Level Up Your Practice: Effective Strategies for Planning Your PD

by Ishwari Samarakoon | April 15, 2024 | Career, The Speechie Life Blog

Ongoing learning is so important.  Some of us are naturally born learners. Others of us have less of a hunger but still value it. We are constantly told in Speech Pathology that we need to upskill, keep on top of evidence based practice and have ongoing learning to...

Niching vs. Generalisation – The Impact on Your Skills and Confidence

by Ishwari Samarakoon | April 8, 2024 | Career, The Speechie Life Blog, Work-Life balance

Are you a therapist who feels the deep need to work across the lifespan?  Or do you feel the need to be able to work with any client who gets referred to you, whether that’s early language, fluency, speech sounds, literacy, AAC etc? Are you a therapist who feels bad...

Resources Overload: Stop the Buying Fenzy and Save Money

by Ishwari Samarakoon | April 1, 2024 | Career, The Speechie Life Blog

Are you overwhelmed by the amount of resources you have or are available to you? Do you feel FOMO when scrolling Instagram or Tik-Tok and seeing Speech Pathologists use a resource you don’t have? It’s so easy to fall into the trap of needing more. We can always...

Let’s talk about how to avoid getting triggered as a Speech Pathologist

by Ishwari Samarakoon | March 18, 2024 | Career, The Speechie Life Blog

Triggers. We all have them. Some are obvious. Some less so. And some are completely hidden until poked and by then it’s too late. Do you have a client, a parent, a work colleague, another member of your team, or a supervisor who presses your buttons? And because you...

Let’s Talk About the Invisible Work we do as Speech Pathologists

by Ishwari Samarakoon | March 11, 2024 | Career, The Speechie Life Blog

Do you feel like you are never doing enough? I know I do.  There is always so much more I can learn, systems that I could generate to make work faster, or handouts I could create for parents, teachers and others on my kiddos team. Often all this thought and work goes...

Fearless Asking: How to Get What You Want at Work Without Dreading It

by Ishwari Samarakoon | March 4, 2024 | Career, Hard conversations, The Speechie Life Blog

Are you looking to ask for a promotion? Or a pay rise? Maybe you want to negotiate your duties. Or you are looking to get more PD paid for or drop a day of work. Whatever it is that you are looking to ask for, it can fill you with dread and worry. You know you need to...