Hear Me Out – A Masonic Children's Clinic Podcast
Hear Me Out - A Masonic Children's Clinic Podcast
Podcast Description
Welcome to the Masonic Children's Clinic Podcast – where we explore the everyday challenges and triumphs faced by children with communication disorders. Each episode offers meaningful conversations with experts, caregivers, and families as we share real stories, helpful insights, and practical tips. Whether you're a parent, professional, or simply someone who cares, join us in celebrating the remarkable kids we serve—and the dedicated people who support them every step of the way.
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The podcast focuses on communication disorders in children, featuring topics such as childhood apraxia of speech, augmentative and alternative communication, and the impact of community support. Episodes include interviews with specialists like Sorina Larson discussing therapies for CAS and families like the Bodins sharing their personal journeys with technology-assisted communication.
Welcome to the Masonic Children’s Clinic Podcast – where we explore the everyday challenges and triumphs faced by children with communication disorders. Each episode offers meaningful conversations with experts, caregivers, and families as we share real stories, helpful insights, and practical tips. Whether you’re a parent, professional, or simply someone who cares, join us in celebrating the remarkable kids we serve—and the dedicated people who support them every step of the way.
Hosts Niki Lampi and Tamara Pogin from the Masonic Children’s Clinic for Communication Disorders interview Heather Brockman, a pediatric SLP at Essentia Health for 22 years who helped establish the Fetal Alcohol Diagnostic Clinic, works with teens at Northwood Children’s Services, and consults with ToivoTek on Speech Sense Pro. Heather shares her own history of having a speech disorder and explains how adults’ expectations shape children’s self-view. She discusses adolescent language, mental health, and reframing “behavior” as communication tied to unmet skills, drawing on DIR/Floortime, regulation strategies, and Ross Greene’s ideas. As a parent of a neurodiverse child, she describes challenges with typical discipline and schooling and the importance of advocacy. She outlines Speech Sense Pro’s development, including speech-to-text transcription that preserves errors and tools to streamline SLP workflow and improve home-program communication.
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