Connect Attendees Share the New Ideas They Plan to Try

In the wake of ASHA Connect 2019’s wrap-up on Sunday, SLPs who attended are returning home, ready to implement a host of new strategies, from slowing down time to using the 3:1 workload model in schools to better gauging severity of speech sound disorders. Here are the new ideas just a few of them plan to try out across health care, private practice, and school settings. New insights: Valorie “Lorri” Andrews begins a new job as an SLP in the Sahuarita Unified School District outside Tucson, Arizona, on July 31. She attended ASHA Connect 2019 in preparation for her new position. “I’d like to get into classrooms more and work with the whole group, especially kindergartners, on phonemic awareness and phonological awareness… and trying to [take] a more proactive approach to try to keep kids from getting referred to special education.” This is Lauren Wallenius’ fourth time visiting Connect, which she calls her favorite conference. “I go to what some would consider the boring stuff, the coding and billing,” Wallenius says. “I like the interactive presentations [on coding and billing] because when you read it online, it’s kind of dry, but being able to be in the room with everybody and talk with the subject matter experts is a really great experience.” Andy Webb, a school-based SLP in Carpentersville, Illinois, is intrigued by the idea of using paint sample strips to show a range of intensity for vocabulary words. Is he going to try it?...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Tags: Health Care Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Professional Development Source Type: blogs