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Your Parental Role An online speech therapy clinician helps your child to overcome her speech or language deficit. As a parent, you want to do everything you can for your child. So, the question is, what can you do to help to maximize those clinical sessions? The...

The Delicate Balance It can be risky for a therapist to provide feedback to a client regarding what areas need improvement, as it could easily be construed as criticism — ultimately alienating the client instead of bringing him closer to his therapeutic goals. And...

Stress is Bad, Right? The Downward Cycle of Stress The downward spiral of stress seems inevitable, but it doesn’t need to be. Two key elements of our stress response at play are how we view the challenging events in our lives and our somatic response to them. Most of...

SPED Students and The Pandemic are a Toxic Mix While the pandemic continues to take its toll on all of us, it has been especially taxing on students with disabilities. Their schedules have been turned upside down, safe places in their schools may be inaccessible, and...

Is it So Bad to Be Overly Positive? In March 2020, high school English teacher Irene Yannascoli entered a faculty meeting filled with bright decorations, icebreaker games, words of affirmation, and the screening of a TED talk titled “How to Make Stress Your Friend.”...

The Shock of Your Life One morning you receive a call from your son’s school principal. She tells you that your son has been involved in an incident and asks you to come in for a conference to speak with her, together with his teacher and the school counselor. As you...

The Breakthrough Study It used to be that, in traditional cultures around the world, parents would avoid praise. They were concerned that excessive praise would inflate the ego, making their children overconfident. But today, things have changed dramatically. There is...

A Quiet Problem That is Spinning Out of Control Teachers are forgoing their lunch breaks to cover unsupervised classrooms, monitor lunch lines, and become substitute bus drivers. Students are being subjected to longer bus rides and diminished lunch options. Principals...

Effective communication is at the core of the client-therapist relationship. If you’re having trouble getting through to a client, or have hit an impasse in your attempts to bond and communicate with your clients, don’t despair; there are several strategies you can...