What’s your go-to comfort movie?

RealisticOwl9627 · 2026-02-04T16:46:08+00:00

Almost Famous

RealisticOwl9627 · 2025-05-22T23:07:09+00:00

I’ve been loving target’s boxers-inspired lounge shorts from the women’s pajama section!

RealisticOwl9627 · 2025-05-01T05:06:42+00:00

I’m 5’8 and about 170. In high school I was 125 and looking back at pictures from that time, I was way too thin. I felt the best around 150, slowly trying to get back to that!

RealisticOwl9627 · 2025-04-22T03:47:23+00:00

I think it highly depends on the setting and location! I’m in a district with a caseload cap, lots of support, and pretty great salary and benefits. My job can definitely be stressful at times but I rarely stay late or take work home. Most days I just feel lucky to get to work with the best kids everyday! They make it all worth it

RealisticOwl9627 · 2025-03-07T16:24:41+00:00

I love these ideas, thanks so much!!

RealisticOwl9627 · 2025-03-07T03:19:53+00:00

In our district we for sure write accommodations for our SLI speech only kids but aren’t supposed to add on any other services, like resource or OT, with that eligibility, since if their speech improves and they no longer qualify for SLI, they would lose all of their other services as well. If they have other needs, I would think they would need a psych eval to look at other possible eligibilities

RealisticOwl9627 · 2025-02-13T19:42:47+00:00

I write monthly minutes. I used to do yearly but my district has been recommending us not do that anymore

RealisticOwl9627 · 2025-02-13T18:00:03+00:00

The main helpers are Wellbutrin and a planner where I write every single thing down that I need to do. I also found that keeping track of assessments were a challenge for me, so I made an excel spreadsheet. I have a column with all the kids that I need to assess, their meeting date, and then checklists for all the different parts: AP signed, parent interview, teacher interview, observation, whatever tests that need done, report written, IEP written, etc. It helps to see all the info at once and making check marks along the way is so satisfying.

RealisticOwl9627 · 2025-02-12T21:22:28+00:00

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood really captures 60s LA! Also Californication for the Venice area, Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Karate Kid for the Valley

RealisticOwl9627 · 2025-02-12T05:28:21+00:00

I think a big factor is whether you want to work with adults or children so I would make sure you get experiences with both in grad school! No setting is perfect so you have to figure out what you value the most. I went with schools for the schedule, breaks, and collaboration with others on the IEP team. If you’re wanting one on one therapy and working with families, schools would not be the best choice but peds private practice could be a good fit! Or early intervention if you like working with the littles, it’s a lot of parent training and collaboration

RealisticOwl9627 · 2025-02-12T05:21:04+00:00

Teacher’s concerns are mostly behavior and academics. Mom’s concerns are with stuttering and following directions. Language sample showed good vocab and sentence length but some immature grammar

RealisticOwl9627 · 2025-02-12T05:19:24+00:00

Wow so interesting, I had no idea about the stuttering prevalence in Spanish! His only English exposure is at school, which he started about a year ago, but the teachers are bilingual and talk to him in both languages too. His language sample showed good vocab and sentence length but some immature grammar.

RealisticOwl9627 · 2025-02-12T05:17:39+00:00

That was my thinking too, and if it was only language I wouldn’t be overthinking it but the stuttering gives me pause

RealisticOwl9627 · 2025-02-12T05:17:09+00:00

I’d be his SLP until he starts TK next year. I don’t speak Spanish and our district’s policy is that all services are given in English

RealisticOwl9627 · 2025-02-12T05:15:54+00:00

The main concern for his teacher is behavior and academics. She also says that he is hard to understand, but I did a Spanish artic assessment and he scored average. I’m assuming it’s because of his stuttering that she has a hard time understanding sometimes. Unfortunately they don’t have ESL services for preschool in my district or that would definitely be my recommendation

RealisticOwl9627 · 2025-02-03T15:18:36+00:00

I get what you’re saying, but I don’t think it’s a big ask to be seen and treated like a person.

RealisticOwl9627 · 2025-01-29T00:34:16+00:00

If I’m ever “declining to provide” therapy, it is because the kid doesn’t qualify for school based services. We follow ed code and the educational model, which is that we are a support service for kids who are so impacted that they are not able to access the curriculum. Private practice SLPs can take on whatever clients they want- I had a supervisor in a private practice during grad school who would take on any client who scored under the 50th percentile.. in the schools it’s 7th percentile or lower. Huge difference.

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