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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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family car trip tips and ideas

Vacation with Toddlers: Road Trip Activities

Planning great family vacations with toddlers can be stressful. Let’s face it, toddlers aren’t always the best road trip companions. We’ve been planning our upcoming family vacation, and it got me thinking… traveling with children is hard. 4-hour road trips often turn into 5 or 6 hours, routines are interrupted,

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Moving Forward: Dealing with Grief and Guilt

Typically, you come here to find information on speech therapy for toddlers, but today, it will get a little personal. We are going to be talking about dealing with grief when you have depression. When I started the SLP Next Door, it was with the intent to share all of

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