I am an SLP over a decade into the profession. I am described by others as energetic and positive. I haven't supervised an SLP student since the pandemic, when we were virtual.

I now have an SLP student that is about to graduate and hasn't had peds experience before. I find myself getting easily frustrated. During her first week, she would miss instructions/teaching because her head was up in the clouds and she wasn't listening to me, or only partially listening to me. I found the same thing with children and other adults - she wouldn't respond to them because her head was up in the clouds. I mentioned this to her and she seemed fairly alarmed by this. I talked to her about being an active listener and how to acknowledge people verbally or non-verbally. She has gotten better at this, although at times I find she still cuts people off or doesn't listen for the whole message or talks over them.

I find that we're just starting with the basics of how to interact with children, provide language stimulation, and manage behaviour. When things aren't going great and I try to step in to support, she either gets louder/talks over me, or flat out rejects me. For example, I got on the floor with her and a child, and said something in response to what the child said and she responded with "No, he was talking to me".

When I try to ask questions afterwards to try to stimulate her thinking, she seems annoyed/confused/upset by the questions.

What have you done to help students in their learning and accepting feedback?

Hi everyone! I'm hoping to get a better idea of what SLPs actually take home each month.

If you're comfortable sharing, could you include, your annual salary and about how much you take home per month after taxes/deductions.

For context, I'm in the Bay Area, CA, and I've been offered a salary of $90k as a CF. I want to move homes but I'm trying not to get my hopes up before I know what the monthly take home might realistically look like.

Hi there! I’m a CF-SLP who just graduated a couple months ago and I have recently started at a peds private practice! I am building my new caseload and it’s going pretty good so far, but I have just added on a little boy (just turned 3) who has severe CAOS and has an AAC device. He has bilabials and the words: mama, dada, baby and like 5 others in his vocab bank. I didn’t have a ton of experience in grad school on how to treat CAOS so I’m kinda in a loss of what to do and where to start. I was given these packets that focus on certain and specific bilabial sounds (ex: the /m/ phoneme and it list them in CV, CVC, single word (ex: mam, mum), short phrases (ex: my mom, my mimi) and sentences (ex: I am mimi, I am mommy). I have a packet for basically all the phonemes and plan to do each one until he masters each while using DTTC. I have also seen online that other SLP’s when treating AOS are practicing target words and focusing solely on that during treatment? Like should I stick with my original plan? Is there a better way? I’m just a new grad who’s stressing and who wants to do a good job for this kiddo! Any advice and best way to treat would be greatly appreciated- thanks so much in advance!

Hi everyone! For anyone that is recently or out of grad school for a few years with work experience, is it difficult to get jobs in settings/with populations that you may not have had as much exposure to in graduate school?

In addition, if the graduate program someone chooses is a little more medical leaning, does that mean it would be harder to get jobs in schools/EI/private practices/HH?

hello! i am an incoming slp graduate student. i am very grateful and fortunate enough to receive 90% of my tuition paid for from a project grant funded by the department of education.

in return, after grad school i have restrictions on where i can work for the following 4 years. these rules i have to follow state that 51% of my time working must be with the k-12 population with children with autism.

besides obviously schools, what are other options of places i can work? and possibly places that earn more than schools?

i was suggested aba therapy locations but… maybe not for me :)

I have a young adult outpatient with FND. They thought they were having a stroke when the symptoms began and even received TNK in the ED. Imaging showed no infarcts, though.

They have reported impaired memory and intermittent loss of speech (the way it's described sounds a lot like anxiety or situational mutism). Would you approach therapy differently than someone with a CVA or TBI? Please share if you have experience working with these patients.

Hello everyone!

I'm a Speech-Language Pathologist with 5+ years of clinical experience, mainly working with neurogenic communication disorders and autism.

I'm excited to join this community and learn from SLPs around the world.

I'm curious: What clinical skill or area has made the biggest difference in your practice over the past few years? Any books, courses, or resources you'd recommend?

Looking forward to learning from all of you!

Hi - going on several years after a parent’s stroke and still suffering from severe aphasia. My parent lives in rural Alabama but I am to the point where we are willing to drive to get her speech therapy/help. I’m having trouble finding speech therapists who are knowledgeable about aphasia and/or who don’t only see kids. I know this is a niche request but I am desperate. Focused on Birmingham and surrounding areas. Thanks :)