Imagine this: there is an epic battle going around you. You hear screams ‘aaaahhhh’ and soft, little whimpers as last breaths are drawn. Your opponent ever so slowly turns to face you and you know that this can go either of two ways. They quickly draw two cards and flip them over. It’s not looking good. “My kangaroo is going… View Post
I knew something was amiss when I walked into my new SLP room and literally found a table and chair in there. There is solidarity in having the worst first week of a job. Saturday: The fourteen and a half hour Sydney-Vancouver-Seattle flight was easy compared to the grilling I received trying to enter the United States. I don’t know… View Post
It’s your classic Mexican stand-off of the speech pathology kind. You want to look inside a kid’s mouth and get them to perform a couple of simple oral motor movements as part of your articulation assessment but it appears that they have come down with that elusive ‘spontaneous lockjaw’ syndrome. The more you probe “c’mon,open your mouth”, the tighter their… View Post
I realised that I couldn’t get in just as the taxi pulled away and left me stranded. My initial thoughts of ‘Wow! This is my new home!” quickly turned into a panicky stream of “How the hell am I supposed to get into my new home?” I was so travel weary by this stage that I just wanted to get… View Post
When I look at an app, I want flexibility. I want to be able to use it in more ways than just intended. I want it to form part of my toolkit and I want it to spark even more ideas. If you are already using Michelle Garcia Winner’s Social Thinking ® methodology, then the Social Detective Intermediate app combines… View Post