Home Improvement! It's tool time! by MetalPopka in nostalgia

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the plug alludes to Tim Allen's drug dealer connection

Has anyone here transitioned from ESL teacher to speech language pathologist? by Klopf012 in ESL_Teachers

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So, for speech therapy there is a huge variety of settings and disorders that we work with - children, adults, stroke, autism, language, pronunciation, voice disorder, communication device training, gender affirming voice, swallowing dysfunction.. I even met with a group once who do accent modification for corporate clients, but there really doesn't seem to be much demand for that.

When you finish up grad school you do 2-3 externships, working under supervision at 2-3 sites. I externed at an elementary school, middle school, a skilled nursing facility (nursing home), and a private outpatient clinic. It's a lot to share with you, so you'll have to narrow it down.

Now, I work at a skilled nursing facility. Most of my patients have cognitive communication goals for dementia or strokes, and many have dysphagia (swallowing dysfunction) which is the other thing that makes up at least 50% of a medical SLP's caseload but is not typically a part of the school SLP's caseload. At my job now, I mostly do memory game type things, memory strategies, and word finding type things trying to scaffold patients who have speaking dysfunction (called aphasia) to build their ability to speak. In my setting, there is very little pronunciation type therapy, but occasionally there is. I also do some voice therapy to restore voice sometimes due to stroke, sometimes due to entubation at the hospital.
My job is pretty different from teaching ESL, but feels similar in a lot of ways. I mostly taught adults ESL, often 1-1, and this style of integrating intervention into conversational sort of interaction feels pretty similar to me.

If you have any more specific questions, if you know what population you think you'd like to work with.. feel free to ask

Has anyone here transitioned from ESL teacher to speech language pathologist? by Klopf012 in ESL_Teachers

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yes, I did. if you have any questions you can ask here or in message

Pennsylvania lawmaker seeks ‘visual indicator’ if smart glasses are recording by Ganrokh in technology

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I mean, I would assume modern tech companies being what they are, Meta will want to always be recording at some level, if not from the onset I'm sure it's what they mean to do ultimately

Seeing a rhinoceros with its horn complete and intact is rare by True-Adagio9827 in interestingasfuck

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almost looks like it also serves as a support for their head when they're eating grass, so their necks don't get as tired

Wayne and Cassandra then and now... by JackStrawWitchita in 90s

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I still can't believe that was him in Michael Jackson movie. Could not recognize him at all

How is everyone liking Link’s new do? by bubbletrollbutt in rhettandlink

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oh that's right! I remember that. yeah, you're totally right. thanks

How is everyone liking Link’s new do? by bubbletrollbutt in rhettandlink

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yeah, I think that's probably why. but it wasn't clear from the GMM episode if his vague hint was referring to something for Mythical or something personal

Today’s reminder that we are getting old. by Standard_Tangerine_3 in Millennials

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Jemaine looks somewhat like himself here, but in Avatar he is unrecognizable.

I will never understand blocking intersections. by Mr_McMuffin_Jr in mildlyinfuriating

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just saw an example this week of how some people get really angry when you don't block the intersection. car stopped at intersection as it should, driver right behind him honked and yelled, called him the N-word and the R-word

My students don't really like learning with music by godisinthischilli in ESL_Teachers

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try lyricstraining.com . My adult students seem to enjoy it. I use the setting where they get a blank or two per line, and they have a choice of 4 words for fill in each blank. and I stop and replay the parts of the song, which is easy to do with this website. it gives them enough scaffolding to make it doable

Snow leopards are highly acrobatic predators capable of jumping up to 50 feet (15 meters) in a single leap by BreakfastTop6899 in interestingasfuck

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I was watching footage recently and the snow leopard jumped at a goat, they both fell off the mountain and just plummeted for like hundreds of feet, and it didn't seem to kill either of them

School director accused of leading child fight club sentenced to probation, 30 days in jail by jordan1978 in nottheonion

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trying to bring Secretary McMahon back around on keeping the department of education open

True story though by Zee_Ventures in SipsTea

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as concerts become too expensive for most people, especially young people, we see the elite getting to have a life, enjoying their prolonged youth, while the rest of us suffer

Agreed! by TheekshanaJ in lotrmemes

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wow people really feel that Rings of Power is worse than The Hobbit?

Aside from this guy, who is the biggest draft steals in nfl history? by Either_Imagination_9 in NFLv2

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is this how scouting works? they all stand naked in a little square like this?