What does the Hiring Committee look for when they read SLP Resumes?
As a practicing SLP, I've been able to sit in on hiring committees in both educational and outpatient settings. The one description I...
CCC-SLP Shadowing a CCC-SLP (Vol. 1): Schools
Expand Your S.C.O.P.E.™ seeks to change the ways in which speech-language pathologists (SLPs) go about their professional development. ...
No Pink Highlighter
In graduate school, I don't remember too many direct lessons on personal branding or the branding of our field. In fact, most SLPs I ask...
List of FREE CEUs for SLPs
Changing specialties can be expensive. CEU courses are necessary to expanding your scope of practice, but they can rack up a hefty price...
A Day in the Life of SLPs in Various Settings
While ideally all CCC-SLPs would have the means to shadow each other to get a feel for what day-to-day life is like for another CCC-SLP,...
How to Educate Colleagues about the SLP Scope of Practice through your Position on the Hiring Commit
It's no secret within the field that many people outside of the field have no idea what we do. SLPs have gotten used to explaining and...
Celebrities with Conditions in the SLP Scope of Practice
I'm sure I'm not the only SLP out there whose favorite pastime is keeping up on celebrity news. As a pop-culture loving SLP I'm...
Correcting People, Politely
SLPs have asked before, "what do you do when someone calls you 'speech teacher' or 'speech therapist?' It feels awkward to correct...
Selecting your SLP Facebook Groups
My first introduction to networking with other speech-language pathologists (SLPs) came in the early days of myspace when I started a...
SLPs, Secure Your Own Mask First
SLPs, we are often selfless to a fault. We think we're putting our kids and patients first and allowing that to work us to the point of...