If you are an SLP who works with patients with memory challenges, you know that one of our responsibilities is to help them with their EMAs--- external memory aids. We review the purpose/benefits of EMAs and the wide range of types of EMAs. We also ...

“But What If My Patient Has Poor Insight?”   It isn’t uncommon for individuals with neurological changes to have reduced insight into their deficits. By this, I mean 1.) trouble identifying their weaker areas, 2.) not being able to tell when th...

It’s easy to think a patient is not making progress because they haven't reached our beloved "80% accuracy" therapy goal. However, I encourage you not to sabotage the patient's treatment plan nor underestimate the qualitative gains...

In my 10+ years of experience as an SLP, I’ve seen a lot of therapy goals. I’ve supervised students, worked with other SLPs, and even had SLPs send goals my way for feedback. There are three common mistakes I often see SLPs make when writing goa...

By now you may know that I’m an affiliate for Medbridge Education. But what you may NOT know is that even before becoming an affiliate, I used MedBridge's online CEU collection to learn a lot more about my clinical interests. CEUs are one of th...

"But what exactly is TTS?" I've gotten this question several times from Instagram followers after posting Instagram stories about TTS has helped some of my patients get back to hobbies such as reading But how many people really understa...

7 Things Every SLP Should Know About “Long COVID” No one was prepared for the immense impact the COVID-19 pandemic had on our world. The entire healthcare system and society as a whole are STILL systemically recovering from it. Furthermore, many peo...

Years ago I read the book "5 Love Languages" by Gary Chapman. The concept that there are different ways to EXPRESS love (also known as compassion) was very intriguing to me. The concept was so intriguing that I started thinking about the dif...

Did you know that more than one thing can be true at a time, even when those things seem to contradict each other? This concept is called dialectical thinking. Dialectical thinking is "the ability to view issues from multiple perspectives and to arri...

Patient reported outcome measures (also known as “PROMs”), are tools used to capture patient’s experiences (before, during, after treatment). They can help describe what is happening or how the patient is being impacted according to them. As a S...

Decades ago, it was “common” to see SLPs pull out workbooks for therapy sessions---particularly for cognitive communication therapy. We now know that was wrong. The research in our field over the past 30 years has proven that using generic workbooks...

Latinxs are one of the fastest growing demographics of people in the United States. As this diverse population grows, the gap in disparities in healthcare continues to widen almost as quickly. The Latinx community was impacted by COVID-19 at higher r...

A couple of questions...... What do you see when you look at a smart device like the Amazon Echo Dot?  Do you see a device to just play music?  A device to just wake you up in the morning?  A device to just tell you the date and time?  If you foll...

The year is halfway over (*insert gasp) which means it's time to be thinking about how many more CEUs you need before 2022 comes to a close.  I have partnered with Medbridge Education this year and I must say that I have been extremely pleased ...

Speech Language Pathology…. What is it, REALLY? 50-70% of the time when someone asks me what I do for a living, my reply is met with a blank stare. For many years, Speech Language Pathology hasn’t been a well-known field, particularly in the Black c...