Leora A. Shaffer, M.A., CCC-SLP
May was National Speech, Language, and Hearing Month! Posted on our walls for all to read were reasons that each one of our SLP supervisors and student clinicians chose to be a part of this field. Our office was decorated with balloons, and we had a free raffle for our families and clinicians. For each attended session, the child received a raffle ticket, and winners were chosen at the end of the month. It was fun to hear two brothers figure out that they would have a better chance of winning because there were two of them earning raffle tickets!
June 14th is the end of our academic calendar for the 2023-2024 school year. We made such a difference in so many families’ lives by providing evaluations, therapy, and making referrals. We helped a family who recently moved to California navigate the public school system and provided services for their children until the process was completed. The mother felt so empowered by the knowledge that we gave her, she was able to confidently approach her district and get positive changes made for her child once school starts again in the Fall.
As we send our current student clinicians into their first jobs as SLP’s, we excitedly await a new group of Chapman University graduate clinicians to join us in serving our families here at CLC in the Fall.
