In this podcast episode, the cohosts share advice for early career SLPs.
The cohosts share their favorite parts of being an SLP. The share what they did wrong, what they wish they’d done instead, and advice for moving forward.
Sarie shares how weekly themes have helped her streamline planning and do more crafts and fun activities.
Listener Question
I’m new to the school setting and I am enjoying it, but between phone calls, emails, evaluations, and scheduling meetings, I feel like there’s no way to do it all, and I feel bad about it. I’m also the only SLP in a small district, so I don’t even know if this feeling is normal or not. Do you feel this way? What do you do when you feel this way?
Advice from Sarah and Sarie Includes:
Ask for help, and keep up the communication
Remember the process
Acknowledge that you can’t do it all and it’s normal to feel this way
Sometimes by NOT doing something, the problem solves it’s self (or at least doesn’t get worse)
Research emotional labor and decision fatigue and understand how that can impact your emotions
You can’t do it all, and acknowledge this
Set email and phone call times to check/answer (Episode 6 All About Email is a great one for more on this)
Use time saving tools and templates
Consider organizing an SLP dinner out to just chat
Advice for CFs & What We’d Do Differently
The cohosts share what they’d do differently during their time as CFs, for the complete list sign up for the newsletter.
AAC Resources mentioned: PODD Books, Beautiful Speech Life on Instagram, Praactical AAC Blog
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