By: Sarah Guigneaux, MS, CCC-SLP, QOM

Cafe TSHA is an initiative of the TSHA Publications Board. Levity Lounge is a walk on the lighter side. Tips for Tx offers clever hacks to up your therapy game. Tech Bytes covers new and noteworthy technology finds. Student Swap provides student-focused ideas and inspiration. Wellness Corner emphasizes self-care for service providers. We encourage you to submit your ideas to publications@txsha.org for consideration for publication in future issues. 

Tips for Tx

Daily notes are essential to our data collection to ensure clients are making progress and to adjust our methods if they are not. PowerDiary shares some excellent guidance on best practices to improve your subjective, objective, assessment, and plan (SOAP) notes.

Tech Bytes

Are you looking for new apps to change up your speech therapy activities and reinforcers? SLPNow has created a great list to help you get some new ideas for summer speech therapy or to prepare for the following year.

Student Swap

Congratulations to all of the speech-language pathology and audiology students who have graduated and are ready to start their internship year! You are joining an extraordinary field through which you will change the lives of thousands of people. Haley gives terrific advice on finding your first job and some great questions to ask during your interview.

Wellness Corner

Across the lifespan, speech-language pathologists and audiologists advise their clients’ caregivers about the signs and symptoms of caregiver fatigue. The Mayo Clinic shares excellent information and support for caregiver fatigue or stress. Most importantly, whether you are the caregiver or the provider, it is essential to recognize that you are not alone.

Levity Lounge

“I was born to be a speech-language pathologist. To teach, to love, to guide, to encourage. It is who I am. It is my passion and my calling.” —Shannon from Speechy Musings