Part of my job is mentoring SLPs who are completing their Clinical Fellowship. I will be honest – these clinical fellows are light years beyond where I was when I graduated 22 (gulp!) years ago. Their clinical skills and professionalism amaze me. This past year, we all experienced speech/language services through a pandemic, but it… (read more)
It wouldn’t be June without our annual End-of-the-Year Party at the Kennedy School, and so party we did on Friday night! As a group of clinicians and support staff who work in different settings and at work sites spread across 5 different states, it is always delightfully fun to come together in a common space. We… (read more)
The Hello Foundation recently partnered with the SPOON Foundation to send Sandra Lucas, CF-SLP and Heidi Peters, MA, CCC-SLP to Nanjing, China. They served on a team of specialists delivering feeding and nutrition support to orphanage staff with the goal of preventing nutritional deficiencies that impede the development of children living in Child Welfare Centers,… (read more)
The Hello Foundation recently partnered with the SPOON Foundation to send Sandra Lucas, CF-SLP and Heidi Peters, MA, CCC-SLP to Nanjing, China. They served on a team of specialists delivering feeding and nutrition support to orphanage staff with the goal of preventing nutritional deficiencies that impede the development of children living in Child Welfare Centers,… (read more)
You have your Masters degree. And your clinical hours. Externships are complete. You’re ready to start your Clinical Fellowship, and be a “real” SLP! And that paycheck is nice too. But the first year can be kind of daunting, especially if you don’t have the support you need. I’ve been mentoring SLPs during their CF… (read more)
Well, there you go. Two of our SLPs have completed their clinical fellowships. We all know this is no small task. Jenna Geery and Rachel Allen ran artic groups, social skills groups, stuttering groups, and language groups; they developed AAC systems, aligned their services with the Common Core, tested a bunch of kids, consulted… (read more)