Speechie Side Up

In this episode, I gave an overview of the top six AAC applications and how to get access to them.

I discussed some features of Lamp Words for Life, Touch Chat HD, Tobii Dynabox Snap or TV Snap, Go Talk Now, Proloquo2Go, Cough Drop, and how to obtain trial devices.

In this episode, I am joined by Kimberly Tice, MS, CCC-SLP, as we discussed 10 different strategies or tips to get an entire team to use the child's device.

Kim provides intervention in language, learning, literacy and feeding to people with autism spectrum disorder as a speech-language pathologist and certified special educator.

She is an affiliate of ASHA Special Interest Groups 1, Language Learning and Education; and 12, Augmentative and Alternative Communication.

She is also my co-author in the “Lou Knows What to Do” book series.

Kim loves helping anyone find their voice and her love of words led her to write more. Now she helps businesses clearly define their brand voice through content and strategy and is passionate in finding creative content solutions for ads, social media, websites, SEO, and more.

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In this episode, I am joined by Kimberly Tice, MS, CCC-SLP. Kim provides intervention in language, learning, literacy and feeding to people with autism spectrum disorder as a speech-language pathologist and certified special educator.

She is an affiliate of ASHA Special Interest Groups 1, Language Learning and Education; and 12, Augmentative and Alternative Communication.

She is also my co-author in the “Lou Knows What to Do” book series.

Kim loves helping anyone find their voice and her love of words led her to write more. Now she helps businesses clearly define their brand voice through content and strategy and is passionate in finding creative content solutions for ads, social media, websites, SEO, and more.

In her spare time, she enjoys going on adventures with her children, running marathons, and taking long walks down the aisles of the Boynton Beach Target.

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This episode is all about creating value-based vision boards!

We'll cover 5 tips to make sure your vision board goals are attainable, realistic, and meaningful this year. 

In this episode, I am joined by Sydney  Bridenstine. Sydney founded Olive Branch Speech Therapy, LLC in 2015 as a solo practitioner, and she now leads a team of amazing speech-language pathologists. She grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee and has been practicing as a pediatric SLP in Nashville since 2009 in the public school and private therapy settings. 

Sydney earned her undergraduate degree in Communication Disorders from Auburn University and her Master of Arts in Speech-Language Pathology from the University of Memphis.

She enjoys exploring new cities and countries, devouring fiction, and chasing her three wild boys.

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In this episode, I am joined by Emma Lomax, a Speech-Language Pathologist and owner of Communication Kids. Emma graduated from Queen Margaret University with a Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology. She is registered with the College of Audiologists and Speech-Language Pathologists of Ontario (CASLPO) as well as with Speech-Language and Audiology Canada (SAC).

Emma has experience working with both children and adults in a variety of settings such as schools, client’s homes and hospitals.   Through these experiences, she developed a passion for working with children with a variety of speech and communication needs such as developing social communication skills, language development, motor speech and no-tech and lite-tech Alternative and Augmentative Communications (AAC) strategies and devices.

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In this episode, I am joined by Gabriella Garcia, a bilingual pediatric speech-language pathologist based in Miami, FL who is passionate about working with children of all ages and abilities. She is licensed in the state of Florida and holds her Certificate of Competence through the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA).

Gaby loves creating fun and meaningful opportunities to build and expand language with little ones learning to communicate with their siblings and family. She excels at working with school-aged children, recognizing their strengths, increasing this confidence and improving their communication skills, reading skills, and writing skills. Gaby works closely with parents and teachers to navigate the most effective ways to increase carryover and independence.

Gaby has spent the past decade working in a variety of pediatric settings to support children of all ages effectively communicate with their loved ones and better understand the world around them. She has extensive experience working closely with children and their families in their homes, pediatric hospital settings, private practice and a variety of school settings. Working in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team has provided additional knowledge in understanding child-development from a variety of lenses.

She integrates her passions of movement, communication, and play during individual treatment sessions and small-group programs to provide children and their families with high-quality, meaningful, and effective interventions.

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In this episode, I am joined by Barbara Coven-Ellis, an ASHA  certified speech-language pathologist who is dedicated to helping kids and their families find their way through medically complex and socially isolating feeding and communication challenges. 

Speech Pathology is a second career for Barbara, who spent over 30 years in the performing arts as an actress and singer before becoming an SLP. She works in rural Washington State and has experience working in both adult acute care and in a hospital based multidisciplinary pediatric outpatient clinic. 

She recently started her own private practice, Chasing Unicorns Pediatric Speech, Language, and Feeding as well as starting her doctoral studies at Northwestern University. Her next big goal is to establish a multidisciplinary pediatric clinic in her area that includes the ability to train new ST, PT and OT clinicians in the multidisciplinary care of medically complex children. 

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In this episode, I am joined by Marsha Pinto, a speech therapist that works for San Jose Unified School District in Northern California. She primarily works with autistic students, followed by selective mutism and apraxia. She has appeared multiple times on NBC news advising on pediatric speech development. She has also spoken at various conferences on the topic of introverted SLPs.

In this episode, I am joined by Rachel Zukose at the ASHA Convention.

Rachel Zukose, MA, CCC-SLP, TSSLD,  is an ASHA certified and New York State licensed Speech Language Pathologist in the Hudson Valley who assesses and treats a diverse range of communication disorders. 

Rachel has experience with assessment and treatment with both pediatric and adult patients within a variety of areas including: articulation, language, feeding, voice, fluency, cognitive communication, social communication, alternative and augmentative communication, as well as Childhood Apraxia of Speech. Rachel is PROMPT trained and LSVT certified and has a special interest in working with children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech and cognitive communication patients including: patients with Traumatic Brain Injury, Dementia, and Parkinson’s Disease. 

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