[Quick Tip] Ready Set Connect...A Sneak Peek into My Best Selling Book
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What is the sneak‑peek preview of the new best‑selling book?
Today I am giving you a sneak peek inside of my book. You may know that this year I published a book, best-selling book, hit the top of the Amazon charts charts right after it was released. I was shocked, but I was thrilled because my only goal, as you guys know, is to spread neurodiversity affirming practices around the world. And this is just one more way to do that with so many tangible strategies and pieces of advice that you can take away when you read it, which is why we have so many people who are buying this book for their team or they're buying it for their child's teachers, lots of parents, lots of professionals. So today I'm going to read you the introduction so that you can get a feel for what this book is like.
What's up everyone and welcome to Making the Shift for Autistic Kids.
We're an SLP couple from California with four boys.
And we're here every week to bring you neuroaffirming tips, tricks, and tools. Are you ready to make the shift? Let's do this!
All right, so I'm so excited to share this with you guys today. I'm going to be reading the introduction of my book. I promise it's not long, it's only actually two pages. But this is a really This will give you really key insight into how my career got started and how I got into the field in the way that I am and became sensory trained in the way that I am. So I'm excited to share this with you. So here we go. This is the introduction of my book called Ready Set Connect, a sensory-based approach to accelerate communication in autistic children. I walked into the pastel yellow building on the corner of Adams Avenue in Los Angeles, right on the dot for my interview. I had arrived thirty minutes early and waited in my car until ten fifty nine AM to execute my perfectly timed eleven AM entrance.
How does the author’s career story begin with the first job interview?
I had just graduated with my bachelor's degree in communicative disorders, which put me on track to go to graduate school and become a speech language pathologist. But I'll be honest, I was not sold on the profession by any means. Anytime I observed sessions at our on-campus clinic, it just looked like the therapists were playing with the kids. Were they actually getting anything done? Didn't look like it. Given that I wasn't ready to commit to this profession, graduate school was out, but I had enough hours to apply for my speech language pathology assistant SLPA license and get my toes wet. Test it out and see what all the fuss was about. Plus, I had no other decent options. I decided I would get my assistant license and give that a go.
I moved out to Santa Monica into a high rise building that I wouldn't be able to afford long for without a job. I prepared my resume and cover letter and applied to every SLPA or related job I could find on this earth within a reasonable distance from Santa Monica. I blasted out my resume. Crickets. Right as I was going into panic mode, I heard back from a clinic. So here I am, a bright eyed, bushy-tailed twenty-two year old graduate with ill fitting business pants and virtually no relevant work experience on my very first big girl job interview. I walked into the clinic and was introduced to the clinic director. While giving me a tour of this massive multidisciplinary clinic, she pointed out what each room was for.
Here's our century gym, here's where we run social skills groups, and here are the rooms we use for speech therapy. We do floor time therapy in those rooms. Do you know what that is? Of course, the words spew out of me uncontrollably without a second passing, followed by immediate regret. Great, she seemed pleased. Because every therapist here also does floor time sessions. What is wrong with you? I think. Mental note, floor time therapy. You've got to remember that. We go back to her office and she sits down at her desk, signaling me to take a seat. Here's a printout to show you where we'd start you in terms of salary and what benefits we offer. You would be doing a combination of speech therapy, floor time therapy, and running social skills groups.
We'd love to offer you the job.
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