stay with me no offense but you look weird without makeup on You have doo (glue)? no glue-these are my nails. Chicken nuggets aren't real. Old...I mean 4! bug Are you having a baby? more graduate What would you eat if you could only eat one thing for the rest of your life? Lettuce. You would get diabetes eating pizza. This ball is BIG and this one is ___. cute. You broke my heart! Go speech room A high school student I have worked with since Freshman year is now going to graduate early this December... an insane amount of growth since he started and his mom gave me a really sweet shout out at his IEP. I have three AAC users who are loving to explore and find new icons of interest. One of my SIT students imitates all my facial expressions and I must always have surprised eyes haha. We got apps! (most of them...) Small victory - one of my DHH kiddos was finally placed at KSD which is where he needed to be since the beginning of the school year. I will miss him so much but happy-cried when this finally happened! We had a student move to the correct setting for his needs! It took 1.25 years to complete Oh YOU'RE Miss Kyra! She spells your name with her letters at home all the time! I have a student who is minimally speaking and she's working on expanding utterances. When we were walking through the gym she independently said because the students were running around really quickly. October IEP Month is OVER!! I officially dismissed my first kiddo! We had a with cupcakes. She didn't realize that meant she didn't get to come to my room anymore and was sad to find out but she asked to earn lunch with me soon! My non-verbal SAILS students got invited to the next level SAILS Halloween party. So wonderful to see how proud they were and how much fun they had. A kiddo with a slushy /s/ produced a perfect /s/ this week! We had two kiddos try a new eye gaze system with amazing results! Excited for the AAC devices my kids are using with help from Emily!! Got to attend LAMP training nothing is funny right now want Don't Break the Ice IEP Meetings are mainly done! Spent this morning working on programming first words on my student's LAMP device yesterday's conference was great! I am excited to get this up and running for her! My psych was able to visit in person this week! Students have been engaged and enjoying therapy. My students in SAILS 2 make me feel great every time I see them. my grad student from KU is incredible!! I had a student celebrate getting his /skw/ clusters. I'm sure I laughed at one point... I saw a kiddo at Quindaro tried LAMP he used two-word phrases in 5 minutes! I dismissed three kids last week and had one DNQ! Celebrated a SAILS student as EC Student of the Month Name what do you say? Thank you?? Dismissed an SLP only student! Love meeting all these new students and staff! Chiefs are going to the Super Bowl!!! Yea!!! I successfully had a student placement changed! We might be getting a hang of this leads thing! Maybe?? One of my students with CAS began speaking in sentences in the past two weeks. Teachers are doing pretty well at keeping AAC devices for specific students available and charged! Doing their best to learn and model too. A few of my SAILS students and I cleaned the teacher's lounge and had a blast. A minimally verbal friend hugged me whispered in my ear With the help of our audiologist and SLC Teacher one students is going to get tubes hearing aids!! At an IEP meeting at KCKECC I found parent who makes all cheez-its kids eat! 3rd grader told today.. Kids give best compliments. had a student ask as he tried pull on fingernails. said One received device hear. It's been year without it. Beautiful! Celebrating iPads for AAC systems no missed or edited logs this month (I hope)... Watching SLPAs start make connections between theory they've learned therapeutic practice. During group we were talking about witches vampires 5th graders said Things are hard but wouldn't do these hard things anywhere else! Several non-verbal using words! finally full access CompuSPED! am really enjoying hugs little waves from My kindergartner was originally refusing services now coming with enthusiasm extremely close his goal! Saw many former colleagues/classmates KSHA! CAS has communicating therapy session higher frequency. happy. love their enthusiasm. I'm still breathing. asked yesterday how old determine m&m's would him have 3 that carrying (a walking stick) plastic jar back forth bus daily week. He's very proud find! question least 10 times day same PreKs while being 9 months pregnant. low-language started independently requests her own! I've made great friends work. worked last SIT gets speech today. She working /k/ /g/ uses it conversation accurately! Many come school maintaining progress year!! Yay! Asked kid His response: first eval bilingual kindergartener. On OWLS prompted response It adorable! morning tell she remembered bring school. grad doing awesome! fifth-grade always so sound errors starting generalize conversation! week seeing decently smoothly! room referral mostly unintelligible able they dead body Schlagle week! Student performed bunched /r/ today isolation. proud! When getting attend session not only practiced target words peer's targets well--and correct (final consonants) Two notorious turning any work came show assignment helping them completed home ready be turned in! sequential selection 2 icons say Trunk Treat Friday speaking SAILS hyperlexic parents. hadn't met dad yet years served her when introduced myself OH MY GOSH! graduation celebrationgraduation kindergarten use device. He gestures lot things. will sign then waddle like penguin request game asking Kinder comprehension question didn't anything