RELATIONSHIPS

I’ve always gone out of my way in my workshops to talk about how important relationships are with our students. I found as a young SLP that when I focused on developing better relationships with my students, that discipline issues that I was experiencing became almost nonexistent.

To show how important this is, I just took over a 3 day a week caseload from an SLP who went out on a maternity leave. I’m seeing 48 students-with some seen 2-3 times a week. This week I was summoned into the principal’s office and he had gotten a call from a parent of one of my students. There was a big misunderstanding between this student and I and as I reflected, I realized that I had tried to do too much with my invasive articulation techniques before I had gotten to know the student.

The moral here is that you can have the best techniques in the world but until you have the trust of the student you are working with, the techniques don’t matter. The principal suggested that I take time to develop good relationships with the students. Obviously I knew that but didn’t practice what I preached!

Stephen SacksSATPAC Speech

To see details about /r/ and /s/ remediation and more information about my approach, I offer free ASHA CEUs on my website Satpac.com or you are welcome to just watch the presentation.

Workshops- Pam Marshalla just completed two terrific workshops in So. Cal. on Carryover in Articulation for SATPAC Speech. She is going to do two more in Texas in early 2015. I will be doing two workshops in So. Cal October 3rd and 4th. I’ll give details as the dates get closer.