If You Dread Mondays, You Must Hate Your Job
Lauren DiBiase
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1y ago
I've read that quote SO many times.  On Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook.  I'm never quite sure what the point of it is.  Is it intended to make people feel guilty about not appreciating or enjoying their jobs? To convince people they should embark on a career change?  Remind people of just how miserable they must be from Monday-Friday? I think that quote is ridiculous. How ridiculous, you ask?  The speech girls and I have already created a construction paper chain, that is strung around our entire speech room, counting down to the last day of school.  For a ..read more
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Our Students Don't Stay With Us Forever
Lauren DiBiase
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1y ago
When I first started my clinical fellowship year, I had a student on my caseload who I’ll call S.  She had significant health impairments and was involved physically and mentally.  She used an assistive technology device as well as American Sign Language to communicate, however she had poor fine motor skills and her signs were approximations.  Everyone on her team was familiar with her approximations and understood her fully.  Oh, and how S loved her team.  She LOVED us, and we loved her.  She would climb down the bus steps, look up, and grin widely as her eyes m ..read more
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10 Ways to be a Professional and Awesome Student Observer
Lauren DiBiase
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1y ago
Every person striving to become an SLP will need to complete observation hours.  It is essential to be your best self on these observations, because you are representing your college and your speech-language pathology program.  Additionally, if you make a poor impression, it is not uncommon for the observation site to contact your school and request that future students not be invited back.  The SLP world is minuscule, and the connections you make on these observations may benefit you in your future career.  You want to be your best self!   Here is how:&nbs ..read more
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5 Activities for Teaching your Students about Emotions
Lauren DiBiase
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1y ago
The number of students coming to us in elementary school who have autism, emotional disturbances, or have been exposed to drugs in utero, continues to grow.  These populations have an unbelievably difficult time with social skills and emotion regulation as they become school-age.  One of the foundational necessities of these two skills is being able to identify emotions based on facial expression or body language and to understand what causes us to feel these different emotions. Last year I graciously accepted the role of guest blogger on HoJo's Teaching Adventure's blog, and today ..read more
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I Applied to 84 Jobs Before Landing My CFY
Lauren DiBiase
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1y ago
I keep seeing in facebook groups and on Instagram, people who are newly graduated from masters programs in speech-language pathology programs, discussing their fear of not having gotten a CFY yet.  I remember being that new graduate.  Although I was scheduled to graduate in the month of June, I started applying to job openings in February of that year.  I lived on Long Island, a notoriously difficult place to find an SLP job.  Being in the tri-state area, we are drowning in colleges that are offering masters programs in speech-language pathology to large classes of student ..read more
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If You Dread Mondays, You Must Hate Your Job
Lauren DiBiase
by
1y ago
I've read that quote SO many times.  On Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook.  I'm never quite sure what the point of it is.  Is it intended to make people feel guilty about not appreciating or enjoying their jobs? To convince people they should embark on a career change?  Remind people of just how miserable they must be from Monday-Friday? I think that quote is ridiculous. How ridiculous, you ask?  The speech girls and I have already created a construction paper chain, that is strung around our entire speech room, counting down to the last day of school.  For a ..read more
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10 Ways to be a Professional and Awesome Student Observer
Lauren DiBiase
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1y ago
Every person striving to become an SLP will need to complete observation hours.  It is essential to be your best self on these observations, because you are representing your college and your speech-language pathology program.  Additionally, if you make a poor impression, it is not uncommon for the observation site to contact your school and request that future students not be invited back.  The SLP world is minuscule, and the connections you make on these observations may benefit you in your future career.  You want to be your best self!   Here is how:&nbs ..read more
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10 Ways to Prepare for Parent-Teacher Night (Speech-Language Pathologist Style)
Lauren DiBiase
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1y ago
Parent-teacher night is on the horizon over at my school.  We always have one in the fall and then one again in the winter/spring.  It can be super nerve-wracking to have parents coming in and out of your office, so to try and make it a little less stressful for myself, I prepare in advance. Here is what I do... 1. Send home a reminder to the parents of when parent-teacher night is and where they can find you.  Include on the note an RSVP slip, so that you have a heads up of which parents are going to try to come.  Obviously this doesn't mean there won't be a few surpr ..read more
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You Should Never Work with Children
Lauren DiBiase
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1y ago
Once upon a time, at the end of my first year of grad school, a woman who was assigned to be my mentor told me "You should never work with children. You don't have the right personality."  It was during our last meeting of the year.  This meeting was supposed to be a final discussion about everything I had learned over the past year working with my mentor and the client I had shared with her.  That's right.  I had ONE student with her, and she felt that the hour a week we spent together with that child was enough for her to make that statement.  This meeting was suppos ..read more
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Our Students Don't Stay With Us Forever
Lauren DiBiase
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1y ago
When I first started my clinical fellowship year, I had a student on my caseload who I’ll call S.  She had significant health impairments and was involved physically and mentally.  She used an assistive technology device as well as American Sign Language to communicate, however she had poor fine motor skills and her signs were approximations.  Everyone on her team was familiar with her approximations and understood her fully.  Oh, and how S loved her team.  She LOVED us, and we loved her.  She would climb down the bus steps, look up, and grin widely as her eyes m ..read more
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