Difficulty professional conversations: tips to help control emotions
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Difficult professional conversations: tips to help control emotions

ByDavid Kinnane

Many Speech Language Pathologists in private practice are people pleasers, overworked and under-resourced. Disagreements about priorities, caseloads, workloads and feedback are inevitable. They can feel threatening and stressful.  When threatened, many of us switch to “fight or flight” mode, making it hard to think rationally and professionally. We can implement strategies to interrupt this physical…

Professionalism in private practice
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For speech pathologists in private practice, professionalism has never been more important

ByDavid Kinnane

For Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) in private practice, professionalism has never been more important. Here’s why: “Professionalism” is a combination of knowledge, skills, trustworthiness, and altruism found in those who commit themselves to a life of service to others.  Because of our knowledge and expertise, SLPs have social prestige, asymmetrical power over clients and families, and…

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