Empowering Independence: Fostering Effective Communication for Adult Success
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What is the purpose of this SLP Nerdcast CEU course and who are the hosts?
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Hello, everyone. Welcome to SLP Nerdcast. We are really excited. We're always excited for our episodes, uh, for our recordings. However, today's episode is about a topic that is very near and dear to our hearts, both Amy and myself, um, talking about working with complex communicators as they go into their teen and adult years. We are very excited to welcome a Content expert here with us today to teach us everything she knows. Welcome, Deirdre Flores.
Hi, thank you for having me on the podcast today.
Thank you so much for sharing your time with us today. You're here to discuss empowering independence, teaching and fostering effective communication skills for adult success. But before we get started on our topic, can you just tell us a little bit about yourself?
Sure. So I am a speech pathologist in Westport, Connecticut, and I have worked with teens and young adults my whole career. So in public schools and in private practices. I am the owner of a private practice called the Teen SLP, where we run groups focused on the communication skills that teens and young adults need. to be successful post-secondary, whether that is after high school, going to college, going to work, volunteer, going to a transition program. So what are the skills, communication and social skills that they need to be successful and independent in the adult world? Um in twenty twenty one I started my private practice because I saw that After public schools, so either 18 or 22 years old, when students leave the public schools, there's a big service gap that they are expected to enter adulthood with these skills.
And if you think about it. The clients that we see um previously, like right when they're 18 in public schools, um, they have speech therapy because their language disability affects their ability to Get the language skills needed for those environments just by being in the environment or observations, right? They need explicit instruction. But once they exit high school or they exit the public schools, It's expected of them to become an adult and then suddenly take on all the communication skills you need to be an adult just by observing. and being in the environment. Where we know as speech therapists that individuals with language disabilities really benefit with that explicit instruction. And I think um Autism Speaks has a really staggering statistic where it's fifty thousand um
Individuals with autism gr exit high school every year. So that is a huge population and that's just autism, right? As speech therapists, we treat a variety of clients that have a variety of different diagnoses, whether that be auditory processing, pragmatic language, attention difficulties, social anxiety.
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What is the purpose of this SLP Nerdcast CEU course and who are the hosts?
0:00–11:15
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How does Deirdre Flores describe her background and the service gap for neurodiverse teens and young adults?
11:15–25:50
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What are the learning objectives and why is client‑driven goal setting important for independence?
25:50–30:54
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How does self‑determination and motivation influence young adults’ participation in therapy?
30:54–48:42
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