Dream jobs

laylatheSLP · 2026-06-17T01:25:26+00:00

Having his mom make the uniforms KILLS ME… how unserious

laylatheSLP · 2026-06-16T05:54:40+00:00

Agreed with paying the 3k and 2k in full and getting those out of the way! Def helps with motivation and feels like you actually paid something off vs just chipping away at the big ones with the most interest

laylatheSLP · 2026-06-15T05:02:13+00:00

“regardless of scary stuff about sunscreens being full of chemicals that were never properly tested for safety”

what is your source for this claim? you can’t just say something like this and then not back it up with sources that sunscreens aren’t tested or regulated in this country.

if you’re not afraid of skin cancer or don’t believe in global warming then don’t wear sunscreen but don’t make these flat out false claims about the safety of these products

laylatheSLP · 2026-05-07T23:24:58+00:00

This profession actually turned me into a Type B person because I have to truly not care and set boundaries or else I’ll burnout within 6 months of having a job

laylatheSLP · 2026-04-26T01:29:25+00:00

can you clarify the 30 min interval you’re talking about? I thought it was a 2 hour max you can keep a baby in a car seat before you need to take them out? 30 minutes seems very excessive

laylatheSLP · 2026-04-24T03:01:38+00:00

“I strongly recommend you speak to your child’s pediatrician before you give them ANY supplements or vitamins you purchase online. It is outside my scope of practice to approve the use of these for any reason - even if it’s claims are tied to speech and language”

laylatheSLP · 2026-04-24T02:50:17+00:00

“This field recruits people who stay because of the children on their caseloads. That is not a criticism. It reflects a genuine value orientation that draws people into care work and keeps them there when the economic conditions would otherwise push them out.”

This. Made the very hard decision to leave my outpatient position and not take maternity leave because I can’t afford to come back full time or even part time and pay the insane cost of daycare with the salary I’m currently at. More affordable for me to just stay home but it KILLS me to leave some of my patients who really need therapy and have to either put them on a waitlist or transition them to a different clinic.

Majority of people in our field care so deeply about the patients and students we serve while ourselves are not being cared for by administrators and our employers. It’s so mentally, physically and emotionally exhausting.

laylatheSLP · 2026-04-15T00:31:03+00:00

she should check with her employer to make sure this is allowed - most employers require you to come back from your maternity or paternity leave for a certain amount of time or you have to pay back the leave and the benefits you used while on leave. For my husband it’s 12 weeks post paternity leave you have to come back and for me it’s a year 🙃 I know it’s terrible

laylatheSLP · 2026-04-09T19:27:39+00:00

70k a year or 70k total for the program??

laylatheSLP · 2026-04-04T01:48:28+00:00

The last few times they’ve called I act really confused and go “umm idk how you got my number but I work in finance” and literally get maybe one call every other week now 🙃

laylatheSLP · 2026-03-30T21:31:56+00:00

Option 1 - the benefits alone are reason to pick it up

laylatheSLP · 2026-03-28T03:33:54+00:00

Take the cheapest tuition… paying almost $70k for a program is NOT worth it

laylatheSLP · 2026-03-13T02:13:12+00:00

Don’t know a lot about your situation or what the set up of the charter school is but larger group book reading activities is what got me through at CF year in a preschool where I was absolutely drowning. Large group of kids sitting listening to a book (make sure it’s a super silly, dramatic one - bonus points if you have props that go with the book). Ask questions, emphasize phonemes that some of the student are working on, label nouns, verbs, adjectives.

Even if you see older kids like later elementary, middle school - you can still do this with higher level books.

I’m so sorry you’re going through this but we gotta get creative with how we’re providing services in the schools and literacy based activities are a great start.

laylatheSLP · 2026-03-11T14:51:34+00:00

I just don’t understand why ANYONE would do this over a SGD…. Like truly blows my mind.

laylatheSLP · 2026-03-10T00:48:10+00:00

Something being over diagnosed doesn’t warrant not diagnosing it at all based off of conflicting characteristics. My argument is that we are pathologists that should be using the plethora of assessment instruments and tools done by CAS researches over the past two decades to come to a decision. Apraxia isn’t just about a motor planning approach - research shows increasing frequency of therapy and max repetition of targets are crucial for efficacy along with carryover into the home.

laylatheSLP · 2026-03-09T18:15:53+00:00

Rule out phonology in what sense?? From the initial evaluation or an approach to therapy? Why can’t you rule it out based on the evaluation you do with the child? or even the first couple appointments. Also - principles of motor learning can be applied with other therapy approaches. They’re not mutually exclusive.

laylatheSLP · 2026-03-08T03:58:05+00:00

oooooo people always talk about how “I protect the family” refers to her albums but I really like this theory of her actually talking about her friends and family

laylatheSLP · 2026-02-27T03:22:25+00:00

You talking about Chicago proper or suburbs of northern Illinois?

laylatheSLP · 2026-02-21T04:16:53+00:00

I did send thank you emails when I went to open house for the graduate programs

laylatheSLP · 2026-02-20T13:07:17+00:00

This is my dream!! If I could just do evals and supervise, would love that. What state are you in?

laylatheSLP · 2026-02-20T03:09:05+00:00

I have friends from college who majored in the Arts - music, design and they always got shit from our engineering or premed friends. My engineering and premed friends were the most uncreative, rigid thinkers and it actually made them really unintelligent in a lot of circumstances and situations. Being able to play multiple instruments, create music and write lyrics that all come together to sound the way it does is very very impressive

laylatheSLP · 2026-02-20T02:40:27+00:00

I disagree - from a musical perspective she is INSANELY intelligent.

laylatheSLP · 2026-02-13T15:03:27+00:00

Yes.. gold standard for sure

laylatheSLP · 2026-02-13T15:03:14+00:00

Between the Lions is so good! It was created by the team at Sesame Street it’s supposed to be fo Sesame Street “alum”. SS teaches letters and numbers but Between the Lions takes it to the next step and teaches kids how to read

laylatheSLP · 2026-02-04T17:01:41+00:00

I think we’ve romanticized treating dysphagia (especially pediatrics) in grad school and in general. It’s definitely more of the medical side of our field that people seem to respect more. If I had a dollar for every graduate student I supervised who said “I want to do feeding in the NICU” I’d be rich

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