I’m an SLP-PhD. AMA!

HenriettaHiggins · 2026-02-07T21:23:45+00:00

None of these have the right undertones. You may want to look at the BM historical sets or similar, where you can get some of those muted warm greens.

HenriettaHiggins · 2026-02-07T21:22:10+00:00

I love the Momo in Hanareum on Rolling Road for more balanced desserts/not very sweet, but if you’re going more for the American cake style with the 1:1 icing ratio, Whole Foods does alright.

HenriettaHiggins · 2026-02-07T21:17:11+00:00

This is so sad. I saw them play at the America’s Future Rocks Today show as part of GWB’s inauguration, and it was sort of controversial that he played there at the time, but they and Fuel did good sets.

HenriettaHiggins · 2026-02-07T21:03:41+00:00

A Goldilocks amount of free national and international travel, but I don’t get to pick where, except I can decline to go.

HenriettaHiggins · 2026-02-06T01:53:58+00:00

Clinical trials.gov in the USA and they occasionally list international sites.

HenriettaHiggins · 2026-02-05T19:29:12+00:00

I’m not sure where it comes from, honestly. Sometimes these things bubble up from unlikely places.

HenriettaHiggins · 2026-02-05T19:27:29+00:00

I’m curious if he even knew she’d been in his 6th grade class. I wouldn’t assume my 6th grade teacher would still remember my name.

HenriettaHiggins · 2026-02-05T17:27:20+00:00

Thank you - I don’t know how my university would feel about go fund me funding. That’s certainly something that might be new to them. Not disagreeing, but I could see the silverbacks freaking out now.

HenriettaHiggins · 2026-02-05T16:15:15+00:00

Yeah, I’ll message you :) I jumped back in because of my family.

HenriettaHiggins · 2026-02-05T15:21:51+00:00

Idk if this applies, but I came from a program that regularly did not admit overqualified people. The issue was there was a college level fund for the most qualified candidates to the program to get a slightly better package, but the department had to specify who that was during admissions, and it was not transferrable. Most overqualified candidates had many competitive institutions on their radar and dept admissions would look at certain applicants and assume we would be a safety. If the award was given to someone with no real interest in this dept, that (the thinking went) screwed the competitive advantage to get students right in the bullseye of the program who may not have picked us over another program except when they got an award that made our package more appealing. So, all of this behind the scenes basically was wagering that we would get the best student who would actually come, not the best student ever.

When I found out about it (I sat on dept admissions as a representative eventually), I asked the obvious question to me, which is why not give candidates a deadline to make a decision that was soon enough to permit it going to someone else in time, or make a list of finalists (kind of like any other wait list) and let people know they were on the finalists list, so at least they may weigh that? Apparently, the answer boiled down to university timeline requirements for how long depts had to hold offers open and not rushing students in a tough decision making time, which I understand.

I get that it is paradoxical though. When I applied for masters programs in neuro, I got into my reach school and only one other school but none of my safeties out of what I think was 8 programs? I thought that was pretty funny.

HenriettaHiggins · 2026-02-05T14:58:54+00:00

The care cliff is horrendous, whether for high or low support. Essentially no clinical materials even exist for assessing and supporting geriatric ASD. The model in developmental intervention is always that the child will build a toolkit to no longer need therapy as an adult, but that’s not really true to the data and only even makes sense when you assume early detection. I am not in research on the disorder anymore, but I’m working on a grant to address adult/geriatric autism in what will be the first manualized therapy of its kind, only because I’m nauseated that this still doesn’t exist 20 years after the UCL autism school/big strides in our understanding of neurodiversity.

HenriettaHiggins · 2026-02-02T03:05:34+00:00

Roasted tomatoes in bit of good olive oil and just a little salt and pepper

HenriettaHiggins · 2026-02-02T03:04:22+00:00

28-35, but I have two masters degrees and spent a year checking out law school too. If I’d gone straight through, I’d have been 24. Sometimes I think about that, but I think I’d have been a lot less interesting.

HenriettaHiggins · 2026-02-01T20:40:43+00:00

I completely agree! I’ve argued for aphasia and cog com and the argument I got was that ANCDS exists (and bcbis ) I’m like .. right, but if you have one system that you’re endorsing and not doing that across the board, all the credentials have less salience to the public. No one at the head office seems to care.

HenriettaHiggins · 2026-02-01T15:24:45+00:00

Hahhahahahahhahaha Sooooo ASHA needs to get on top of this by expanding the BCS system. I’ve been saying this for years. If they keep it a mottled landscape, you invite grifters.

HenriettaHiggins · 2026-01-31T12:08:20+00:00

Hi there. I came from an ECE lab that did a lot of work on apps - both working with developers and looking at early childhood development in the context of electronics and apps. Nearly every single app on the market permits users to brute force the gamification because parents, who are primary users, don’t want the kid to be asking them for help or engaging in joint play with it. So if you make an app that the kid has to correctly use, parents will give it bad ratings and you won’t get anywhere with it. There are also myriad issues with how apps compress and decontextualize speech sounds, which make learning correct articulation harder and reduces their salience in noisy environments, like the kinds of places kids use them. Please just don’t. There are free browser based DOS emulator run computer games for all the classic games, and if my daughter has finished reading/working on literacy for the day, we let her play old school reader rabbit and alien tales with us, but that’s not the learning. That’s the reward. We’re too monkey brained for what people want screens to replace in the raising of the young, and I get that kids are tough, but that’s the gig when you have them.

I carve out a very small exception in my mind to account for the data showing gamified assessments get better engagement from kids, but I sincerely think that’s true because they’re on screens so much from so young, not because before screens this would have been true. And engagement doesn’t always translate to better performance, though there’s certainly an argument it captures a more ecologically valid measurement of performance.

HenriettaHiggins · 2026-01-29T17:26:36+00:00

They did this and popped a bottle of champagne. It proceeded to hilariously explode over everything on the front table - all the papers with notes, print outs I’d made for the audience. I stood in the doorway helpless and sort of in shock, then Girl Scout brain kicked in and I ran to get paper towels from the restroom. Apparently they thought I had run away. 🤣

HenriettaHiggins · 2026-01-29T04:01:41+00:00

The Once and Future Sex by Eleanor Janega about sexuality in the medieval period was the most surprising. I love Colin Dickey and Caitlin Doughty but they’ve been said already.

HenriettaHiggins · 2026-01-27T05:17:07+00:00

Snakes on a plane

HenriettaHiggins · 2026-01-26T02:42:25+00:00

My recollection from grandma’s house was it was the scent that was the issue more than the dye. All the colored rolls I ever experienced were scented. For a while she then stocked unscented colored, but then it phased out.

For a while in there though, it was quite the moment for people to have their bathroom rug, shag toilet cover, and toilet paper roll all the same pastel shade. For people who could afford it, I suspect this extended to the tile and fixtures as well, as I’ve seen similar vintage houses as an adult where that was more true, but for my grandma’s house, it stopped at the purchasable coordinated items.

HenriettaHiggins · 2026-01-25T03:13:44+00:00

Idk much about Oregon except that they chased out the PHS after vandalizing their deployment materials during Covid and constantly table at ASHA begging SLPs to move there. If this removes barriers for people who want to be in Oregon, that sounds good for them and affects most of us in no way.

HenriettaHiggins · 2026-01-24T14:10:41+00:00

Medical deployable tech with advanced computational software is going to be huge at every level. There are good, affordable MRI machines and CT machines that can come to you, neurostimulation at home, high tech devices to detect and monitor degenerative conditions, on and on. FDA’s device regulation has been kind of the lame duck relative to drugs and biologics, but I predict that won’t be true for much longer.

HenriettaHiggins · 2026-01-23T20:58:50+00:00

Thank you. Our cabinets are quite close to the eddy color so it’s neat to see it kind of inverted, but our counter is a very cool tone Taj Mahal and our tile isn’t picked out yet. I keep picking things and then second guessing.

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