Aug 30, 2016
Today’s speechie thought: How to involve International Talk Like A Pirate Day in therapy with my clients.
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Today’s speechie thought: How to involve International Talk Like A Pirate Day in therapy with my clients.
A client's mum sent me through her school report. I know teachers have lots to do, and reports are meant to be easily understood, but goddamn, this report tells me nothing useful. Her writing is marked as below average. What does that mean? What were they even writing? Is it syntax, vocabulary, spelling, structure...? Also, reading is marked as average, which from hearing her read out loud, it certainly is NOT, so.....
I’ve acquired a job in speech pathology (yay!!!!) and I’m working with a whole bunch of football players. I know next to nothing about their game, but that’s mostly cool. However, today, one of my colleagues was talking about some new player, and I WAS ABLE TO GUESS WHO SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT. HIS TEAM AND HIS COUNTRY OF ORIGIN.
WHAT AM I BECOMING
Talking to a guy on OKC who stutters and is using a treatment program which has no scientific basis, no speech pathologist involvement, and is obviously a money-making venture... *eyetwitch*. I want to save him, but he’s too far gone. He already thinks it’s better than speechie-run programs.
Today, I got to play Mario Kart, which was being used to encourage social skills between some teen boys with ASD. This meant I got to yell at the screen lots in the name of socialisation and SCIENCE! Also I owned them all.
The hell-placement I was at last summer has asked me to come back, as a paid person! It's not great pay because they operate on donations, but wow. That's pretty flattering. I hope it'll be less hellish for me when I'm supporting students rather than being one.
Did I mention tomorrow we have a practical exam with an actor-patient which could be about ANYTHING? And we've really only had 2 days to prepare? (Unless you were really organised and could study while completing the 3 assignments due last week) They're not even trying to keep us sane any more.
MUST. GRADUATE. WITHOUT. ANXIETY DISORDER.
The mantra of every speechpath student at Unimelb.