The Way of the Unstressed Speechie: Speech Therapy without Tears
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Why do speech‑language professionals feel stressed and how can they find relief?
If you are a speech language pathologist, an SLPA, an S A L T, or some other alphabet soup doing speech therapy with kids, and you are stressed out and you are overwhelmed, then you are not alone and you are in the right place. There are so many kids right now that need our support, and there are not enough of us to go around. So what's an SLP to do? Well, don't worry, I'm Carrie Clark, and on this episode, Of the Speech and Language Kids podcast. I'm gonna show you the way to be unstressed, just like a schwa, and to do speech therapy without tears. And by that I mean your tears, not your students' tears, because I can't guarantee that the kids won't cry. But this is our first podcast recording that we are doing for the Speech and Language Kids podcast in a long, long while.
I was just looking on the uh podcast. podcast list and it looks like the last time we updated this podcast Was in 2016. But of course, that does not mean that I have been gone or missing. I have been doing all kinds of other things in that time. We had multiple different podcasts that we did during that time, as well as YouTube videos and social media channels and all kinds of other stuff. But today we're back. I have decided that I want to get back into doing the podcast, and I decided to go back. Back to the speech and language kids podcast because I really feel like it had. the vibe we need right now, which is I'm going to share all this amazing information with you guys for free. And if you need extra support, I have all kinds of resources to help you.
But I want to make sure I can get this information out because, like I said, there are so many children right now who need our support, and there's not enough speech language professionals to go around. So we're seeing parents trying to fill in the gaps, teachers trying to fill in the gaps, and those of us who are speech language professionals trying to Go above and beyond and see way more kids than is even physically possible. And how do we do all this in a way that doesn't just drive us into the ground and burn us out? So today I'm going to be talking about this idea of how do we do speech therapy in the least stressful way possible. We're going to talk about streamlining and simplifying what you're doing.
so that you can be as effective as possible in as little time as possible with as little stress as possible. Okay, so I am actually right now doing this recording inside the hub, which is my membership program. So hi to Karen and Susanna and Cindy and Anna Catherine. I see you all in here watching live and Calusa uh Cusella, hello. So those of you who are with me live, you can go ahead and ask questions in the chat and I'll be answering those as we go along. And if you are listening this recording somewhere else and you are interested in listening and participating in our podcast recordings live. You can do that at hub.speechandlanguagekids.com. Now we're gonna do some giveaways here in just a few moments.
I'm gonna tell a story first. But if you are watching live, you're gonna get to participate in a giveaway. And if you are listening to the recording, you will also get to participate. So stick around. Okay. So I wanted to tell this story about one of the things I've been doing in the last however many years it's been since we updated the Speech and Language Kids podcast. And one of those things was that I got to partner up with my good friend Laura and we got to go take care of a school district that was about an hour from where we live. It is a rural school district, and it was a school district who did not have a speech language pathologist up until a few years ago. And part of that reason was that we had a law in Missouri where you could have a speech, what were they called?
It wasn't an SLPA, it was an implementer, I think was what it was called. So there was a speech language pathologist that was overseeing things, but all of the therapy and the ins and outs were run by the implementer. So the law changed and they needed an SLP. My friend Laura grabbed me and said, Hey, I need to go see this school district.
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