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From the Blog

Honesty is the Best Policy

What to do When You Don’t Know What to do I spent several years as a school-based Speech Language Pathologist before working in home health. If you’ve worked in schools, then you know there’s not a lot of interaction with parents. So, when I started in the home health world,

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Moving on Up to New Beginnings

One of my favorite things about life is that we don’t get to go back. Even in the good moments. We are always moving forward. It’s something I adapted long ago when I found myself amid life feeling impossible. Something I could count on was the sun going down and

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the benefits of AAC in early intervention speech and language. This is part 3/3 of a conversation between The SLP Next Door and Speechie Side Up about AAC.

Benefits of AAC

Venita shares the benefits of AAC: building relationships with parents, modeling sign language, using functional words, and offering choices through visuals and objects.

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