After nearly two decades as an early intervention child development specialist and former school social worker, Lynn Coyle-Handy’s changing careers and going back to college to become a school SLP—where she can shift her focus…
Posts tagged Speech-Language Pathology
Curing Autism Would Erase Me: Discouraging Ableism, Encouraging Advocacy
As a child, the world seemed so alien to me. For some reason, everyone else appeared to have an internal rulebook of norms that I didn’t. Eye contact felt extremely uncomfortable, but it was so…
Newly Installed Communication Board on Playground Encourages Inclusion
Communication is such an integral part of life, and for many, the ability to speak verbally can easily be taken for granted. Individuals with severe communication impairments may have difficulty with certain aspects of life—including…
Our Role as CSD Students in the Fight for Social Justice
Last year, if you’d asked me to picture a book club, I would’ve imagined a casual scene of friends getting together to discuss a new work of fiction. After hosting a NSSLHA chapter book club…