Category: Being an SLP-Roll Up Your Sleeves
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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 I’ve ever been given.
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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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Do What You Can!
Whew Girl! It’s been quite a ride over here in these parts. And lovely at the same time. Is it Charles Dickens who wrote ‘It was the best of times and the worst of times’. I probably edge toward the middle most days. I appreciate homeschooling and remember a time that I committed to this […]
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When People Sigh…
*MALADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR IS CONTAGIOUS. AMYGDALA CONTROL NEEDED* Have you ever sighed at work? Have you ever walked into someone’s office and sighed? I have experienced both. When we sigh, it is usually a sign of being overwhelmed, overcapacity, frustrated, and perhaps annoyed. Two weeks ago, I sat across from a staff person when things were […]
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Inside – Outside. Managing Your ABA Practice and Staff in an Instagram World
What if, as a boss, your client is your staff member? Then would the concepts of behavior shaping, instructional control, consequence and antecedent interventions, motivating operants apply? If your answer is Yes, keep reading. Managing. Management. These are real words with real meaning that require real time and responsibility. In an age of memes of […]
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