Category: Being an SLP-Roll Up Your Sleeves
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Centering Consumers in ABA and Why Graduations Send the Wrong Message
For some, the accomplishment of discharge achieved is true.This looks like a transition plan written AND implemented with successive markers and with communicated success. This is intended to support the success of the person and family as direct services are reduced. It is generalization and maintainence. This is data driven and happens over a period…
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The House Is Burning
Why Advocacy Needs To Change For Things to Change Imagine a fire. Imagine a crowd of people pontificating and talking about the fire while the house is burning. There is another crowd of people waiting for the fire to finish so that they can sell the land and build another house…hopefully it won’t burn again.…
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The Problem With Mentorship
How One Word Won’t Fix the world of Autism Behavioral Health ” I can do it” he said. Of course, he could DO it, but the struggle, in this case, was unnecessary as he applied right-handed skills to his left-handed world. As his mentor in the kitchen, I was inspired by his excitement and…
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Conferencing Like a Motha
Building a Place for People and Their Parts Full disclosure, I write this from the perspective of a mother who enjoys working from home. My office door is more open than closed. I have almost mastered doing more in four hours than most do in eight. I have also realized that working during untraditional hours…
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Papercuts.
What Planned Ignoring Does and Why We Shouldn’t Get Comfortable With It It hurts my feelings to be ignored. She said it. In her full five year old boldness. And I understood it. I quickly got it. It gave me pause and moved me to think about how ignoring (planned or unplanned) is dismissive of…
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For The Sake of Human Dignity
Cultivating Care Within Problem Behavior While Serving People For the last few months, my family has had to make some really tough medical decisions with and for a beloved family member. Like many people, we are faced with caring for ourselves, our children, and loved ones at different points in their lives. It’s made me…
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Save Yourself
Burnout, Implosion, and Learning to Breathe (again and deeply) as a Clinician There are two moments in my life where I could place a finger on burnout. The first time, I was an undergraduate. And I called my mother wondering if I should complete college. I was tired …my insides were tired. Looking back, I…
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Unpacking Pain, Protests, and Providing Service
What’s A Therapist To Do When The World Is Amuck and YOU Still Need To Provide A Service? Years ago, I had an experience when my bad day turned into a bad week. I was in such a state of emotional pain and angst. I could not see anything beyond my well warranted emotions. While…
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Reprioritizing Your Priorities as a Clinical Leader
For women…women clinical leaders who do too much…who are racing to do the next…who hold up the banner of collaboration not competition but feel race to show up…the women who demonstrate the need to prove their presence in the ever changing populous of ABA and other clinical leaders….I will impart to you the best advise…
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The Professional Divide in Telehealth
The lack of reaching across the aisle and acknowledging that the knowledge being sought was already, and has been present for some time. It was (is) in a different group.
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