Laura

School-Based Pediatric SLP focusing on AAC 📱 🗣️ | Lifeguard Instructor & Swim Instructor 🏊‍♀️

[Laura @MissLauraSLP]

Reminder: if a person claiming to treat communication disorders or do speech therapy is not licensed as a Speech-Language Pathologist by their state, they are not qualified and are practicing illegally. No other profession is qualified. There is no quick certificate program.

[Carl Hendrick @C_Hendrick]

Re memory: you can't connect the dots if you don't have any dots.

[Laura @MissLauraSLP]

I've been in aquatics too long to ever own my own pool. Too dangerous.

[Laura @MissLauraSLP]

"To stay or to go" (NY) is vastly superior phrasing to "for here or to go" (nowheresville). Stay and go are natural opposites and we've got parallel structure with two infinitives. I don't understand how "for here" could have possibly even come about to begin with.

[turing_hamster @turing_hamster]

society is gaslighting kids into thinking that classic literature is boring

the #1 thing that makes a kid hate classic literature is not that it's boring

it's when a kid lacks the skills and knowledge to comprehend it

classic literature does not just mean old literature. it means literature that was so good that it stood the test of time and is still talked about today (the lindy effect)

[Laura @MissLauraSLP]

@goodreads Why? For an emoji-riddled gush-fest that just regurgitates the synopsis? And then they give 5 stars because they got the book free and they want more free books.

[Laura @MissLauraSLP]

Let's get this shit straight. Men didn't "give women their rights." Men forcibly deprive women of their natural rights as beings through systematic oppression due to womb envy. Women fought for their rights to be reinstated against men who enjoyed denying them (and still do).

[Freyy @Freyy_is]

the em dash is no longer the clearest sign of ai-generated writing.

honestly? it’s this.

[Laura @MissLauraSLP]

@anenglishteachr Prosody!

[Laura @MissLauraSLP]

I'm seeing a lot of people mixing up their negatives like this and saying the opposite of what they intend.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

A lot of the emails I get from founders are now written in a hard-hitting journalistic style. I know they're written by AI, because no founder ever wrote this way before. And once you realize something is written by AI, it's hard not to ignore it.

[Laura @MissLauraSLP]

@tetheredtoed1 The bottom two are for the speech cloffice that used to be a janitor's closet but now houses the tech infrastructure because a whole table doesn't fit.

[Laura @MissLauraSLP]

Give someone with a GED a 40-hour online class and suddenly they're "qualified" to "teach language."

[Laura @MissLauraSLP]

ABA doesn't teach language.

[Eclectic Catholic @EclectiCatholic]

@KelseyTuoc It sounds crazy, but for some kids they really do benefit from 6-8 hours a day. The reason is that the core symptoms of autism mean they don't learn from their natural environment the way neurotypical kids do. Instead they need 1:1 support to learn language, play skills, etc.

[Laura @MissLauraSLP]

ABA is either abuse or insurance fraud. Usually both.

[Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc]

I don't think that severely autistic kids benefit from 8hrs/day of intensive ABA therapy. I do think that *parents* of severely disabled children benefit a ton from respite care, but if you bill it as babysitting you can't bill $100/hour.

[Laura @MissLauraSLP]

@EricLevitz My current AI pet peeve is, "And honestly?"

[Laura @MissLauraSLP]

You highlight and underline by printing it out and highlighting, underlining, and handwriting notes so you actually retain the information.

[indianamal @profpookie]

i had a student last year who did not know how to download a pdf from the course website and open it to read at a later time; thus he also did not know how to highlight and underline on said pdf. there's an actual crisis too few are willing to acknowledge, much less address.

[Laura @MissLauraSLP]

@LaNoireDe I'd be surprised to find anyone thinks 20+ isn't doable. I have seen people claim to read 700+ and, I must say, that strikes me as strange, to say the least.

[Gaius Konstantine @GaiusKonstantin]

@AuthorJannyB @eugenejohnson_ Never needed to. Didn't study much either, just a sponge for information. It drove many of my teachers nuts.

[Janet W. Butler @AuthorJannyB]

@eugenejohnson_ It honestly never occurred to me to cheat. I knew it was wrong, and that was all there was to it.

[Laura @MissLauraSLP]

Actually, acknowledge that SLPs and OTs are superior to teachers in general. They know nothing and they get to just cherry pick which of our evidence-based recommendations they want to use or discard based on whims. Admin will always support the teacher, never the student.

[Laura @MissLauraSLP]

Also, acknowledge that alternate route teachers are unprepared. As an SLP, I'm tired of having to take into consideration the opinion of someone who has no knowledge on which to base their opinion.

[Jen @jenteach13]

You want to fix education?

Pay teachers more.

[Laura @MissLauraSLP]

Amazing the people who say it's impossible to notice and remember plate numbers. The great divide is really between the good memories and the poor ones. (These were presumably in front of the same house with no front plate on either car.)

[Bob Lonsberry @BobLonsberry]

Running through Buffalo today, I noticed this rare phenomenon.