Author Archives: Mary Huston, PhD; MS, CCC-SLP

Why wait?

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One of my recent posts spurred a flurry of comments. I posted a similar question over on the facebook SLPeeps page to see what the response was there as well. I am somewhat surprised and a bit dismayed to see the comments were very similar. It seems a lot of SLPs are disenchanted with their work situations. While this doesn’t affect me directly, it concerns me greatly.

After doing a bit of soul searching and deep pondering (amidst a bit of nail biting and video game playing)…I decided…why wait?

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Adventures in Certification

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Do you have your CCCs? Are you working toward getting your CCCs? Do you have your C-SLP (if you are Canadian)? Can you believe that this post is actually not about your CCCs…but another type of certification entirely?

And one that really doesn’t have anything to do with our job but many SLPs are still required to obtain?

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What’s in a Name?

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I’ve been hesitant about writing this post for a few reasons…

1) I’m a fairly new blogger and I would hate to lose readers already…2) There’s a fair amount of controversy that rears its ugly head periodically and this is one of those… and 3) Similar blogs have been written recently and I didn’t want to step on toes.

That being said…I think it’s time to delve in and stir up the waters just a bit. I guess we’ll see who is listening…err… reading.

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