Category Archives: A Day in the Life of This SLP



This Center’s “First Family”

This Center’s “First Family” 

Original Post: June 1st (2015): This year, on May 31st, day 31 of Better Speech & Hearing Month 2015, I dedicated my Facebook post to this Center’s “First Family”.

Where do I begin? For me, the only place is on April 16, 1994 when I met a family on a quiet Saturday morning at my newly opened Children’s Communication Center.

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A Day in the Life of This SLP: Heartfelt

To say this special friend stole my heart the first time we locked eyes is a fact. His big brown eyes focused intently as he squished his face up close to mine and our noses touched. At that moment, we communicated through our eyes. It is true that our eyes are the windows to our souls and on that day, ours bonded.

Well, and I had a toy bus that he wanted to speed around the house! 

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A Day in the Life of This SLP: Memorable

 

It is impossible to go a day without recalling a memorable moment of one or more of the children & families who I have met and worked with since founding the Children’s Communication Center in Tallahassee during 1993. 

This is one such story…

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A Day in the Life of This SLP: Reflective

This morning a Facebook memory appeared as I scrolled through my news feed.

It was a post from 2013 in which I was tagged by a friend.

At the time, I was working with her 18 month old who was not yet talking. 

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A Day in the Life of This SLP: Appreciative

Communication

It can be said that I have dedicated my professional life as a Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) to my friends who are challenged by understanding others and expressing themselves effectively or efficiently.

That is a simplification, but easily understood by those outside of the field of Speech-Language Pathology. 

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