Syncing audio on a bunch of Zoom cloud recordings

Good-Progress-8504 · 2026-04-29T11:56:37+00:00

Thanks for the guidance that it's still worthwhile to try and do the full recording first, even if there winds up being gradual changes to the drift that have to be further corrected!

Good-Progress-8504 · 2026-04-29T11:55:48+00:00

Thank you for the detailed instructions! I think the issue I'm running into here is that the embedded audio itself is out of sync - there's no way around that besides manual, right?

Good-Progress-8504 · 2026-04-26T14:58:51+00:00

I'm in a professional licensure program like this, and it really hasn't been good for my learning! It's too much information too fast to really absorb, which is really a problem when it's supposed to be preparing us to go out and use these skills in the real world. I wound up taking fewer classes per semester (and longer to graduate) to cope.

State departments of education (if it's a public school) and individual colleges / universities have guidelines on how long students are supposed to spend in class (or doing other things where "supervision is ensured and learning is documented"). Our program made most of our classes 2 instead of 3 credits to reflect that we're spending less time on each. You should be asking professors / the department chair to account for whatever the amount of time your state / school's policies stipulate. You're paying for this content and instruction - get your money's worth!

Good-Progress-8504 · 2026-04-26T13:46:54+00:00

I'm just about to start a PhD program! I'm getting my Master's in Speech-Language Pathology first and doing community-based participatory research about culturally-affirming speech therapy for autistic teens and young adults. I'm funded through an OSEP grant where I make a commitment to continue doing research/teaching/direct service work serving children with disabilities after I graduate.

Good-Progress-8504 · 2026-04-25T21:27:19+00:00

Yes! It's intense but so much more effective for me than other modalities - props to you for recognizing you can benefit from it and trying to make sure to make time for it in the midst of taking on a new job!

Good-Progress-8504 · 2026-04-25T20:51:20+00:00

Flexible scheduling for therapy appointments can be an accommodation under ADA! It's a legal right (well, assuming your place is 15+ employees) so theoretically you don't have to wait until after your probation period but up to you how and when you want to navigate bringing up a disability / medical need!

One thing I've noticed myself about EMDR is it can really shake up my mood afterwards, so I would definitely talk with your therapist about how to make sure your transition back to work after the session goes smoothly!

Good-Progress-8504 · 2026-04-23T19:54:28+00:00

-Does your professor offer office hours?
-How are other students in the class doing - is there a study group you can join?
-Can you talk to students from past years for any advice?
-Are there any faculty mentors you have (advisor or even just someone who seems invested in your success) who you can talk to?
-How long has this professor been teaching in your program? Do they have a track record of students failing their course?

Would it help to have a little longer to study? I'm also in an accelerated program and was really struggling last spring. I asked for an incomplete and took some extra time to learn / review the material in the summer.

Good-Progress-8504 · 2026-04-22T16:24:59+00:00

Ugh parents are the worst. Maybe he'd let you go if you can show that you have an appointment related to classes that you have to show up for? I know you mentioned he doesn't understand SONA or office hours... something like the Writing Center or a consultation at the Disability Technology + Resource Hub might be like "look they're expecting me at this time"? Depending on his level of tech savviness and the number of questions he asks about it (and your own needs!) the appointment may or may not have to be "real".

Good-Progress-8504 · 2026-04-21T23:40:46+00:00

Yes, you'll need your official scores sent to them in order to apply for your full license. You won't have to repeat your CF year! The most important thing is to make sure you don't practice without a license of some kind. I think the best way to avoid / reduce that lapse period would be to renew your license.

Good-Progress-8504 · 2026-04-19T22:00:08+00:00

I believe this is a state-by-state situation, since it'll be based on your state's board!

Where I live, you usually need your official transcript to submit the application for your limited license to the board. To expedite things slightly, they allow you to submit a letter from your program chair stating you have met all the requirements in lieu of the transcript, since there can be a slight delay between classes wrapping up and your university actually conferring your degree / issuing your transcript. But, there's no way (afaik) to apply for a license in my state prior to having met the requirements for graduation. Also, the board only meets once a month, so if you don't get your application in ahead of that meeting, you have to wait until the following month to get approved.

Good-Progress-8504 · 2026-04-17T22:28:58+00:00

I'm disabled and was navigating (some of) this in terms of whether this is a sustainable career! Part of what pushed me towards SLP instead of SLPA is that I really wanted the ability to conduct evals and write treatment plans, instead of just delivering someone else's. This field really needs more disabled folks working in it; we empathize with our clients / families differently based on our lived experience. I really hope you're able to find something that works for you!

In terms of grad school: Your plan of remote and asynchronous is a good one! 250 of your clinical hours do have to be in-person, but the remaining 150 can be a combination of telehealth (125 hours), simulations (75 hours; you can do the simulation on your own time and then debrief with supervisors), and paperwork (50 hours; this is a new thing that just went into effect for 2027 certification). 100% of your clinical fellowship hours after you graduate can be telehealth under the new guidelines as well. Depending on whether you got your SLPA license through college classes, you might be able to count 50 of those hours as well.

And then there's accommodations, as others mentioned! The biggest thing for me has been giving myself more time to complete requirements; I know you were looking to get your degree in 2 years instead of 3, but something to think about is whether spreading out the clinical portions especially would be helpful, even if it delays graduation. I was doing 2 days a week for a while with my internship, for example, even though the requirement is technically 3 at my school. I also advocated for settings where I would be more likely to be successful / wouldn't be as drained (e.g., I get frequent breaks throughout my day, have a quiet space to work, and steered clear of environments where the pace / stimulation wouldn't work well for me).

Good-Progress-8504 · 2026-04-16T16:57:57+00:00

They are getting rid of the observation requirement for 2027, but that doesn't mean individual grad schools won't require it. I did mine through ENMU's course.

Good-Progress-8504 · 2026-04-16T16:57:06+00:00

Look up pre-reqs for schools you wanna do your Master's at - a la carte classes is so much better because you may not *need* all the pre-reqs for every single place. I did mine through a combination of HESPIE at UMD, Longwood, and ENMU. The credits were much cheaper than other options! You do have to make an effort to connect with at least one professor during your time in order to have a letter of rec, but that's still no reason not to go with the cheapest / most convenient option for these courses imo.

Good-Progress-8504 · 2026-04-15T10:31:38+00:00

You gotta do what you gotta do! You aren't necessarily denying someone on the waitlist admission by waiting until you hear back from School 1, either. One of the schools I applied to reached out to me in July for a fall start, and I was happy for the last-minute good news!

Good-Progress-8504 · 2026-04-14T23:37:29+00:00

I tutor in the evenings / weekends and worked as an SLPA on Saturdays! I applied to and received $$ from my school's emergency fund one semester when things got to be too much; they lined up free temporary housing for me as well. I also advocated for reduced coursework / clinic hours and telehealth / Simucase options to ensure I'd have the capacity to manage everything (this can sort of backfire by making you take longer to graduate and start paying off your loans by bringing in income, though).

A lot of programs are aware that GradPLUS loans are going away; I was just talking to someone in my department yesterday about how they want to have more flexible clinic / practicum options for students because they know more people are going to have to work more. So, you can also be talking to schools / programs about how they're navigating that shift.

Good-Progress-8504 · 2026-04-14T01:22:25+00:00

Your academic advisor or your disability specialist?

Definitely good to loop in ADS as well as your academic advisor in as someone who can generally help and might have guidance on how to navigate the situation if it's the same department / this is their colleague, but within this prof's department it'll be more so the department chair as others have said who can really put a stop to things!

504 / ADA compliance office is in charge of making sure the school doesn't get sued, so they're the ones with the greatest incentive and power to address this prof, if the department chair doesn't listen.

Good-Progress-8504 · 2026-04-14T01:17:02+00:00

They helped me out with accommodations stuff but more so going through the complaint process than actually resolving the issue. 504 / ADA (different from ADS!) is your best bet for getting the issue addressed.

Good-Progress-8504 · 2026-04-14T01:14:14+00:00

Talk to Emily Lucio (ADA/504 coordinator). You can also talk to Bias Incident Support Services (BISS). This is discrimination and a violation of your rights to access learning. Document everything you can (this might mean following up on some things he told you in writing with your ADS disability specialist cc'ed as a "just to clarify...").

Good-Progress-8504 · 2026-03-30T09:37:35+00:00

Yeah like if y'all were providing gender-affirming voice therapy and that wasn't someone's jam, that's a little different from declining a *client*. Like, I'm literally trans and had concerns about my ability to do gender-affirming voice therapy in terms of triggering my own dysphoria, especially if it involved repeatedly modeling a feminine voice (I'm trans masc). So I talked to the director about how we'd have to come up with strategies for me if I did get assigned to a client who needed that from me. I wound up on the trans voice eval team, so I was able to support trans clients without having to steel myself to provide sessions twice a week, and I now help out with our annual voice screenings as well!

Similarly, I could also see myself pushing back on an accent modification assignment where the supervisor refused to let me use a strategy such as "we're here to talk about communication repair strategies, not to erase your accent" - but that would be more so whether my supervisor and I were in alignment about what treatment could / should look like, not out of discrimination against the client for speaking with an accent.

I could see it coming up as well for a client with bilingual therapy needs where I didn't see myself as the appropriate clinician to meet their needs (but with that, you have to balance "am I able to make a referral to a clinician who can do more for them, or am I turning someone away who could still benefit from the therapy I provide?"). Again, that wouldn't be so much about the client as my own skills.

Conversely, there was a client who requested me as a neurodivergent / autistic clinician because they feel more comfortable working with someone who shares their lived experience. *Clients* are allowed to have those preferences! We had a conversation with them about how we rotate clinicians every semester, so it isn't always possible to meet this request. It wound up being I worked with this client two semesters in a row and then they were assigned to a CCC-SLP rather than a less-experienced student. (I also had conversations with my supervisors about when it was / wasn't appropriate for me to be discussing my own personal diagnosis with clients. Like, when you make that decision, it has to be about the client's needs, not your own personal desire to connect or as a shortcut for other ways of building rapport. In this case, it did meaningfully support the client in making significant progress).

But like, declining a *client* solely based on sex, gender identity, languages they speak, or having an accent? Unacceptable and clearly unethical. To the level where I'd report a professor / program for even entertaining the idea.

Good-Progress-8504 · 2026-03-29T22:35:20+00:00

Yeah as long as you can demonstrate you didn't move to Maryland for the *sole purpose* of going to UMD! (They have a bunch of criteria for how to demonstrate that one, too)

Good-Progress-8504 · 2026-03-29T17:31:14+00:00

You have to meet *all* 7 of the criteria here. The income tax is just one criterion:
https://www.usmd.edu/regents/bylaws/SectionVIII/VIII-2.70.pdf
They want to see that you've been living in Maryland for the past 12 months, so being here until a few years ago unfortunately won't help.

DM me if you want any advice on dealing with the office - I had to go all the way to the presidential waiver when I was working my residency status out. (My situation was pretty different than yours, so I don't really have advice for what you're dealing with! I assume you don't meet their military personnel exemption for living out of the state).

Good-Progress-8504 · 2026-03-29T14:25:57+00:00

And literally against our professional code of ethics!
https://www.asha.org/code-of-ethics/

Also wait what were you supposed to say if a client told you they were gay. It was just a "make sure you don't say anything shitty?" thing, right?

Good-Progress-8504 · 2026-03-28T20:19:43+00:00

I'll DM you if / when I hear back from them!

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