Recent Feedback
I just wanted to thank you for your wonderful presentation in Muskegon this week. I recommended your conference to all my grad school friends in Illinois.
Janet, SLP - Sept 28th, 2009
I cannot express to you how happy I am that I took your short /r/ course through speechpathology.com!! I taught one of my clients a tip /r/ today and what an amazing breakthrough! After 6 months of little progress and lots of frustration, he can finally say an /r/ that actually sounds like a mature /r/.
Robin, SLP
"Your books are wonderful! I read Becoming Verbal Oral Motor Techniques last year while trying to decipher my young boy with verbal apraxia. The books were very easy for a mom to use!!"
Lily
"I heard you speak at the MSHA conference in November and have been using both of your books on articulation therapy for /r/ and for /s/ since then. They have been the most useful resources I have ever had for articulation therapy, including what I was taught (or not taught!) in Grad School."
Jennifer, SLP
"I was at your April 23rd seminar in Garden Grove, CA. and it was the most concise, complete yet clearly and simply presented seminar I have been to in a long time. Thank you again."
Diana, SLP, CA
"I had an aha moment in class when you said that some clients needs both a tip up / r/ approach combined with a butterfly position. I tried this with a client who is 10 and has never said an /r/ sound correctly. Guess what?! She got it! We all started to cry - mom, client and me! It was the best moment ever! Thank you soooo much! She has been able to stabilize the /r/ since then and we are now working on putting it in other contexts. Thanks again!"
Karla Doherty, SLP, IL - Jan 14, 2010
"I have a 5th grade student who has been receiving speech therapy for the past 5 years for /r/ remediation from another therapist. He recently has moved to my caseload, and has really been a challenge! He also has started to lose motivation after numerous sessions without any success. I went to your conference on /r/ remediation and taught the "L to R method" to him on Monday... He said his /r/ correctly for the first time ever!!! The look on his face was priceless! I have never seen a child feel so proud of their success! Thanks so much for your wonderful idea!"
Christina, SLP, CA
"Thanks for a wonderful seminar. The suggestions you gave for working with my first grade student on his 'horrible R' worked! He was excited. His mom was so excited that she got tears in her eyes. She hugged her son and she hugged me."
- Lisa, SLP
Just want you to know how much you are doing to promote oral motor techniques and are dispelling myths about it not being effective. Your workshops are totally awesome (I've been attending over the last 20 years)! I always come away with new ideas and insights, to say nothing of being super motivated to use all the ideas you teach. ... Thanks for all you're doing in our field. Your work has really improved my service in the public school setting and I thoroughly enjoy your presentation (and willingness to be "politically incorrect"). We need more like you to tell these crazy school districts that kids DO need artic and oral motor therapy and it IS educationally significant!!!
Mimi Waterhouse, SLP
"I'd like to thank you. I attended your conference last month in NJ. It was the best conference I ever attended! It has turned my caseload around. I feel reinvigorated working with my kids and your techniques are actually working! Thank you so much!!!"
Joan Giammarino, SLP, NY
"I wanted to take a moment to write you an email and tell you how much I enjoyed your workshop last Wednesday May 21, 2008, in Somerset, NJ. I attended the workshop with several colleagues and each of us were engaged, informed and excited to return to therapy the following day. I have been to many workshops this year and I was touched by your obvious passion for what we do everyday and it definitely comes across in your delivery."
Noelle Laurita, SLP, NJ
"I was at your April 23rd seminar in Garden Grove, CA. and it was the most concise, complete yet clearly and simply presented seminar I have been to in a long time. Thank you again."
Diana, SLP, CA
"I have a 5th grade student who has been receiving speech therapy for the past 5 years for /r/ remediation from another therapist. He recently has moved to my caseload, and has really been a challenge! He also has started to lose motivation after numerous sessions without any success. I went to your conference on /r/ remediation and taught the "L to R method" to him on Monday…. He said his /r/ correctly for the first time ever!!! The look on his face was priceless! I have never seen a child feel so proud of their success! Thanks so much for your wonderful idea!"
Christina, SLP, CA
I attended the SLP Conference in St.Paul last week and had the privilege of hearing you speak a second time. I also attended your articulation workshop in January of this year in the same building. You gave me a whole new perspective on treating misarticulated /r/ sounds.
I have a girl on my caseload the just completed the 6th grade. She had worked on her /r/ sound with the elementary SLP and I worked with her in the middle school this past year. The previous SLP said she hoped I could help her because this poor girl just couldn't get it even though she was highly motivated. After five frustrating months of working with her, I attended your workshop. When I returned to school, I asked her if she would be willing to try a new approach and she agreed to it. I also called her mother and she was in agreement and willing to let me try whatever I thought might help her daughter. I am pleased to say that within a short period of time, she was producing correct /r/ sounds and even using correct /r/ sounds in conversation outside my room within a few months. Her teachers, mother, and her friend's mother have all noticed improvement. I am hoping to dismiss her during this next school year.
Thank you for your great ideas and help! This girl will be remembered as one of my greatest success stories. I also appreciate that you make your presentations fun and entertaining as well as informative.
Lanette Leigh, SLP
"You have such a refreshing sense of humor! Thank you for all the practical strategies and techniques - I will be able to use them right away with my students!"
Julia, SLP, Canada
"I just want to send a note of thanks for making so much sense! I am also an SLP trained in the 70's and have been working in public schools and private practice since. Sometimes I feel like our profession is just expanding our supposed expertise to a point that we are not effective in much of anything. Your message that we are "Speech/Language Pathologists" and not "Literacy/Language Pathologists" really meant a lot to me along with your statement that what we do is important. I think when we spread ourselves so thin in terms of the types of needs we try to serve we become unimportant because we can't possibly be the experts in all of these ideas. Thanks again for your wisdom and insight. Keep spreading this important message."
Colleen Lozeau, SLP, WI