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💙 You deserve a gift this Speech-Language-Hearing Month!
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Hi Reader, May is National Speech-Language-Hearing Month. And maybe that means your workplace gives you a shout-out or a cookie 🍪, but maybe you've thought: To celebrate you and your incredible work, we’re offering you a FREE 3-week trial (no credit card needed) PLUS $10 off the Virtual Rehab Center, making your first month 50% off the regular price. This is a limited-time offer just for SLPs in May! That's 7 weeks of access for just $10! 🤯 The Virtual Rehab Center is accessible from any device with a web browser and includes: 💻 Evidence-based, functional therapy activities
Now is the perfect time to explore the Virtual Rehab Center designed by SLPs for SLPs. Thanks for all the work you do to support your patients. Here’s to better outcomes, less draining paperwork, and more empowered therapy. 🥂 You deserve it! All the best, -Megan P.S. Please share this coupon with a friend or colleague who also appreciates how technology can make work easier and benefit our patients. MaySLP10 - put it in when you sign up! Fine print: Coupon is valid until May 31, 2025 and must be entered at the time of sign-up. Values in this email are in USD. Coupon value adjusts in CAD, GBP, and AUD to make the first month 50% off. Annual plan members will have the value deducted from the first year. |
Megan @ Tactus Therapy
I'm a speech-language pathologist & co-founder of Tactus. Tactus offers evidence-based apps for aphasia therapy and lots of free resources, articles, and education - like this newsletter. Sign up to get my updates 1-2 times a month.
About six years ago, I published a short e-book called Setting Goals in Aphasia Therapy. This 11-page PDF has been downloaded more than 11,500 times. 🤯 Apparently, lots of SLPs want help writing goals! 🙋♀️ One page of the e-book is a template for writing SMART goals, the kind payors want to see. Goals need to be specific, measurable, relevant, and time-bound so we know when they’ve been achieved. ✅ The template asks you helpful questions… but sometimes what you really need are ideas for what...
I saw this post recently from an SLP who described feeling so “on” all day: back-to-back patients, constant talking, cueing, thinking, modeling. By the time she got home, she couldn’t even bring herself to speak. 😩 If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone. In a 2024 survey, 62% of SLPs reported symptoms of burnout. In medical settings, we can see 8, 9, 10 patients a day. There’s no built-in quiet time. No pause between sessions. Being fully “on” for hours straight takes a toll. We were...
After an acquired brain injury, subtraction often breaks down before addition. Not because it’s “harder math," but because it tends to place greater demands on working memory and executive function (Dehaene et al., 2003). Try this in your head: Most people get this quickly. 5 tens plus 7 ones = 57. Let's do another: This time, you have to hold 40 in your mind, subtract 10, then subtract 7 - mentally tracking each step to get 23. Same numbers. Different cognitive load. That extra mental...