The Missing Link for SLPs Podcasts
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These podcasts are taken from interviews of people within the SLP community and feature insightful life lessons, sage advice, and stories presented to help you improve your SLP career. Check back each week for more!
The Missing Link for SLPs Episode: 116 A Day in the Life of a School-Based SLP Series #14: Meet a Elementary and High School Level SLP, and a Resource Developer on the Side! #3
Today’s guest, Katelyn Kelps, not only works as an SLP at both high school and elementary level, she also develops resources and other fun stuff for SLPs on the side!
Listen to her talk with Katie Widestrom-Landgraf about having flexibility, building trust with kids, collaboration with other staff, how she sets boundaries and recharges, and her thoughts on maybe having her own private practice in the future.
The Missing Link for SLPs Episode: 115 A Day in the Life of a School-Based SLP Series #14: You can do it! Working as an SLP in a high school setting #2
In this episode, we hear from an SLP who loves her work in high schools! Karly Sisco talks with Katie Widestrom-Landgraf about misconceptions people may have about high school populations, and how she adapted her SLP practice after working in medical, elementary, and then to high schools.
Karly has a particular interest in neurodiversity and shares her passion for helping prepare teens at high school to become self-advocates, functional, and independent. She also shares some of the challenges you may not learn about in grad school, particularly speech schedules and caseloads that may impact on the capacity to have individual sessions with students.
The Missing Link for SLPs Episode: 114 A Day in the Life of a School-Based SLP Series #14: She’s Back! Katie Widestrom-Landgraf talks on the joys of a switch to a school-based SLP
This first episode in a new series sees the welcome return of Katie Widestrom-Landgraf. In this episode, Katie reflects on how and why she switched from being a medical SLP to school-based, and how much she still loves a day in the life of a school-based SLP, over 20 years later.
Stay tuned! For the next 10 episodes of this series, Katie will be bringing her school-based SLP experience to the interviewing seat and talking with various guests also working in schools and educational settings.
The Missing Link for SLPs Episode: 113 The Speechless SLP Series #13: Moving Forward into Recovery
In this last episode in the Speechless SLP series with Vanessa Abraham, she speaks about different steps she has taken and still is, to get back to her old life, and where she’s thinking her experience of being speechless may lead in the future. You’ll hear how she has tried various natural therapies and remedies to help her recovery, taken CEUs to improve her knowledge, how she deals with PTSD, and her suggestions for resources and materials SLPs can create for patients and their families.
The Missing Link for SLPs Episode: 112 The Speechless SLP Series #12: Depression and Anxiety are Real
Have you ever heard a direct perspective of what it’s like to be in an ICU bed, speechless, and then getting a Passy Muir valve?
In this episode in the Speechless SLP series, Vanessa Abraham talks specifically about how this affected her mental health. Based on her experiences, she talks about how SLPs can help patients, and their families, tend to the invisible emotional and psychological scars that nobody can see.
The Missing Link for SLPs Episode: 111 The Speechless SLP Series #11: Why Nurses Make Some of the Best Friends an SLP Can Have
In this episode in the Speechless SLP series with Vanessa Abraham, we meet one of the first people to take care of her in the ICU, Shannon Cotton, RN. Care being the operative word, Shannon walks her talk. Shannon shares how she navigated and planned appropriate communication with Vanessa while she was speechless, the important role that SLPs working in ICUs play, and her suggestions for SLPs working with patients and their families.
The Missing Link for SLPs Episode: 110 The Speechless SLP Series #10: From Fentanyl to Friendship
In this episode, the tenth in the Speechless series with Vanessa Abraham, Laura shares her experiences being on the nightshift with Vanessa as a patient, awake and unable to speak. Laura also talks about how ICU nursing staff works with Speech, PT, and OTs and has some great advice for working as a team with other health professionals.
The Missing Link for SLPs Episode: 109 The Speechless SLP Series #9: Unconditional Love and Unending Support
A pivotal role when a parent with young children suddenly becomes critically ill is who is going to look after the kids. In this episode of the Speechless SLP with Vanessa Abraham, we hear from her mom, Pam, on what it was like to have a daughter needing hospital care, and a young granddaughter needing to be looked after as well.
The Missing Link for SLPs Episode: 108 The Speechless SLP Series #8: The Experience of Treating a Colleague
Whatever setting you work in, having an understanding of the various skills, and approach to care, of allied disciplines is important. In this eighth episode of the Speechless SLP series, Vanessa Abraham and I talk with the two Physical Therapists involved in her ICU care.
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