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4 I’s of Intervention: Identity For people who stutter, developing a healthy identity that includes their stutter can be a difficult process. A significant part of our roles as SLPs is to help our clients build an identity that includes their stutter in positive ways. 📢 Freedom of communication The pressure to appear fluent can lead to struggled speech, and it can also lead to self-stigma and guilt. As SLPs, we can lead our clients toward communication freedom in multiple ways, such as exploring voluntary or easy stuttering or disclosing their stutter in certain situations. 🩷 Acceptance of stuttering Years of conditioning to believe stuttering is wrong or bad can lead to a lack of self-acceptance. As SLPs, we can help facilitate the ongoing process of acceptance, a journey that often begins with resolving the inner conflict of trying to appear fluent. 🗣️ Embracing one’s authentic voice The process of embracing one’s authentic voice and showing oneself as a stutterer without guilt is often liberating for a stutterer. As SLPs, we can help validate and elevate stuttered voices, acknowledging that their voices matter. Tim McCarren, an Ally of Stuttering™ SLP who stutters, beautifully sums up this idea: “Every stutter I allow to be seen empowers me to love the whole of myself rather than parts of myself.” 💛 💛 💛 Become an ally and advocate for the stuttering community! Check the link in our bio for more ways to empower people who stutter through evidence-based research and approaches, continuing education opportunities, and community events for people who stutter, their families, and SLPs! #StutteringIntervention #SpeechTherapist #Stuttering #Stutter #SperoStuttering #AllyOfStuttering #SLPTraining #SpeechTherapy #CommunicationDisorders #SchoolSLP #PediatricSpeechTherapy #SpeechAndLanguage

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In 2022, the college launched the Mental Health and Well-Being Advocates—dedicated staff who are bringing about systems-level change—to address the needs of LSA students across all dimensions of well-being. Learn more: https://myumi.ch/AZ7me

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Foundations of Trauma in Early Years: Why It Really Matters. Have you noticed an increase in children struggles that don’t respond to your usual methods? What impact do you believe family and home life challenges are having on the children in your care? How confident does your team feel about understanding the ‘why’ behind the challenges? Understanding the impact of life experiences is essential to supporting a child's ability to fully engage in, and reach, their life and learning potential. Foundations of Trauma in Early Years is an exclusive, new No Pencil Required Trauma-informed training, specifically created for early years. This training provides you with the valuable insights and tools you need. Discover: - What behaviour really is and why all behaviour makes sense. - The impact of trauma and toxic stress on babies and young children's developing brains. - Felt safety; what is it, why is it important, and how do you do it. - Connection - delve into the realities of relational practice. - They're still not listening! Want to know why? I'll tell you. Plus more... Foundations of Trauma in Early Years Training is on Monday 20th January, 1pm-4pm. Sign up, secure your spot and start 2025 with a much needed fresh perspective. Becoming trauma-informed is essential for everyone working with and caring for children inn early years. #traumainformed #earlyyears #childdevelopment #behaviour #nurserymanagers #schools #childhoodtrauma #headteachers #earlyyearsteachers https://lnkd.in/eWUiCE3Z

Early Childhood Brain Development: The Foundation for Future Success Do you believe that schools have a responsibility to serve the larger community? In our technology age, we must get this message out to our communities so that children can have a solid foundation for their future. This means tending to their brain development before entering school.

Over the years, I’ve had a number of clients in the senior population, and one factor that sets them apart from their peers is their willingness to try new things, even when there’s no guarantee of success. Whether it's learning a new exercise, taking up a new sport, or teaching themselves a new skill, my older clients don't stop growing. This translates into 2 benefits that have direct correlation to increased longevity: - Continued purpose and drive. People who have things they want to do tend to stay healthier and stick around longer to do them - Neuroplasticity. Learning new skills - especially ones that don't come easily - helps build new neural pathways, staving off deterioration of the central nervous system The takeaway: having a strength training program that consistently challenges your brain and body can help you stay healthier for longer. Tag an older adult you know who thinks “you can't teach an old dog new tricks” #Neuroplasticity #LiveStrongLiveLong #LiveStrong #AgeGracefully

Foundations of Trauma in Early Years: Why It Really Matters. Have you noticed an increase in children's struggles that don’t respond to your usual methods? What impact do you believe family and home life challenges are having on the children in your care? How confident does your team feel about understanding the ‘why’ behind the challenges? Understanding the impact of life experiences is essential to supporting a child's ability to fully engage in, and reach, their life and learning potential. Foundations of Trauma in Early Years is an exclusive, new No Pencil Required Trauma-informed training, specifically created for early years. This training provides you with the valuable insights and tools you need. Discover: - What behaviour really is and why all behaviour makes sense. - The impact of trauma and toxic stress on babies and young children's developing brains. - Felt safety; what is it, why is it important, and how do you do it. - Connection - delve into the realities of relational practice. - They're still not listening! Want to know why? I'll tell you. Plus more... Foundations of Trauma in Early Years Training is on Monday 20th January, 1pm-4pm. https://lnkd.in/eWUiCE3Z Sign up, secure your spot and start 2025 with a much needed fresh perspective. Becoming trauma-informed is essential for everyone working with and caring for children inn early years. #traumainformed #earlyyears #childdevelopment #behaviour #nurserymanagers #schools #childhoodtrauma #headteachers #earlyyearsteachers

4 I’s of Intervention: INTENT When working with any client, the intent behind any strategy or technique explored should be clear. With the wrong intent behind the approach, SLPs can exacerbate stress and anxiety toward speaking, but with the proper intent and clear choices, people who stutter can approach daily situations with confidence. 💪 Empower clients When strategies are taught to "mask" stuttering or hide one's identity as a person who stutters, it generally does not lead the individual to communication freedom. As SLPs, we can explore strategies that empower individuals to speak freely, without masking or avoidance, instead of methods that aim to “fix” the stutter or disguise an individual’s voice. 🙌 Enable clients to approach words, people, and speaking situations with confidence and ease Pushing an individual outside of their comfort zone can be counterproductive, leading to further fear or anxiety when speaking. As SLPs, we can facilitate opportunities to gradually expand an individual’s comfort zone by taking risks with support little by little. 👀 Permit clients to show stuttering People who stutter may regularly feel restricted in their speech by the expectations of non-stutterers. The pressure to appear fluent can be damaging to their confidence. As SLPs, we have an opportunity to extend “permission” to stutter. Our approaches can help individuals understand that it’s okay to stutter, both in and out of the therapy room. With the proper intent and viable choices underpinning our approaches to stuttering, we can encourage and empower our clients to speak with freedom, confidence, and enthusiasm, bringing them a better quality of life every day. 💛 💛 💛 Become an ally and advocate for the stuttering community! Check the link in our bio for more ways to empower people who stutter through evidence-based research and approaches, continuing education opportunities, and community events for people who stutter, their families, and SLPs! #StutteringIntervention #SpeechTherapist #Stuttering #Stutter #SperoStuttering #AllyOfStuttering #SLPTraining #SpeechTherapy #CommunicationDisorders #SchoolSLP #PediatricSpeechTherapy #SpeechAndLanguage

Evidence from several studies and life stories of highly successful people show that the best time to learn the 'software' that enables one to find their unique voice is in one's childhood - primarily in the early childhood. Like the writer Stephen R. Covey asks: But what happens if people have bad early home lives and learn the software of victimism, scarcity, and the metastasizing cancers of competing, complaining, contending, comparing and criticizing? Could one's early home life take place at school? Could a teacher or a school administrator become a surrogate parent to perhaps compensate for the dysfunctionality of the home when the children are very young and impressionable and uncorrupted? Simply put, the job of a parent is a full time job. A tasking one at that. To be there when it matters for the children, you would have to miss out in a lot of things that do not contribute to make you a better parent. You would have to think more than you use to in order to provide the solution your child needs for the challenge that comes with every stage of their growth and development. Or at least identify appropriate support groups or resource person to guide you through. It is tremendously demanding on every of the resources available to you and that's okay. It's okay because that is exactly what raising a child who would recognize his voice needs to do so. The one who also gave you that child or children expects you to fulfill that role too - the role of refining the diamond He sent to your household. Mess up with this role and you will damage not just the child but straitjacket the healing the child ought to bring to his world. So, let's rise to becoming safe for our children and creating the right environment for them to thrive and find their voice in a noisy world 💪💪. The journey may be far, but the rewards if we do well would be worth every sacrifice we made along the line. #chiomaokoli #theexpectantparentacademy #earlyyearsparentcoach #pregnancycoach