Amy Wonkka

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4,197 appearances 26 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2025 last heard 11 May

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SLP Nerdcast · SLP Middle Managers: Untapped Champions of Change · 16 Feb 2026 podcast

I'm getting I'm getting lots of air claps in the Zoom room for those of you who are listening. podcast-host

Um podcast-host

So quickly pivoting to talk about a little education example and Mary Beth, maybe you can elaborate. podcast-host

Um, there is what in the paper there is a description of podcast-host

uh a lead SLP who kind of serves in this similar hybrid role to both you um to sh both you Shauna and Sarah. podcast-host

who has a small caseload but manages a department and the things that you're talking about also replicated in an educational space, right? podcast-host

So there's always staff meeting, there's always these components of infrastructure in a school. podcast-host

And this particular SLP, shout out to Sarah Valley. podcast-host

Here in Massachusetts. podcast-host

Uh, who shared her experiences for the purposes of this paper that was published? podcast-host

Um, creating things like journal clubs, creating things like clinical rounds, creating things like a peer mentoring circle where you bring your challenging cases, you create a hive mind, you create podcast-host

um, you know, opportunities and increasing capacity for SLPs in a school to it's not traits. podcast-host

I mean, I don't even understand half the words you're you met SLP, brilliant med SLPs use. podcast-host

But you know, it's not about the same clinical topic, but it's the same infrastructure. podcast-host

Uh and those can be created as created in schools as well and and have been. podcast-host

Mary Beth, I don't know if you want to um back me up or tell me that. podcast-host

I'm wrong, both options are completely appropriate. podcast-host

Okay, good. podcast-host

So, you know, going into our last couple of minutes here, um, I I just wanna recap and talk a little bit about just in summary how important knowledge brokering is in the role of of man of the SLP manager. podcast-host

Um, and how by leveraging our relationships and creating capacity, we are really in I say we like I'm a middle manager, I'm not managing anybody, but you all, brilliant human beings of the world. podcast-host

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