May is Better Hearing and Speech Month! This annual event, sponsored by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, is designed “to raise awareness about communication disorders and the role of ASHA members in providing life-altering treatment.” This year’s theme, Building Connections, has us thinking about all of the different ways we here at Hello are involved in… (read more)
When a statewide call went out here in Oregon to build a committee on telepractice, organizers may have dreamt of a group of clinicians representing a variety of patients and practice settings. No one imagined that so few people would cover the lifespan so completely! Around the virtual table of our Telepractice Advisory Committee sit… (read more)
Did you know May is Better Hearing and Speech Month? For a clinic that works in the speech and occupational therapy domain, it’s the perfect follow up to April’s OT month. Although not quite as catchy and accessible for kids as Joke Month. Since I am not a speech-language pathologist, I feel like a bit… (read more)
People have lots of preconceived ideas about what it’s like to be an SLP contractor in the schools. You can get a pretty good idea about what those ideas are if you listen to what they say when you tell them that’s what you do . . . Don’t you get tired of bouncing around?… (read more)
It’s Better Hearing and Speech Month! As professionals in the speech and hearing sciences, we’re tasked each May with bringing awareness to communication disorders and the work we do to remediate them. It’s a big job, and thankfully there are thousands of us out there spreading the good word about what we do and why… (read more)
Better Hearing and Speech Month (BHSM) is the time of year when speech-language pathologists and audiologists get to take center stage and bask in the glow while we shine a light on the many incredible things that these professionals do every.single.day. all.year.long. every.year. To a layperson such as myself, the idea of a stage lends… (read more)