How to SLP: SLP Skills

Meet Cristina Ramos and Rene Robles, two longtime speech-language pathologists and the founders of Five Oaks Speech Therapy Services in California. During this week’s episode, these two walk us through how they met and why they decided to pursue speech pathology in the first place.

Today’s episode features an SLP who has a passion for dysphagia!  Wanting to further collaborate with others who share his passion in dysphagia, he started a Facebook Dysphagia Journal Club and in 3 days, had over 1800 members join!  Here is his story on why Dysphagia Journal Clubs are so important in keeping current in our practice as SLPs and how to start one.

Hello, and welcome to “The Missing Link for SLPs” podcast. Today's episode starts the first in a series called “Hey Professor.” I'm calling it that because I can't tell you the number of times I'll be walking down the hallway and the student will run up behind me, “Hey, Professor, one more quick question!”

These are five surprising skills that speech pathologists need for our unknown future, because life is hard. Being an SLP can be hard as well. I believe we all entered graduate school with “stars in our eyes”, just dreaming of becoming a speech pathologist. yet here we are in reality.

Welcome to Episode Seven, where we talk about the six must have skills that slps need for surviving COVID-19. So in this episode, we're going to be talking about more resilience techniques, strategies, mindsets outlooks.

In this episode of ​The Missing Link for SLPs​ podcast, I want to describe to you ​how my day's playout as a medical speech pathologist in a variety of different settings.

iframe class="castos-iframe-player" src="https://5e64057ae19640-95062121.castos.com/player/164056" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" width="100%" height="150"> In this first full episode, I want to talk about what a medical SLP is. A lot of my students will ask me, what's the difference between a medical SLP and a school-based SLP? Who do you work with? What are your days like? So, I want to share with you some of the fun times I've had, and not so fun times that I've had, over my career as a medical SLP.