We've all been there. Maybe you spent hours planning the "perfect" therapy idea, and it just blew up in your face. Maybe one your students reminded you, in case you forgot, that you always need to stay on your toes. Even the most experienced SLP has an "oops" moment from time to time. I'll start by sharing one of mine. I was a new graduate and working my CFY position. I was working in an outpatient setting, and had a patient scheduled who had already had an eval completed. As is usually the case, instead of the evaluation being mailed in beforehand, I had a whole 30 seconds to read up on the patient while also doing a meet and greet. I saw he had a target to produce /s/ words, so I thought, "Great! I actually have materials for this!" (This was in my pre-TPT days, when I barely knew how to do anything on my computer beyond online shopping.) We sat down, I let him pick out a game, and I explained to him that he was to say three words before each tu...
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