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The Biggest Mistake I Made in Speech Therapy When Correcting a Lisp

I sat there wondering how to correct a lisp… “Okay, hide your tongue behind your teeth,” I suggested. I was sitting in another speech therapy session with a student, trying to correct a frontal lisp. Unsuccessfully, I might add. “Thhhhhhhh,” was the response. Well, to be fair, my student HAD put his tongue behind his…

Avoiding SLP Burn-Out

Avoiding SLP Burn-Out

Speech therapy is a rewarding job. I have to admit it, though: speech-language pathology can be super, super stressful at times. I remember a few years back, during a particularly difficult time in my career. I was working in an outpatient setting at the time. I have always been a lifelong learner, and I sometimes…

Ghost Talk Blog Hop

I love all things Fall and Halloween. I’m sitting here, typing out this blog post, just wishing I was sipping on some pumpkin-flavored coffee. I’ve got my costume all ready to go this year- I’m being Dana Scully from the XFiles. I have a wig and her “FBI badge”. Since my husband got to “couples…

Turkey Talk Blog Hop

The holidays are quickly approaching, and I can’t stop thinking to myself: “Where has the school year gone?!” It’s seriously FLYING by. A group of my blogging friends and I got together and decided we wanted to help our fellow SLPs celebrate Thanksgiving the best way we know how: by saying THANK YOU with a…