Millennials and Future SLPs

The 2009 ASHA Board of Directors and  Lemke and Dublinske prepared a document - Designing ASHA’s Future: Trends for the Association and the Professions - for the SLP profession. One of the future "trends" I was most interested in related to Generation Y, or the Millennial generation (born between 1982 and 2002). In 2011, ASHA surveyed the professions’ impression…

What are my chances of getting into SLP grad school? Part 2

In 2012, I wrote "What are my chances of getting into grad school for SLP?". It's my most read post I've ever published. I know exactly why, too. People want to know if investing in a career as a Speech-Language Pathologist is easy or difficult and worth the investment. In 2013, a joint publication by…

A Must-Buy book for New SLPs

There hasn't been a week during this first year as an SLP that I haven't turned to pages in this book with an unmistakable urge to hunt down the authors and hug them forever. Secord, W. A., Boyce, S. E., Donahue, J. S., Fox, R. A., & Shine, R. E. (2007). Eliciting sounds: Techniques and…

SLP Clinical Fellowship – Honestly

4 years of an undergraduate degree followed by 2 years getting a Master's degree, all you really think about is that first payday when you start your Clinical Fellowship. Something about being paid for the work you are doing - it rights the soul. All those sleepless nights studying, worrying, writing, reading - ugh! If…

Which SLP university should I pick? – At least consider the debt

I've had a few moments lately where I started thinking about what I was thinking, and how I came to think that way. It has little to do with the school's name on my diploma or how much it cost me. It has everything to do with the supervisors and professors who taught me there.…

Streamlining SLP Grad School Applications

This isn't a post with answers. This is a post with questions. Questions to add to the already mounting questions other SLP Graduate school hopefuls have after filling out an avalanche of applications. People applying to SLP Graduate Programs across the country have to do the following, in general: Locate an accredited university with a…

A follow up to “Craft a Stand-Out Application”

In the January 2014 publication of the ASHA Leader, there was  a post entitled "Student's Say: Craft a Stand-Out Application" As far as my Google search of "ASHA + SLP grad school applications" took me, this is one of the first of it's kind for ASHA. I've been blogging about these same issues for over…

Searching for an SLP-CF position: Start Now!

Ready. Set. Search!! Are you graduating in 2014 with your Master's degree in Speech-Language Pathology or Communication Sciences and Disorders? Yes? Well get cracking on the job hunt. It's not too early. Searching for a CF position is like Christmas Eve for SLP grad students. At least, it was for me. So, I'm going to…

SLP Clinical Fellowship – Qualities of a Mentor

You guys....today marks two quarters of my first year as a Speech-Language Pathologist. That's pretty much half way.  10 blog posts ago I was complaining about tests and exams. Now, I'm complaining about too many progress notes and not enough hours in the day.  Nothing quite like it - and I love it. I was…

Clinical Competency for Soon-to-Be SLPs

Hot off the presses from the International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders. I want to share my thoughts on a recent article entitled Impact of placement type on the development of clinical competency in speech-language pathology students.  The thing I enjoyed most about this article was how they described their "aim". In summary, they wanted to see…