280 – Patience and Play in Peds: Meaning-Making Makes the Difference

Swallow Your Pride Podcast

Theresa Richard, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-S

Education, Health & Fitness, Business, Careers, Medicine

4.8 • 899 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Have you harnessed the truly transformative power of play and patience for peds clients? We’re talking world-shifting, life-changing, tear-jerking, heart-string-tugging growth here!

Erin Forward (SLP) and Karen McWaters (OT) use creative activities, sensory exploration, and play-based, connection-focused interventions to help their clients unbundle their language skills, feel safe in their environment, and express their truest selves. They infuse joy, curiosity, and security in each session and their results are nothing short of inspirational.

The dynamic duo shares insights, tips, and tricks for parents and professionals, revealing how play can be a powerful tool to unlock a child's full potential in this inspirational episode.

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In this episode, you'll hear a discussion about:
🙌 Interdisciplinary collaboration
🙌 A practice-changing case study
🙌 Meaning-making in play and working with other disciplines
🙌 Research regarding the meaning-making process

Thank you, Erin and Karen, for all you do for your clients and for sharing your gifts with other therapists!

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0:00.0	On this episode of the Swallier Pride Podcast, we have Aaron Ford and she is joined by her
0:08.5	colleague Karen Mcwaters, who is an OT, and both Karen and Aaron, both were part of our dynamic duo's summit for the Mediocle collective.
0:18.8	And if you're interested in hearing their entire talk that you can get for ASHA CEOs.
0:24.0	Please check it out at med SLP collective.com
0:26.4	forward slash summit.
0:27.8	But we did an entire dynamic duos summit
0:31.0	all based around an SLP and an interdisciplinary colleague. So in this case
0:35.9	Aaron and her colleague Karen will be chatting about patients in play in Pedes
0:41.8	meaning making makes the difference.
0:44.1	So really excited to hear their talk and I hope you really enjoy this episode and
0:49.1	please check out the summit if you're interested in hearing more of their conversation.
0:53.4	Erin Forward is an SLP and certified lactation counselor.
0:57.0	She works as an SLP at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in an
1:00.4	outpatient setting working mainly with AAC, autism, and as part of their feeding team.
1:05.0	She has advanced training and pediatric feeding and swallowing disorders, early language, AAC and trauma,
1:10.0	specifically for medically complex children.
1:13.0	She is a regular co-host of First Bite,
1:15.1	a speech therapy podcast with Michelle Dawson,
1:19.0	where she shares her experiences
1:20.5	and evidence-based practices from her time
1:22.4	working in early intervention, home health, NICU, G.I. Clinic and outpatient clinic settings.
1:28.0	For her dedication to the field, she was awarded in an ASHA Distinguished Early Career Professional Certificate in 2021, and is a graduate of the
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