“What the heck is your stupid book about?!!?” I’m sure some of you used even more choice language than that. I can hear the whole lot of you yelling from your computers and fancy smart phones as you are reading this. Well, I loved her before it as well, but I love her even more. She has been wonderful while I have been putting myself through this literary madness exercise. Yes, my wife deserves a trophy I dare say. And not only that, she’s let me write while taking the kids, doing dishes, putting up with me talking about nothing else, etc, etc. Yup, every single word, if you can believe it. She deserves me to finish this silly project of mine because bless her heart she has read every single word that I’ve written. I told my wife yesterday that she has permission to nag me to finish this. I’m not quite sure how it’s going to get there, but I’ll keep trudging along, just not at the same crazy intense pace that I have been doing for the last 30 days. Yet every good book needs three components, a beginning, a middle, and an end. Having had written over 150 word document pages means I have quite a bit of this novel written. That was my main goal, to have a completed first draft of my novel. And no, my story had not yet been concluded yet. I ended up with a word count yesterday of 83,100 words, so yes, according to NaNoWriMo I made it. Comment if you think I'm missing anything! Well, that seems really brief, but many of the other things I thought of mentioning seem too obvious and boring: taking data, dealing with different personalities or family. I try to switch activities every 10 minutes or so (but that can vary depending on their attention span). I let them know what we're working on and why. I like to keep things interesting and meaningful for them. Then as we get going on our therapy tasks, I try to remember that if I'm bored, so is the patient. This may seem obvious, but sometimes it's easy to skip this stuff when you get into automatic mode. Before I just jump in and start drilling them I want to see how they've been since our last session, how they're feeling, if they think speech therapy is helping, if they understand what we're working on, if they did any The Session: I personally like to start sessions by asking a few questions first. Hope it helps! Feel free to add your own comments and advice! My previous post covered "Planning." This one's going to be about carrying out the session itself. SUPERDUPER FREE CEUS HOW TOWell, if you've been following the blog, you kow that a few new SLPs or grad student readers have asked some specific questions re: how to get things started.
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