5. Your friends ask if you want to consider a Caribbean cruise in the fall and your response is: “Sorry guys, I’ve got ASHA…” (although let’s be honest, they were never going to pull the cruise plan off anyway!)
4. You high-five the person next to you in the computer lab because your pediatric client’s final case summary for the short, 8-week summer quarter is only12 pages long! FOR THE WIN!
3. The kids you nanny for decide to play “word association” in the car on the way home from camp and you subconsciously start taking an inventory of their semantic networking skills
2. Your initial reaction while watching The Dark Knight Rises is: “Holy mama, Batman is going to have some serious nodules if he keeps that phonotraumatic voice going much longer!” http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6643191/batman-chooses-his-voice (warning for one tiny quick moment of bad language!)
Hanna Bogen, M.S., CCC-SLP is a Speech-Language Pathologist and Social-Cognitive Specialist. With a primary focus on therapies and interventions that support self-regulation and social communication, Hanna consults and collaborates in multiple schools to bring social-regulation, executive functioning, mindfulness, and social-cognitive strategies into the classrooms. She has trained K-12 teachers and educational specialists across the U.S. to support them in meeting the needs of all learners in their classrooms. In addition to her school consultation, Hanna provides individual and group therapy in the areas of articulation, language development, self-regulation, executive functioning, and social communication. Hanna is the co-owner of Executive Functioning Junction and the co-developer of the Brain Talk curriculum, which teaches students about brain functioning to improve metacognition and self-regulation skills. She holds a B.A. from Linfield College and a M.S. from the University of Washington.
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Great post Hanna! I already earned my Master’s but I’m still in the same student mindset haha! I always say: once an SLP student, always an SLP student. Although, I no longer write papers for school (#4) and don’t really have time to babysit (#3), I still plan my vacations and getaways according to the conference and continuing ed course schedule and I analyze everyone’s voice and speech.
Good luck!
Hanna B. SLP 
Great post Hanna! I already earned my Master’s but I’m still in the same student mindset haha! I always say: once an SLP student, always an SLP student. Although, I no longer write papers for school (#4) and don’t really have time to babysit (#3), I still plan my vacations and getaways according to the conference and continuing ed course schedule and I analyze everyone’s voice and speech.
Good luck!
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Thanks so much Magdalena! I figure I’ll probably always be in this mindset too (for better or worse)!
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