Once I was working with a little boy and had the most hilarious exchange. I jotted down everything he said after, and I just found this and thought I’d share.
“You know, you should do something about your arms.”
“What do you mean?”
“You’re pretty and nice but your arms…are so hairy.”
(I couldn’t say anything because I was cracking up)
“If you leave them like that…nobody will want…to catch you…like to get married.”
“I am married.”
“You are????”
“Yep.”
“Ew.”
I feel a little bad for any non SLP readers (do I have nonSLP readers?) for all the SLPeepGame posts on twitter. Also, I didn’t realize until the game was complete exactly how hard the game was…….so in the interest of “upping the ante” I have sweetened the pot. The lucky winner will receive 1) a year’s subscription to Lesson Pix 2) an app from Verbally App and 3) these ndnspeechmom approved earlobe decorations!
Please note: these are indeed sweet but I have no idea how they taste
I know right? Awesome. Please feel free to PLAY THE GAME and don’t worry, comments are screened so nobody can see your answers. And to anyone who does not like/wear earrings…I’m fairly sure you could find these a home.
Note: the techie prizes were both donated independently, and although I have not tried either product I am sure they are amazing. Questions about the app and the subscription are best asked of the very generous, extremely attractive and utterly brilliant @VerballyApp and @LessonPix. I’m so pleased that they not only donated prizes to the game but submitted pictures for it as well.
You dear reader are invited to become part of an elite organization of communication specialists. The Speech Justice League is an international group of SLPs fighting against evil and all things leading to poor communication.
We also enjoy pie and long walks on the beach.
This marks the beginning of a new day in this organization…the coveted SJL Blog Award!
The first recipients of this coveted award are:
I invite them to post the above badge on the sidebar of their blog and grant them the power to bestow a SJL blog award to a fellow deserving SLP blogger. In addition, I ask that the recipients post their SLP superstrengths. This blog award is done in fun. The “official” SJL website is housed on the Home Speech Home website.
Thank you to everyone that submitted their picture and facts for the game. I have had an awesome time looking at everyone’s pictures and learning a little more about all of you. Now for the explanation. The childhood pic will be posted with the five facts; the object of the game is to match the childhood pic with the corresponding SLPeep.
THE PRIZES – Yes, I said prizes, as in plural. I am happy to say that I have had 2 fabulous prizes donated for the winner of the game. The first is an app from @VerballyApp and the second is a gift certificate to @LessonPix !! I’d like to thank them for their generous donations and I encourage everyone to explore their products. Personally I can’t wait to get an iPad so I can try all the iPad only apps. In addition there is also a prize of a pair of beaded earrings.
The Winner will be the person who identifies the most correct SLPeeps by Friday evening (winner announced Saturday Feb 11.) Good luck everyone!
Please match the following SLPeeps (and honorary SLPeeps) with the childhood photos below. I have provided a link to each twitter page so you can get hints from their avatar (if you need help) and also so you can follow any that you are not currently following. I am hoping that this game will be fun…it will definitely be challenging since we have 26 participants!! Let’s MEET THE SLPEEPS!!!! (I totally did a ring announcer voice when I typed that.)
- @SLPtanya
- @txthreads
- @dibsondebs
- @alour
- @speechykeenSLP
- @Deb_SLP
- @cmcniece
- @SpeechTherapist
- @atomiclemonade
- @2gals
- @a yellowshred
- @mtmarySLP
- @slotaag
- @adaoust13
- @zealousidler
- @MeganPanatier
- @shireeheath
- @kirsten_lana
- @TriniSLP
- @OliviaSLP
- @lessonpix
- @dmiller92000
- @atklingensmith
- @VerballyApp
- @chaisabel
- @speechtechie
SLPEEP #1 is @MtMarySLP: 1) Left handed 2) Lived in a tipi for one summer 3) Taught classical ballet 4)Worked for both Hallmark Cards corporate office and the American Academy of Nursing for over a year as a
SLPEEP #2 is @alour : 1) Grew up, went to undergrad and grad school, and now lives, all in the same area. 2) Wanted to be a SLP since Grade 10 3) found out about SLPs by reading in a University pamphlet and instantly knew 4) Loves hockey 5) Has a small art obsession
SLPEEP #3 is @LessonPix : 1) Is not an SLP 2) Can read/write IPA 3) Has been caught on video abusing the voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant 4) Married to a great Special-Ed Pre-K Teacher 5) Does not read directions
SLPEEP #4 is @cmcniece : 1) Hates chocolate 2) Played goalkeeper on the soccer team in high school 3) Choked on/Swallowed a pen cap at age 13 and also learned that it takes ~48 hours for a pen cap to pass through the digestive system. 4) Love of neckties began at an early age. 5) Can
SLPEEP #5 is @OliviaSLP : 1) Boulders for fun (extreme sport version of rock climbing) 2) Plays the piano. 3) Had blonde hair until 17. 4) Has a show. 5) Has extremely flexible thumbs.
SLPEEP #6 is @2gals : 1) Loves to travel. 2) Has degree in Interior Design in addition to Speech Therapy degree. 3) Is an optimist. 4) Is adventurous. 5) Has a voice disorder.
SLPEEP #7 is @MeganPanatier : 1) Loves singing to cats and children. 2) Studied communication disorders & sciences at CSUN, but languages & linguistics at UCSC. 3) Prefers Android over Apple. 4) Has one sister who happens to be an amazing chef. 5) Middle name is Michelle.
SLPEEP #8 is @kirsten_lana : 1) Grew up in NY. 2) Favourite food is watermelon. 3) Started drinking coffee at 5 years old. 4) Favourite book is This Is Where I Leave You. 5) Really, really, really hates marshmallows.
SLPEEP #9 is @Deb_SLP : 1) Has two tattoos. 2) Will try nearly anything once, maybe twice. 3) Makes sleeping with a CPAP machine look sexy. 4) Really does laugh out loud. 5) When she was nine, she cut her own bangs to look like Alissa Milano on Who
SLPEEP #10 is @SpeechyKeenSLP : 1) Became an SLP when a professor ignited his/her passion for language development and coaxed him/her out of his/her teaching based degree program. 2) Born dead, doctors said baby was cognitively impaired and would not make it past a 4th grade education. 3) Has experienced wild fires, tornados, hurricanes, earthquakes and a spewing volcano. 4) Has an entire craft store in the home office 5) Recently spent a Christmas in Egypt
SLPEEP #11 is @TriniSLP : 1) Quite artistic, draws all artic pictures for clients. 2) Favourite food is anything shrimp. 3) Played field hockey in high school. 4) Has a passion for educating parents re: language stimulation techniques especially for children with ASD. 5) Gave birth to my 2nd son over the toilet bowl at home (not a planned home birth) just didn
SLPEEP #12 is @atklingensmith : 1) Is one of ten children. 2) Went into this field b/c of a combination of experiences working with individuals with disabilities during high school, several siblings having communication disorders, an aunt and uncle being Deaf, and just an overall interest in the field! 3) Breakfast foods (especially anything involving real maple syrup) are a guilty pleasure.4) Went to Nazareth College (Rochester, NY) for undergrad and am in the middle of grad school there now. 5) Just started a blog and would love everyone to check it out.
SLPEEP #13 is @ShireeHeath : 1) Knows Australian Sign Language. 2) Sometimes serves beer at a bar called ‘The Zoo’. 3) Loves brains. 4) Has a shark phobia. 5) Secretly likes country music.
SLPEEP #14 is @adaoust13 : 1) Was a member of a roller racing team. 2) Favourite breed of cat is an Abbysinnian. 3)Hates spiders and snakes. 4) School nickname was Chopper. 5) Fave authors are Stephen King and Shakespeare.
SLPEEP #15 is @ayellowshred : 1) Has a pet hedgehog. 2) Loves horror movies. 3) Has been skydiving. 4) Favourite clinical area is medically complex children. 5) Hasn
SLPEEP #16 is @slotaag : 1) Lived in Germany for six years. 2) Used to be a sea kayak guide on Lake Superior. 3) Loves gnomes. 4) never seen the following movies: Dirty Dancing, Grease or the Star Wars series. 5) If allowed could eat own weight in Thai food.
SLPEEP #17 is @zealousidler : 1) Born in NYC. 2) Lived in Texas for 8 years but never visited Mexico. 3) Has been a vegetarian for 11 years. 4) Can play guitar, some piano, and some fiddle. 5) SLP2B interested in AAC . . . and everything else.
SLPEEP #18 is @dmiller92000 : 1) Favourite place travelled to is Tibet. 2) Grand Canyon literally took her breath away. 3) Next place on travel list is Hawaii. 4) Has two boys, 2 years and 4 years. 5) 15th yr as a school based SLP. (Did 3 years in a rehab setting prior.)
SLPEEP #19 is @txthreads : 1) Loves to bake, would love to be a professional pastry chef. 2) Has moved many times but is not from a military family, 3) Would love to be a preschool craft teacher. 4) Been told I could survive well following a horrible disaster – can garden,raise (and butcher) animals, build, scavenge, cook, weave, sew. 5) Loves to dance.
SLPEEP #20 is @atomiclemonade : 1) From a tiny town with about 700 people and would have graduated with 19 people if high school had not closed. 2) Had a raccoon named Rascal. 3) Loves working as a speech therapist in a school, but would also like to dabble in rehab once CCCs are obtained. 4) Favourite food would be homemade guacamole. 5) Would love to go to Egypt and visit the pyramids.
SLPEEP #21 is @SpeechTherapist : 1) Learned to ride a bicycle at 10. 2) Most exotic meat ever eaten is ostrich, 3) Favourite TV show ever is Northern Exposure. 4) Wants to go back to grad school to study neuroscience. 5) Loves drinking tea and watching movies.
SLPEEP #22 is @SpeechTechie : 1) Currently prefers iBooks app. 2) Currently obsessed with Downton Abbey. 3) Deathly afraid of heights, which becomes a problem on convention center escalators. 4) Never could tell what the hell was going on in videofluroscopies, so avoids dysphagia. 5) Spent a mortifying year with Mom as 8th grade teacher, followed by having an Annie Glenn Award-Winning NKOTB as a classmate.
SLPEEP #23 is @VerballyApp : 1) Parents were born and raised in Hawaii. 2) Works for her brother in law -- for free. 3) Met her husband at the University of Illinois. 4) Thinks rice krispie treats are the perfect food. 5) Her in-laws all live in the bay area, and she lives on the exact opposite coast.
SLPEEP #24 is @chaisabel : 1) Mommy of a 4 year old boy. 2) Lives in the Carribean. 3) Is addicted to chocolate. 4) Is a school based SLP. 5) Sister is a SLP too!
SLPEEP #25 is @SLPtanya : 1) Has had two different Grammy winners for dinner at their house. 2) Helped produce at TV show at 5. 3) Hates coffee but favourite chocolate is a coffee cream. 4) Decided to be a SLP final year of high school. 5) Was a very picky eater as a child but love all different kinds of food now and am now fairly adventurous.
SLPEEP #26 is @dibsondeb : 1) Has foodgasms in the grocery store. 2) Loves Big Bang Theory. 3)Avid reader of paranormal romances. 4) Thinks sushi and dark chocolate are fabulous. 5) Not a neat freak.
Thanks for playing and good luck! Leave your guesses in a comment and EVERYONE is allowed to play INCLUDING those who submitted pictures. Please give it a try, VerballyApp and LessonPix really donated some wonderful prizes (that I wish I could keep!)
Most correct out of 26 by Friday night wins…will call contest early if someone gets all 26. Comments will be screened so nobody will see your guesses.
***Guesses in the following format please: SLPeep #30 is @ndnspeechmom
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As I hope most of you know, I am a Speech Pathologist and an avid twitter user. On twitter there is an active group called the SLPeeps. There is also another group calledthe SLPs2B. (I hope I got the acronym correct.) Not so long ago when there were not many of us on “the twittah” it was easier to keep track of everyone; from where they were located, to personal interests, areas of professional expertise, etc. etc. Now that we have had a recent influx of SLPeeps I find myself losing track of everyone.
Previously we played a SLPgame where we guessed each others accents while reading the rainbow passage. It was fun (well I thought it was fun) and several participated. I have an idea for a new game which will allow us to learn more about each other, both the original and the new members.
If all interested SLPeeps (and SLP2B) would please email a childhood (baby through high school) picture of themselves along with 5 fun facts to ndnspeechmom@gmail.com they can be part of the game. The facts can be anything from fav food, origin, area of professional interest, professional accomplishments, and fun random personal factoids.
The idea of the game is to guess which twitter handle goes with which pic/fun facts.
I will be posting the game on friday for guesses and I will try think of a prize. Please play!! You have until friday morning to email me your entry, and those entered can still guess.
Example:
1)raised on a reservation in Canada 2) fav show is Criminal Minds 3) works with First Nation children 4) livetweeted through her last labour and delivery 5) loves bacon
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Tan’si! Hi….this feels awkward only because I haven’t posted in so long. I obviously missed the obligatory “Merry Christmas” and “Happy New Year” posts but I hope you all had a great holiday. Now that we are well into the new year our lives are all returning to normal. Thank goodness. 2012. I thought for sure I would have a jetpack by now.
I was having coffee with my dad the other day and he was looking through the pictures on my laptop of my children over the holidays. He told me how lucky they are to have so many pictures from their childhood. He said he only has a few baby pictures of himself and I mentioned that I had a couple that I found online. He stared at me blankly and I reminded him that I had told him about it over a year ago. He continued to stare at me so I directed him to this website and showed him this picture. The caption of the picture (from a newspaper at the time) was
“Santa Visits Indian Kiddies at North Battleford.”
- Can you guess which one is my dad?
He was completely stunned. He stared at the picture for the longest time and named all the other boys without reading the caption below it. He laughed and told me, “We even rounddanced for him. That was a nice day.” My dad was sick a lot as a child, and spent quite a bit of time in the hospital. He told me that was why he was only in residential school for a year, he was taken out and put in the hospital . Maybe being sick saved him from years and years in residential school like my mother had to attend.
I thought of this picture not only because it pertained to Christmas but because I watched 8th Fire – Indigenous in the City on CBC last night, hosted by Wab Kinew. It is a powerful 4 part documentary that I hope has inspired conversations today. View it here if you missed it last night. Please watch it and share the link. Talk about it as well. I loved it. I’m anxious to see the next part and I can’t wait until my children are old enough to discuss it with me. I myself am not an urban Indian. (Yes, I just said Indian instead of native, but that is my right. I was Indian as a child and in my own head I still use the term. This however doesn’t mean I appreciate others using it in a derogatory manner.) I grew up on Thunderchild First Nation and only left for university. Now I find myself living in a small town 10 minutes from my rez, it is not a city but this program resonated with me. Living in town is so different. I have neighbors, I can hear vehicles that are not coming to visit…it isn’t quiet and still like I am used to.
I’m fortunate in that I know what it is like to grow up with my traditions, I was always proud but I wanted more. I hungered for something I didn’t quite understand. I always wanted to be “better,” to be “more,” to be “successful.” I don’t even know where those desires came from, or where or if I even heard them expressed aloud by an adult. As a child I loved to write, sing in talent shows, dance pow wow and enjoyed performing in plays…but I always knew I was going to university, because I had to. My parents pushed me towards education, telling me it was my future and that it was the ONLY path I could consider for my future.
As you know I am now a Speech Pathologist. Currently I am the only native SLP in my home province of Saskatchewan. I’ve had people ask me why I choose to live here, why I don’t take my degree and go to the city. Clearly these people do not understand me. I might only be 10 minutes from my rez, but it feels farther. I don’t know that I could move farther because my heart is there. I love to travel and have not done it much lately but I want to be able to see the world, go to the city and then come home. It grounds me. It heals me. It is me.
(btw the boy with the biggest smile closest to Santa is my dad Gordon Angus)
