Ep. 13: The Highly Effective Role Parents Can Play in Therapy
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Why is parent involvement crucial for successful speech therapy?
What's up, everyone? Welcome to Making the Shift.
Where we listen to autistic voices.
Explore new therapy ideas.
And share neurodiversity-affirming methods and strengths-based approaches to support autistic kids.
Because we're not here to try and, quote, fix kids.
We are here to love them, embrace them, and celebrate them for who they are. I'm Jessi Ginsberg, sensory integration trained SLP, founder of a top-rated speech therapy clinic in Los Angeles, and creator of the Inside Out Sensory Certificate for SLPs.
And I'm Chris Winger, also known as Speech Dude, high school SLP, and creator of the Dynamic Assessment for Social Emotional Learning. Are you ready to make the shift?
Let's do it.
Hello, everyone. Welcome to Making the Shift. We are squeezed all together on this couch. And today you will see we have a very special guest with us.
Hi, guys. Oh, wait, Emily.
Okay.
All right. See
how this is going to go. That's nice. That's nice. Welcome to our life. Thank you. I
just had therapy, eight children in a
row that I'm going to. Yeah. Yeah. This is good. And I feel like a lot of the people watching will probably just have been in that same position. Yeah. Yes. But Emily is a SLP in our office. She's our speech and language program director here at our clinic, pediatric therapy playhouse. And she is, you've always been like a back to back kid fly by the seat of your pants kind of therapist.
Yeah. I, I'm just, once I'm energized and I'm doing it, You're
in it. I'm in it.
Yeah.
There's like therapists who need like two kids break, two kids break. What are you like?
Gosh, I am more like two minutes break, two minutes break. No, I don't know. I actually try and I might, my style is just all over the place. Really. I don't really have a, like a set. There's no plan with this brain of mine.
I don't know why I asked.
How can therapists and parents align their goals and expectations?
It's like sometimes I can do six sessions in a row and then sometimes it's like six minutes and I'm like, all right, speech dude needs a break.
That's true. It is. I feel like pretty inconsistent.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think that's what keeps me going because you just never know what you're going to get. It's
so fun being on our toes wandering.
Right, exactly. So yeah, Emily, how long have you been here? I don't even know that answer.
Four years. I actually typed it into the chronological age calculator because I... I don't know why I needed it, but four years.
What a tool.
Yeah. What a tool.
Yeah. So we invited Emily here, not just because she is therapist in our clinic. She's also a program advisor for our parent kind of division of inside out and this new free mini course that we're doing. Emily's helping a lot with, but I very specifically asked Emily to be involved in these projects and here today because she Of her ability to just work with parents and talk to parents. And I've said this to you so many times, like I think I've cried saying it to you too in the past, but Emily just such a compassionate, empathetic person. And it's just, there's such a huge counseling component and therapy, which we don't get trained on doing. And some people just naturally have that. And Emily's one of those people.
Thank you. Yeah, we cry during our meetings. Yeah, that's something I've grown to love in this job is just working with people. I mean, that's what it is when you zoom out of the goals and everything. It's people. And I'm just thankful to have this job where we get to- We're thankful
to have you. Thank
you. That's
right. So we wanted to talk today about the parents' role in therapy and I think what our goal of today was really to go beyond the conversations we hear over and over again, which is like, we need you to be trained in this because we only spend one hour a week with your son and you spend 24 hours a day with him or whatever. I'm thinking back, maybe you'll remember this. There was like an Instagram post, I think, where it was like, I would have white M&Ms and then like a red M&M. I don't know who posted it. It was a while ago, but it was like, this is the amount of time we spend with your child. Here's the amount of time you spend like a visual.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why is parent involvement crucial for successful speech therapy?
0:08–2:21
2
How can therapists and parents align their goals and expectations?
2:21–5:30
3
What practical strategies can parents use to reinforce therapy at home?
5:30–8:58
4
How did the pandemic change parent‑coach collaboration in speech therapy?
8:58–13:38
5
Why should expectations be removed when working with neurodivergent children?
13:38–17:29
6
What communication habits prevent mismatched therapy expectations?
17:29–21:37
7
How can families sign up for the free sensory communication mini‑course?
21:37–25:04
8
What are the key takeaways for parents and SLPs from this episode?
25:04–27:35
Speakers
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