

Benefits of Speech & Language Therapy in Natural Settings
In my practice in Tallahassee, Florida, I provide speech and language therapy in natural learning environments. Natural learning environments describe intervention that takes place in typical settings for infants and toddlers without disabilities (Paul & Roth, 2011). Natural learning environments include homes, daycares, and schools, as well as other settings where a child is found on a regular basis. In these environments, children are naturally learning about themselves and


Therapist to Parent & Back Again; Lessons Learned as an SLP Raising a Child with a Speech Impairment
The night before the scheduled surgery to place Pressure Equalization tubes in my daughter's ears, I sat and wondered, was I doing the right thing? I looked through the short list of words I had typed into my phone that she could say. There were 9 in all. Dada, Mama, kitty, me; they were good words, but at her age I knew, as a Speech-Language Pathologist, she should have more. For months before this night, my sweet baby had been caught in a vicious cyle of painful ear infecti