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Author: Sommer Smith Created: 12/8/2009 1:22 PM
Blogs from New Leader and Speech-Language Pathologist, Sommer Smith

Building Positive Relationships with Students

By Sommer Smith on 9/3/2010 12:55 PM

Students are much more likely to be well-behaved and compliant when they admire and respect authority figures – that’s you! As related service professionals, we have a limited amount of time to build rapport with our students. Therefore, it’s important that we set our stage and lay out our expectations from the first day of therapy. Here are some tips to help you along:
 

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Connect, Create, Innovate

By Sommer Smith on 7/12/2010 1:54 PM

Once again, it is time for the annual ASHA Schools Conference. This year, it will be held in Las Vegas at the Mirage Hotel and Casino, July 16-18. Thursday July 15th will open up the conference with registration and 6 minute speed-networking in the evening.

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"Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

By Sommer Smith on 5/28/2010 8:55 AM

I just finished reading Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink. It’s a book about snap judgments, rapid cognition, and thin-slicing. Read it. It’s pretty good. I write all of that to say that it’s not a book on leadership per se, but in one chapter he refers to an Army General giving a lesson about leadership.

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