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Today, on the All About Audiology Podcast, Dr. Saperstein speaks with Meera Deters, who is a Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) from Texas. Throughout her career she has worked in multiple setting including a cancer hospital, a skilled nursing facility, and an in and outpatient rehab for people with brain injuries and strokes. She also has worked with individuals of different ages. Currently, she works with patients at their own homes through her  own practice, which is called Super Speech Solutions

This week on the All About Audiology podcast:  

* 3:30 – Shadowing a trained professional, within a field of interest, can give you an inside look into the field and allow you to decide if such a field might be suitable for you.

* 7:00 – Students, within the SLP field, who are unsure what they want to specialize in can figure out their exact path as time goes on. One does not even have to technically specialize in anything and can be a generalist.

* 10:00 – For younger clients, in-person therapy is preferred due to the heavy focus on play-based therapy. Although in-person therapy is mainly preferred, Zoom may be a better fit for older children and adults.

* 12:00 – Children with Autism can benefit from working with a SLP on skills such as  receptive language, pragmatics, social language, social skills and non-verbal cues.

* 15:00 – It is important to keep the parents of a younger client in the loop to help them understand what the therapist and their child is working on

* 17:00 – Working on accent modification, or accent reduction, skills allows one to work on their speech and language use with a goal of allowing one to be more intelligible to others

* 23:00 – Working with patients of all ages can make you more marketable as a professional 

For more resources and research visit:

All About Audiology Website 

All About Audiology Facebook group  

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And the Prodana pay-it-forward platform here: https://prodana.org/practioner/lilach-saperstein/audiology-counseling–dr–lilach-saperstein

(Guest Links)

https://superspeechsolutions.com/

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Email Meera at: [email protected]

Related Episodes

* All About Collaborating with Speech Language Pathologists – Episode 74- with Dr. Leah Beekman*