Conversations in Speech Pathology

He's a presenter, app developer, blogger, and yes- a male speech pathologist! He's Erik Raj, uber speechie! Join us as we talk about Erik's recent doctoral dissertation, some of his favorite apps, youtube, and a children's show he is developing!

Show notes:

Eriks's personal site: http://www.erikraj.com

Jeremy Legaspi's (AKA, "The Speech Guy") website (good app recommendations, especially for teaching core vocabulary- this is where I discovered the Toca Boca apps): http://the-speechguy.com

Apps we talked about on the show:

Animal Face

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/animal-face-ig-photo-editor/id686038386?mt=8

Super Power FX:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/super-power-fx-be-a-superhero!/id842266876?mt=8

Multiple Choice Articulation

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/multiple-choice-articulation/id580129419?mt=8

FxGuru:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fxguru-movie-fx-director/id553674737?mt=8

WordToob:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wordtoob-language-learning/id651639627?mt=8

Toca Boca: (any of these are good, but I especially like the hair salon)

http://tocaboca.com/app/toca-hair-salon-2/

Here's a link to the website regarding the documentary Erik referred to. It's called: I Am Santa Claus (directed by Erik's friend, Tommy Avallone).

Music credit: The Jazz Piano, Courtesy of www.bensound.com

 

Jane Farrall is an AAC consultant with a specialization in AAC & literacy. Today, she talks with me about AGOSCI 2015, where she was both a presenter and attendee. Of course, I also throw out some related and occasionally random questions on my mind these days. Enjoy!

Links:

www.janefarrall.com

http://agosci.org.au

Credits:

Jazzy Frenchy music clip courtesy of bensound.com

Today I speak with Julie Tracy, a mother of an adult son with high functioning autism. Julie talks about the foundation her family recently started: The Julie + Michael Tracy Family Foundation. It's aim is to provide residential, social, vocational, and mental health supports to young adults with Autism. I read about Julie's work last year in a local suburban paper and knew her story would be worth sharing here. It also doesn't hurt that Julie is a speech pathologist herself!

Links:

You can find the Tracy foundation's website here: jmtf.org

I also mentioned my new Facebook page. Here's the link:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Conversations-In-Speech-Pathology/752643058144503

You can also look for me on Twitter: @Jeff Stepen

Take care everyone!

-Jeff

Do you work in a school setting in the U.S.? Do you know about Donors Choose? Have you used it? Well, Tom Shull sure has! He's a speech pathologist from the Boston area who successfully funded over $15,000 in projects using the site. In today's episode, you'll learn how Tom became so successful with this crowdfunding platform. Tom also discusses his love of cued speech, his work with accent modification, and yes- Mel Gibson!

You can find Tom Shull here: http://soundpractice.org/about/

You can check out Tom's Donors Choose page here: http://www.donorschoose.org/mr.shull?rf=page-siteshare-2014-11-teacher_profile-teacher_1155963&active=true

Tom's previous webinar on Donors Choose can be found here: http://www.mghihp.edu/alumni/alumni-webinars/default.aspx

If you would like to learn more about cued speech, here is one resource you can check out: http://www.cuedspeech.org/index.php

Finally, please feel free to check out my Donors Choose page at: http://www.donorschoose.org/jeff.stepen?rf=page-siteshare-2014-11-teacher_profile-teacher_2477658&active=true

Happy Thanksgiving to those of you in the U.S.!

Today I talk to Paul Andres & Russell Cross from the Prentke Romich Company (PRC) about a new method for interpreting SGD (speech generating device) language samples. It's called "Realize Language". I just started using the service and I can no longer imagine looking at language samples without it!

You can check out the new Realize Language service at: https://realizelanguage.com/info/

Russell Cross can be reached at: [email protected]

Paul Andres can be reached at: [email protected]

As always, thanks for listening!

Jeff

Jessica Aubin is a speech pathologist from the Seattle area who works in her own private practice. She is also the founder of JOTx, an iPad app that streamlines the therapy note taking process. Join us as we talk about a wide range of subjects, including microphones, Ipad apps, and of course, JOTx.

Here are the links to the products (mostly apps and software) that we spoke about on the episode. I personally have not had the time to check them all out yet, so let me know what you think if you already use any of these. Thanks again for listening!

-Jeff

Apps:

The Voice Test: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/voice-test/id437811882?mt=8

Bla Bla Bla: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bla-bla-bla/id430815432?mt=8

Opera Vox Light: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/operavox-lite/id687756003?mt=8

My PlayHome Stores (referred to as My Playhouse on the program): https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/my-playhome-stores/id683942610?mt=8

Q-interactive: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/q-interactive/id543319804?mt=8

Software:

PRAAT: http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/

Office Ally: https://www.officeally.com

Microphone: http://www.apogeedigital.com/products/mic

 

 

 

 

 

Here’s the first in what I hope will be a number of episodes featuring discussions about products marketed to SLP’s. In today’s episode, you’ll hear about the SmartPalate system by CompleteSpeech. The SmartPalate system is a portable electropalatography instrument used to help clients with speech sound disorders. In this episode, I will talk about my own (limited) experiences with the system. You will also hear from Dan Smith, the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of CompleteSpeech as well as Cathy Runnels, a speech pathologist (and ASHA fellow) in private practice. Cathy uses the SmartPalate primarily with adults who are seeking to reduce their accents and improve overall speech intelligibility.

You can find more information about the SmartPalate system at: www.completespeech.com

Cathy Runnels can be reached at: aospeech.com.

 

In this episode, I talk to ASHA Fellow Dr. Gregory Lof of the MGH Institute of Health Professions about nonspeech oral motor exercises. My hope is that this episode addresses some of the concerns or questions you might have about this timely topic.

 

In this episode I speak with Michael Gladstein, an educational psychologist, about his innovative approach to written intervention known as SQWrite. You can visit Michael's website at www.sqwrite.com

Today I'm featuring a former professor of mine, Dr. Pat Van Slyke, who discusses the history of RtI (Response to Intervention) as well as how us SLP's fit into the picture.  Enjoy!

You can find Dr. Pat Van Slyke at: www.patvanslyke.com