Did you hear a pig?

For the therapy dimension of my clinical fellowship, I have been helping out with language lab at a preschool four days a week. This is without a doubt the highlight of my day. There is nothing more rewarding than stepping away from the hustle and bustle of the real world and stepping into the life a preschooler. As you well know, you can never predict what will come out of the mouth of a three year old or, in this case, what will come out of the nose. During snack time today, one of the little boys sneezed. With snot hanging from his nose, he looked at me as if to say "What now?" Normally, I would make the boy use his words to request a tissue, but this was a special case so I handed the boy a kleenex and told him to blow his nose. I watch as the boy puts the tissue to his nose, blows, and proceeds to loudly SNORT as he sucks air back into his nose in preparation for his next blow into the tissue. The sound caught everyone off guard. One small girl said it best with a questioning look on her face as she searched the classroom...."pig?" At least we've taught her something!

you can't escape tongue thrust!!!

I thought my extensive experience with tongue thrust was over, but boy was I wrong! I have a student that has been in speech for 3 years for probably every sound that can be produced with a lisp. No one has worked with her on it, or informed her (until me) that she is thrusting! Just when I thought I wouldn't work with tongue thrust in the schools... good thing I kept a copy of the program I used in school!
Miss all you ladies, and who all is going to TSHA?!?

TSHA Convention

If you still live in Texas...Chanan and I are trying to decide which hotel we are going to stay at for TSHA Convention. We are taking a poll...Where are you guys staying?? It would be kind of like old times. Let us know :)