that will serve as a tool for making personal reflections on
our journey and the path ahead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
first assignment involved perusing 6 pages of quotations about education
and learning, to find the ones that “spoke to us” about the journey we have made thus far.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was tempted go just go with:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">D'oh!<o:p></o:p></span></strong></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">-- Homer Simpson, Matt
Groening cartoon, Unknown</span></strong></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I mean, my entire
life to now could probably be summed up in a series of Homer Simpson quotes,
but rather than the above (which actually was included on the list for the
assignment!) I would have picked:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alright Brain, you don't like me, and I
don't like you. But lets just do this, and I can get back to killing you with
beer.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">-- Homer Simpson, Matt
Groening cartoon, Unknown<o:p></o:p></span></span></strong></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I may or may not have had that exact same conversation with
my brain every time a writing assignment has been due for the past 3 ½ years. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alas, that one wasn’t on the list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So in an effort to write something a little more
inspirational, I picked the following:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Don't wait for something big to occur. Start
where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something
greater.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">-- Mary Manin
Morrissey, Unknown, Unknown<o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">People often say that if you wait for the "best time" to have children, you never will. Having been a parent for the past 12 years now, I can heartily agree. Is there ever a "best time" to decide to forgo sleeping in on weekends for the rest of your life? When is the best time to decide that your DVR no longer needs to be full of action movies and trashy reality TV, but rather 782 episodes of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic in HD?</span><br />
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the end, most people just go for it. They find a way to fit those adorable little beasties we call children into their lives and most of us are better off for it. I find the same is true of going back to school. I already covered the </span><a href="http://gradschoolmama2010.blogspot.com/2009/11/who.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Who</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://gradschoolmama2010.blogspot.com/2009/11/what.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> & </span><a href="http://gradschoolmama2010.blogspot.com/2009/11/why.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> in my now defunct <strong>Grad School Mama 2010</strong> blog, but the When is really the point of this post. <br /><br />Is there ever a perfect time to spend $30,000 for the privilege of replacing all fiction reading with peer reviewed research journal articles? Is there ever a perfect time to choose to stay up late for class 3 nights a week and turn your social life into a distant memory? Is there ever a perfect time to drag yourself out of bed at 6:30 in the morning to don scrubs and march into the Skilled Nursing Facility to be drilled by your supervisor on various dysphagia exercises? </span></o:p></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nah, you just do it. You take that first step and then keep at it, one foot in front of the other. FAFSA, GRE, Admission Essays, transcripts, textbooks, Blackboard, research papers, clinical placements, CPR training, lesson planning, laminating, Pinterest, childcare juggling, Praxis, resumes and before you know it, you are writing blog posts for your final class. </span></o:p></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reading back on that old blog, I am glad I decided to go for it. I worried that I would be 40 by the time I graduated. Well, as the old saying goes "you'll be 40 anyway. " </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because school is work, and if you just focus on the drudgery, it's enough to make you quit. But building a snow fort is fun! My snow fort is built with bricks of knowledge, friendship, accomplishment, inspiration, empathy, growth and humility. Or maybe it looks something like this:</span></div>
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This blog is a requirement for my final class in graduate school, but I also hope to use it to chat about my journey from being the parent to a wonderful 12 year old boy with Autism, to the other side of the IEP table, as a newly minted school-based Speech Language Pathologist. <br />
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Stay tuned for more words of wisdom. Or words of stress. Or words of humor. <br />
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