Hold up. Just to be clear, this is not a feel-good, marshmallow-fluff kind-of-post. It is a hard post, one that was hard for me to write and one that is hard to read.  You may not like it or agree with it.  My finger lingered a long moment over that “publish post” button before I […]

I’m slow to change. Okay, actually, I hate change. I wish I didn’t. I wish I could be one of those people that takes change by the horns and embraces it. But…I’m not. And…it’s everywhere. As soon as you learn one thing, it seems another has already popped up. Perhaps that’s why I’ve been slow […]

If you follow me on Facebook, you might have seen this article I recently linked to, which talks about introverts and the ways they interact differently than their extravert counterparts. Right here and now, I admit it-I am an introvert.  I prefer to read rather than interact socially. I am quiet. I am slow to […]

We wear a lot of hats. My school psychologist once told me “A speech therapist’s job is divided into three parts. One part therapist, one part teacher, and one part school psychologist.” She got it. We do teach. We do evaluate. We do progress monitor. We do paperwork. But we also often have the privilege […]

Do you ever picture what our kids must see when they look at us? I started doing this this year-actually, I took it at step further and started recording my sessions with the camera looking a me-and this is what I saw: I’m waiting, expectantly, for the correct answer-no, sometimes even just for AN answer-so […]

Because I make Common Core products, I am often asked questions on how to incorporate them into what we do. Now, I am in no way an expert on all things Common Core. I don’t even pretend to be! This post has taken me about a month to write (mainly because I start working on […]

This year I did something that never crossed my mind when I first traveled aboard this exciting adventure known as Speech Language Pathologist: I went out on a limb and am currently serving as secretary on the board for my state organization (OSSPEAC) Confession: This was uncharted waters for me. I never had experience taking […]

I’ve been there. Each year during my professional development conference, I sit through another “push into the classrooms” seminar. Every year I try. And every year…I feel disappointed in myself with the way it goes. I really want it to work and I thought I was doing what I was supposed to. After all, we’re told again and again that the […]

Busy. Let me say that again BUSY…I often joke with my husband saying “I work more than enough during 10 months of the year to make up for the 2 off in the summer.” In other words, SLP = Stressed and Labored Professional.  Currently, the topic of caseload vs. workload has been hot in my […]

  There has been a lot of talk recently about “Emotional Intelligence,” or EQ. So…what is the definition of EQ? “Your EQ is the level of your ability to understand other people, what motivates them and how to work cooperatively with them,” says Howard Gardner, a Harvard theorist. According to Psych Central, Emotional intelligence is […]