Written by John Ellis, Director, Mecklenburg County CDSA Take a look at this cartoon – cute, right? Look a little closer…what do you see? Does the chaos jump out at […]
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Is There an App for That?
Written by Sarah Midgett, Speech-Language Pathologist, Mecklenburg County CDSA Technology. It is all around us. Our world is rapidly becoming pixilated and industrialized, online and plugged in. School systems are issuing iPads and […]
Taking It Off the Runway… It’s an Interaction Style, Not a Model – A Table Talk Wednesday Recap
Written by Julie Higginbotham, Senior Case Coordinator, Mecklenburg County CDSA At this month’s Table Talk Wednesday event, we focused on Coaching as an interaction style. Coaching is a way to interact with […]
What Routine? – A Table Talk Wednesday Recap
Written by Julie Higginbotham, Senior Case Coordinator, Mecklenburg County CDSA Well, folks, we had another amazing Table Talk Wednesday event here in Mecklenburg County, and this time, we met to discuss […]
Top Ten Things for New Providers to Know
Written by Elaine Aldridge, Provider Contract Coordinator, Mecklenburg County CDSA So the Service Coordinator (SC) is going to come to one of your intervention sessions…what’s a provider to do? Not […]
My Personal Evolution as an Early Intervention Therapist – Announcing the Much-Deserved Retirement of Mr. Potato Head
Written by Wendy Teal, Speech-Language Pathologist, Pediatric Theraplay, Inc. When I first started providing “natural environment” speech therapy, it looked a lot different from the model we have evolved to […]
Problems Vs. Opportunities
Written by Vicki Anderson, Speech-Language Pathologist, Mecklenburg County CDSA Coming up with practical, functional outcomes with families is a continual balancing act of meeting the family where they are and […]