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Adventures with Advanced Medical

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This blog post brought to you by our friends at Advanced Medical:

Advanced Medical, a travel therapy company that provides great nationwide opportunities for traveling Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists and Speech Language Pathologists in the specialty of your choice.  Search their travel SLP jobs on their site and know that their goal is to make your travel therapy experience an enjoyable and memorable one.

This blog post is also known as…OH MY GOSH someone wanted to interview me!

Alternately known as Resistance is Futile…just give in already!

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Adventures in Burlesque

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I was recently flipping through the channels on TV and came across Cher’s movie Burlesque. Now, this is not my “typical” movie type to watch… I like Cher, I like singing an dancing…but uhm…wow! There is a very definite difference of “normal” in the movie. Of course, the movie is rated PG-13 so it can’t be that bad…right?

Are you wondering how this ties into speech and language?

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Adventures in Faux Pas

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Also known as Adventures in Oh No…I Made Her Cry!

Yep…I’m not ashamed to admit it. I made a student cry…the first time I saw her this school year. *sigh* But really…it wasn’t my fault. Well, okay…it was…sort of.

One of the activities that I do at the beginning of the year is a “get to know you” activity. You know one of those fill in the blank worksheets that you can do with your students. It tells all about likes/dislikes/familymembers/bad habits…whatever. They are innocent…safe…and somewhat fun-like activities…right? Right? Wrong… Continue reading →

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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