The Trauma-Informed SLP

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In this episode, I unpack why questioning facilitated communication variants is not the same as being ableist. I talk through the difference between respecting lived experience and still asking for authorship testing, independent access, and evi...

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Have you ever seen an SLP influencer's post and immediately felt like everything you’re doing is wrong? 

In this episode, I react to a CF-SLP who’s overwhelmed by all the “this is harmful” and “you’re doing it wrong” takes—and unpack what’s actu...

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In this episode, Janyce and Kim continue their conversation about the old and new forms of facilitated communication (e.g., letterboards, spelling-to-communicate, rapid prompting method) and telepathy claims in non-speaking autistic people.

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In this first part of a two-episode interview, trauma-informed speech-language pathologist Kim Neely speaks with Janice Boynton—artist, educator, and former speech clinician—about her firsthand experience using facilitated communication (FC) in ...

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Here's my truama-informed critique of the Telepathy Tapes podcast. In this episode, I unpack how telepathy claims about non-speaking autistic people intersect with facilitated communication, dehumanization, and inspiration-porn narratives. It hi...

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What does trauma-informed care actually mean in practice—and how can you tell when something isn’t trauma informed, even if it’s widely accepted?

In this episode, we're going through common green flags and red flags of trauma-informed care, incl...

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*Seinfeld voice* What's the deal with safety and empowerment???

If you've ever wondered why I go on and on about safety and empowerment, and why I don't tend to mention the other five principles of trauma-informed care very much, this episode ex...

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I have had meltdowns my whole life. I didn't know that's what they were called, but I definitely had them my whole life. And they SUCK! They're uncomfortable, sometimes scary, exhausting, and disabling. But I've also noticed that many, MANY peop...

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One consistent aspect of living as a neurodivergent is burnout. Whether it's ADHD, autism, depression, anxiety, OCD, trauma exposure, or literally any other brain difference, we're all burnout from, I suspect, a younger age than most neurotypica...

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There are many, MANY redflags in this rhetoric, so let's unpack them.

Episode topics include:

• Who are the creators of the podcast?
• The "superpower" flavor of dehumanization
• Alternative explanations for what people see
• Playing Devil's Advoca...

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So here's something from my Youtube page that, in light of the 2024 election cycle, I thought would be good to post here. Genocide always seems like hyperbole...until it's not.

(The video includes images of referenced articles and quotes, so if ...

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Topics covered:

• Updated episode intro ends around 8:00 (in light of the 2024 U.S. election cycle)
• Strategies (and I've time marks included below if you're wanting to find specific ones quickly)
  • Intro to strategies starts near 13:40
  • Phy...

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So you've tried all the burnout strategies you can find: Mindfulness, eating better, exercising, goign to bed early ...aaaannnnnd they didn't work. Guess you'll just stay burned out forever, right? Not necessarily...

The stuff that really works ...

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Episode 3 is finally here! On this episode, we talk about secondary traumatic stress (STS), a.k.a vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, trauma exposure, etc... This is the meat...the "entrée" (if you will)...of the series because I think that th...

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One little thread on r/slp made me think of three major things that are part of how I process and do neurodivergent-affirming care in the case of emotional dysregulation. So I made a really informal video (using my front cam on my Macbook, so ap...

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Part 2 is finally here!! (Whew!) On this episode, we go over both systemic and interpersonal/relationship things in the workplace itself that can contribute to traumatizing experiences for employees.

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• Reviewing what trauma re...

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Burnout. It seems like everyone has it! (*insert Oprah meme here* "YOU get burnout and YOU get burnout and YOU get burnout! EVERYONE GETS BURNOOOOOOUUT!!!!!") But what really is burnout? And why do so many people suffer from it?

This is the firs...

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So, I talked about this at my ASHA 2023 talk, made an image carousel on Instagram, and did rambly Youtube video on this, but figured I'd do a quick podcast ep on this as well, cause I've found myself using these terms more and more these days an...

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Just thought I'd put out a little update on what I've been up to and what I have planned in the works.

Feel free to check out my new(ish) Youtube channel here!

And I also have a new look for my website if ya want to check that out.

 

Feel free t...