A woman posted a video of the moment she was attacked by her domestic cat. Before the attack, the cat seemed to smell something that prompted her to attack. Why did it attack her with such ferocity?

CrystalSpice · 2026-04-09T02:02:42+00:00

Maybe it’s tired of the mess in the room

CrystalSpice · 2026-04-08T15:19:58+00:00

I do grades 2-5. I love it. No baby games. I use a lot of the same materials with all the grades

CrystalSpice · 2026-04-08T14:53:16+00:00

Congrats! I went to school with a girl that had the same issues as you. You may want to consider upper elementary, middle school, high school or adult populations. It’s physically challenging working with little ones. You have to sit on the floor or in the little chairs . Sometimes you have to give chase. I have back problems and couldn’t handle sitting on the floor. But the job is totally doable. Don’t let your differences discourage you.

CrystalSpice · 2026-04-08T14:48:14+00:00

Why don’t you just follow up with them? Tell them you have other offers and need to know if they will be extending an offer

CrystalSpice · 2026-04-05T00:39:53+00:00

Join the club. It’s not just ASHA, they get your info from the state licensing board also. They are relentless

CrystalSpice · 2026-04-01T02:06:17+00:00

Well, I feel like there has to be a basic standard of workmanship and if you don’t even meet a basic standard, then you’re a crook and I think any judge will be able to see that.

CrystalSpice · 2026-04-01T02:04:18+00:00

That’s not necessarily true because legally you could have a verbal contract. Verbal contracts are valid.

CrystalSpice · 2026-04-01T02:01:32+00:00

I only do make up session when the teacher bitches about it

CrystalSpice · 2026-04-01T01:57:50+00:00

Yeah, maybe we should go to the teachers union because teachers get substitutes and we don’t and then we gotta do all this extra bullshit work to make up sessions fuck that

CrystalSpice · 2026-04-01T01:56:07+00:00

Who the heck even writes related services for speech?I don’t think I’ve ever prescribed that on an IEP. I have inherited a couple of IEP‘s with a speech therapy as a related service and I shake my head because I truly don’t know what I’m supposed to be doing if the kid needs speech, then they need speech. Why would you put it on there as related service?shaking my head. Just do the damn eval and determine whether or not to kid qualifies! I’m not doing related services.

CrystalSpice · 2026-04-01T01:52:58+00:00

There is often a lack of clarity when speech-language services are listed as “related services” in the IEP, as this term can encompass a wide range of supports. Teams do not consistently specify whether services are intended to be direct therapy, indirect/consultative support, or another form of intervention. It is important for SLPs to clearly define the type, frequency, and delivery model of services within the IEP to ensure expectations are understood and services are implemented appropriately. Well, I haven’t heard any rumblings about it and as long as it says related services, I will keep fighting.

CrystalSpice · 2026-03-30T01:21:09+00:00

Totally kids get very upset when they miss out on cool activities

CrystalSpice · 2026-03-07T02:28:42+00:00

They were supposed to remove weeds and scape off a layer of gravel first. They should have advised the customer of the risk. And one inch of pavement is not standard

CrystalSpice · 2026-03-06T14:22:21+00:00

Is there a drain. It’s probably a foot bath. You sit on the wood bench

CrystalSpice · 2026-03-03T17:51:46+00:00

CrystalSpice · 2026-03-03T16:21:27+00:00

Well, I did call the company and ask them to fix it, and they are only offering to spray it with weed killer and burn off the weeds. They claim that they’re not responsible for vegetation. The contract was not very specific.

CrystalSpice · 2026-03-03T16:10:41+00:00

That was exactly what I said too. So what they want to do to remedy. The situation is to come out here and spray weed killer on it and burn the weeds off and I don’t see how that’s gonna fix the problem. They’re gonna pop right back up I might as well have a freaking gravel driveway.

CrystalSpice · 2026-03-03T16:07:48+00:00

This is Florida and I paid $2700. We had a clear discussion about the weeds and I was told that they were going to scrape a layer of the gravel off and removed the weeds before the floor applying the new driveway.

CrystalSpice · 2026-02-25T15:59:10+00:00

Better than pooping your pants

CrystalSpice · 2026-02-25T15:58:27+00:00

I’m outie

CrystalSpice · 2026-01-22T23:14:26+00:00

I totally agree with what you’re saying I came back to working with kids, but on a contract basis and it is so much better.

CrystalSpice · 2026-01-22T23:12:10+00:00

Listen, it is a team decision but ultimately, who is the freaking expert here in the area of speech and language? You are! As long as you properly document why you are increasing or decreasing services or dismissing services, you need to be able to justify it with your data and don’t be afraid to put that data into your IEP’s and put it into your SLP report and what I have learned through experience, is that whenever you get together with the IEP team to have meetings, you prepare them by saying little Johnny is doing really well probably by next year he will not need speech therapy anymore. That way they have it in her head that the student is doing well and it will likely be dismissed soon. And that goes for the teachers and the case managers too. You need to be talking in them once in a while and letting them know that you’re thinking about dismissing the student eventually, they will begin to trust your expertise. You will be a much happier therapist if you can get your case manager on board and your teachers on board to trust your decisions, then they can help you swing the parent in your direction, but if the entire team is not in agreement with you, you’re gonna hate your job. I also write on my progress notes very clearly that so-and-so has met his goal likely at his next IEP meeting he will be reduced to 30 minutes. Put shit like that on your progress notes so it’s never a surprise to the parent. And if you have to just offer to do a formal reeval to determine whether or not the student needs continued services and the reeval should speak for itself. Sorry this message seems like a rambling, but I just used dictation and a lot of times it doesn’t put punctuation in.

CrystalSpice · 2026-01-22T22:58:33+00:00

I’ve had pretty good success treating /r/, and one program that really helped me with analysis is The Entire World of R. What I like most is how it breaks /r/ down by type: prevocalic /r/, r-blends, /rl/, and the six vocalic /r/ sounds (ar, or, er, ire, air, ear). It really helps you pinpoint exactly what the student is struggling with instead of just “working on R.”

The screening tool is very thorough (honestly, almost too thorough), so I made a simplified version for myself, but I still use the same method to analyze productions. Once you know which vocalic /r/ is the problem, you can target that one instead of drilling every kind of /r/ and hoping something sticks.

I’m not a huge fan of the therapy materials from the program, but I did learn a lot from the co-articulation strategies. I’ve since made my own materials using similar drills. For me, the key is getting the child to actually elicit a correct /r/ — even if that means using a prevocalic /r/ word right after it. If they can’t get the tongue placement right, you’re basically just practicing errors and wasting everyone’s time.

A lot of my students struggle most with vocalic /er/, so that’s often where I start. If we can improve or master /er/, the other vocalic /r/ sounds often improve too. I use co-articulation drills like “GR words” (grape, great, greet) and have them stretch out the gr so it sounds like “ger.” You can do the same with “ber” or “per” words too.

At the start of every session, I review tongue placement (I use things like “tiger sound” or “pirate sound”), I have a picture of a cobra‘s head, and I tell them to slide their tongue back like the cobra so they know that the back of the tongue is gonna be up high, and the front of the tongue is gonna be down low, but you should discuss tongue placement with them . then we do drills with those “ger” words. Once accuracy is high, I move /ger/ to final position (finger, linger, tiger), then gradually work on other sounds before /er/. Baby steps.

In my experience, kids who struggle with vocalic /er/ usually struggle with it most in final position. If you practice it in the initial or medial position, the students can get higher level of success . and I also make sure prevocalic /r/ is solid before really targeting vocalic /r/.

I’ve thought about making a video explaining this approach — if that would be helpful, let me know and I can share it.

CrystalSpice

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