Present Notes:
On this episode of SLP Espresso Speak, Hallie’s protecting it actual with a heart-to-heart only for you—no remedy hacks, no visitor consultants, only a reminder that what you do issues. When you’ve ever felt like a goldfish in a foggy little bag, overwhelmed by paperwork and questioning if anybody even notices, this one’s for you. Hallie’s sharing what she needs somebody instructed her again in that windowless remedy closet—and why exhibiting up in your college students, even on the exhausting days, is greater than sufficient.
Here is what we discovered:
- Your work issues, even when it doesn’t really feel prefer it.
- Influence isn’t at all times measurable—nevertheless it’s nonetheless actual.
- Secure, trusting areas assist college students thrive.
- You’re doing extra than simply assembly targets—you’re altering lives.
- Remembering your “why” retains you grounded and motivated.
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00:00:00 Hallie: Hey there, SLP. I’ve a fast query for you. What if you happen to may have only one ebook in your shelf that truly will get the challenges of working with center college and highschool college students? Nicely, it is right here. Nicely, really, the preorder is right here, however, hey, I am so excited to let that my model new ebook, The Secondary SLP Information, is on the market for preorder. And once you preorder, you get an unique bonus that you simply will not need to miss.
00:00:30 Hallie: It’s filled with actual speak methods, fast suggestions, and inspiration that you should utilize together with your center college and highschool college students all 12 months lengthy. That is the proper ebook for a ebook membership, a grad scholar group, or simply flipping by means of once you’re caught and in a IEP writing spiral. So head to speechtimefun.com/preorder or head to my Instagram and ship me a DM with the phrase preorder, and I’ll ship you the hyperlink so you’ll be able to preorder now. And I can’t wait so that you can get your palms on this ebook in November, however the sooner you seize it, the higher the bonus.
00:01:17 Hallie: Welcome to SLP Espresso Speak, the podcast designed completely for speech language pathologists who work with older college students, grades 4 by means of 12. I’m your host, Hallie Sherman, your SLP behind Speech Time Enjoyable, the Speech Retreat Convention, and the SLP Elevate membership. And I am thrilled to carry you conversations, methods, and insights that gives you the jolt of inspiration that you simply want. Whether or not you are tuning in throughout your morning commute, on a break in between classes, and even throughout a nicely deserved leisure time, I’m right here for you each week. Let’s do that, SLPs.
00:01:57 Hallie: Hey. Hey, SLPs. Welcome again to a different episode of SLP Espresso Speak, the place we preserve it actual sensible and a bit of caffeinated as we sort out all issues speech remedy, particularly together with your older speech college students. And as we speak, I need to have a bit of coronary heart to coronary heart. No planning hacks. No remedy recreation concepts. No visitor audio system. Just a few actual speak, me and also you. As a result of I do know you in all probability are like me, and you have had a few of these days the place you assume, does this even matter? Am I even making a distinction? Would anybody even discover if as an alternative I simply grew to become a Starbucks barista? And, truthfully, free espresso and fewer paperwork? Tempting.
00:02:43 Hallie: However I need to remind you of one thing I want somebody had instructed me after I was sitting in a tiny windowless remedy room known as which actually was a closet, attempting to jot down tons of progress experiences, planning for my remedy classes, laminating all of the issues whereas concurrently attempting to plan 8 to 10 again to again remedy classes. That this work issues. You matter. And never simply because your caseload will depend on you, or since you’re holding the IEPs along with a metaphorical duct tape, however since you’re altering the lives in methods you won’t ever totally see.
00:03:29 Hallie: So we will speak concerning the goldfish. Think about for a sec that you are a goldfish in a tiny plastic bag. Simply go along with me for a sec. Bear in mind going to, like, carnivals as a child and also you need a goldfish and it got here in these luggage? Anyway, you are swimming round and doing all of your finest, however the water is murky, the house is crammed, and nobody is feeding you. That is how so many people SLPs can really feel. Floating alone, confined by not possible caseloads, weighed down by paperwork, and attempting to do Olympic degree work in a fishbowl meant for a carnival prize.
00:04:08 Hallie: However you? You are the SLP who pours into others even when your personal bag is foggy. You are serving to college students breathe simpler in a system that always makes them really feel like they do not match. And I do know it would not at all times really feel heroic. Generally it might probably really feel like pulling tooth to get your college students to simply seize a pencil and do one thing apart from complain about coming to speech. And generally it is writing scholar participated with reasonable assist. And guess what? Generally there’s that second.
00:04:47 Hallie: Here is a second that I am going to always remember. Certainly one of my college students, he did not do nice at school. He is usually a behavioral downside generally. However he one time stated to me, I do not like studying in my class, however I like studying right here. And it could made me take a step again for a second and say, he won’t be making the leaps and bounds that I want to see on the subject of his targets. However are there another issues that I’m doing to make a distinction on this scholar’s life?
00:05:22 Hallie: I make him really feel protected when he involves my speech room. He enjoys studying. He is desperate to take part. He is the primary one to boost his hand and showcase what he is aware of and understands. I am constructing his confidence each day when he walks into my remedy room. And that is why we do what we do. Generally we simply assist our college students discover their confidence. Generally we present our college students that they’re succesful, that studying might be enjoyable. They’ve one individual of their constructing that they will know that they will flip to in the event that they’re scuffling with one thing. And that is all that issues.
00:06:00 Hallie: We assist our college students discover their voice. And generally actually, like, we are able to actually simply be a change for them that they want. So it won’t be drastic variations in speech targets and information. That is okay. We’re not only a service supplier. Look. The system would not at all times deal with us like professionals. We get shoved into closets or pressured to work in hallways, forgotten about on instructor appreciation week, all of the issues. We get schedules – nicely, if you happen to’re… we do not get schedules. We get caseloads that do not make sense. Grasp schedules the place we’re pressured to attempt to discover, , pull college students prefer it’s like a Sudoku recreation. And generally we’re instructed simply do your finest on the subject of a massively giant caseload, tons of paperwork that every other occupation would say, yeah. Proper.
00:06:56 Hallie: However what? You continue to present up. You discover supplies in your lunch break. You rejoice your college students even once you’re exhausted. You advocate for companies even when your administration provides you that look. You already know the look. Whenever you say, they should be… do not should be pulled anymore. Or, they want speech. What do you imply they communicate wonderful? Or, it might probably go both course. And that is why I do what I do.
00:07:24 Hallie: Certain. I really like making remedy simpler. I really like supplying you with done-for-you sources and enjoyable methods to instructing inferencing with out shedding your thoughts. My larger purpose, my larger why, is I would like you to like your job once more. I would like you to stroll into work understanding that you’re making a distinction each day. I would like you to really feel assured sufficient to say, I’ve acquired this, even when the system makes it exhausting. As a result of once you really feel good, once you’re not drowning in stress and are reinventing the wheel, your college students really feel it too.
00:08:03 Hallie: They get a calmer, extra current, extra impressed SLP. Discover I did not say speech instructor. They get somebody who says and who somebody who stays on this subject as an alternative of burning out. They get somebody who fashions communication and compassion. And the ripple impact, oh my goodness. It is enormous. For each one SLP that I assist, that is 50 to 100 college students who’re getting higher remedy, getting a greater SLP, getting a greater likelihood at loving going to high school, loving to study, and loving to speak. That is 100 children studying to advocate, specific, regulate, and join.
00:08:47 Hallie: Okay. So here is your closing reminder for the day earlier than you head into work or no matter you are doing proper now. Even when nobody else says this to you, even when your remedy room is a closet, even when the paperwork pile is attempting to eat you alive. You make a distinction. Your work issues. You might be precisely the SLP your college students want. So take a deep breath, sip that espresso, and bear in mind, you aren’t alone on this, and also you’re doing a heck of a job.
00:09:25 Hallie: And I’m at all times right here to remind you that if you happen to ever want that reminder, ship me a DM on Instagram. Ship me an e-mail. When you’re an SLP Elevate member, submit within the Fb group if you happen to ever want that reminder. Bear in mind your why. I instructed you mine that I really like understanding that I might be that one individual in my college students’ day that makes them really feel assured, safe, that they know I’ve compassion for them. I am listening after they’re speaking.
00:09:54 Hallie: Sure. I have to showcase that progress on their IEP targets. However I am by no means going to get that if they do not belief me, if they do not really feel protected with me. And that’s my why. And that’s the reason I really like working within the faculties. That is why I really like working with the older college students. And that is why I really like what I am doing right here as we speak, which is inspiring you to recollect each day to go in and bear in mind your why. Love what you do. See the affect. See how particular you’re and the way fortunate your college students are to have you ever.
00:10:28 Hallie: Alright. So if this episode gave you a bit of enhance, ship it to an SLP pal who wants that reminder too. And at all times bear in mind, if you happen to ever want extra assist, extra supplies, methods, the entire shebang, be part of us inside SLP Elevate. That is the place the true magic occurs. You possibly can head to slpelevate.com to study extra. Hyperlink shall be within the present notes, or, additionally, you’ll be able to ship me a DM with the phrase membership to study extra on Instagram. Okay?
00:10:58 Hallie: Alright. I at all times finish my episodes with a joke. And I do know this can be a little deep of an episode, so we will simply finish it with some humor. The place do boats go when they’re sick? To the dock. Till subsequent week, everybody. Keep out of hassle. Love you guys.
00:11:25 Hallie: Thanks a lot for tuning in to a different episode of SLP Espresso Speak. It means the world to me that you simply’re tuning in each week and getting the jolt of inspiration you want. Yow will discover the entire hyperlinks and knowledge talked about on this episode at my web site, speechtimefun.com. Remember to comply with the present so you do not miss any future episodes. And when you’re there, it might imply the world to me if you happen to would take a couple of seconds and depart me an trustworthy overview. See you subsequent week with one other episode filled with enjoyable and inspiration from one SLP to a different. Have enjoyable, guys.
00:12:06 Hallie: Hey there, SLP. I’ve a fast query for you. What if you happen to may have only one ebook in your shelf that truly will get the challenges of working with center college and highschool college students? Nicely, it is right here. Nicely, really, the preorder is right here, however, hey, I am so excited to let that my model new ebook, The Secondary SLP Information, is on the market for preorder. And once you preorder, you get an unique bonus that you simply will not need to miss.
00:12:37 Hallie: It’s filled with actual speak methods, fast suggestions, and inspiration that you should utilize together with your center college and highschool college students or all 12 months lengthy. That is the proper ebook for a ebook membership, a grad scholar group, or simply flipping by means of once you’re caught and in a IEP writing spiral. So head to speechtimefun.com/preorder or head to my Instagram and ship me a DM with the phrase preorder, and I’ll ship you the hyperlink so you’ll be able to preorder now. And I can’t wait so that you can get your palms on this ebook in November, however the sooner you seize it, the higher the bonus.
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