SLP Skills Saturday #1

I’ve decided to add another themed day to go along with my “What’s Up Wednesdays”. The new themed day, “SLP Skills Saturday” will be a bi-weekly feature that will highlight a different personality trait or characteristic that I think SLPs need. Hope you enjoy, and don’t forget to follow me or like/comment/share my posts! IContinue

What’s Up Wednesdays: Music and Speech Therapy

I recently came across the article “Musical Strategies” that was archived from the magazine Advance. It was published in November 2012 and written by Louise Patrick, PhD , detailing the incorporation of music into children’s speech therapy programs.  Despite the ever-growing reductions in education funding taking out extra programs like music and art, there is aContinue

Unique SLP Opportunities

Now, you probably have heard of the typical settings in which Speech-Language Pathologists work through your research of the profession. Time and time again you’ve become aware that most SLP graduate students often face the ultimatums of either Medical vs School and Adult vs Child speech therapy. After all, there’s countless blogs written by and forContinue

Neuroanatomy: Scary, Yet Intruiging

As per the ASHA requirements, and many American graduate program pre-requisites, those wanting to become a certified SLP must take classes in the biological sciences. They must pertain to human or animal biology as well. It makes sense, after all, how do you expect to understanding speech and hearing mechanisms without understanding the underlying mechanismsContinue

Supplements (aka Gaining Experience… aka Getting Those 25 Hours)

As per the CSD program at my school, we are required to have 25 hours of observation of SLPs/Audiologists in order to graduate with a BS in CSD. Now, I don’t know much about other university’s programs, but I think all future SLPs and Audiologists in training need these as well. Luckily most students aroundContinue

Schwa Has One Good Life…

Here’s a quick little linguistic joke since the weekend is just about there! Time for some (minor) relaxation! I just love these “Linguist Llama” memes… some are quite funny.:) On a side note: I’ve finally got some responses back on possible SLP shadow opportunities! Now I just need to get some more responses, as wellContinue

What’s Up Wednesdays: Temple Grandin

Hello all! Well here we are at my first edition of “What’s Up Wednesdays”. Basically, I am hoping to enlighten everyone each week with something new and interesting that I find. These will typically have some relation to Speech-Language Pathology or Linguistics and related subjects, such as: Genetics, Audiology, Disorders/Diseases, Technology, etc. I’ll provide writtenContinue