Podcast Episodes

Lesley Sylvan on her book and sabbatical

Season 1 Episode 11

We explore how school-based SLPs can stop working in isolation and start building real MTSS change through shared responsibility for language across …

5 hours ago

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Medical versus Educational Language

Season 1 Episode 10

We challenge the medical-style language that keeps school-based SLPs stuck in isolation and overload, and we replace it with an educational, MTSS-ali…

2 weeks ago

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Moving from the Outside to the Inside

Season 1 Episode 9

We rethink what it means to belong as a school-based SLP and why the pull-out, referral-driven cycle keeps us feeling like outsiders. We connect curr…

4 weeks ago

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Interview with Zoë Watt

Season 1 Episode 8

We trade the pull-out fix-it model for a collaborative MTSS approach that makes communication support part of everyday classroom learning. We share w…

1 month, 1 week ago

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Interview with Pam Waterhouse

Season 1 Episode 7

We unpack why school-based SLPs feel like they’re failing when the system is built for an impossible caseload and a pull-out “fix it” model. We explo…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

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From Pull-Out Therapy To Classroom Impact

Season 1 Episode 6

I share a mindset shift for school-based SLPs when a teacher says, “I don’t know what to do with them”, and I show how that moment can point to class…

2 months, 1 week ago

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Moving Beyond Pull-Out Therapy Through True Classroom Collaboration

Episode 4

We ask where school-based SLPs truly belong and why that answer reshapes goals, service delivery, and impact in the classroom. I trace how the medica…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

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Interview with Dr. Carl Anserello

Episode 5

We trace how a northern BC school district moved from isolated specialists and nonstop testing to true collaboration built on problem-solving and sim…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

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Reimagining School SLP: Collaboration, Tiers, And Sustainability

Season 1 Episode 1

We trace a path from isolated pull-out therapy to a collaborative, tiered model that centres students and restores SLP sustainability. Through storie…

4 months ago

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Introducing Myself

Season 1 Episode 2

I introduce my professional journey whilst working in schools. 

• working more closely with class teachers
• ideas and books that shaped a school-align…

4 months ago

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