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With Dr. Julia Royston. Well, hello, I'm Dr.

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Julia Royston, and welcome to another edition of the Live Your Best Life Show. And where I'm always seeking to bring you people, places, tools, information, and resources to help you live your best life. So I want you to uh get out your pen and paper if you're old school or a notebook or journal. Uh, if you're new school, you know, just get out your handy phone. And I have both. I have pen and paper on my desk, and my phone is definitely handy. So I want you to be able to uh follow my guest, uh, keep up with what she's doing, what's going on, any hits, tips, resources she provides. Um, and and I have to say personally that this area of uh treatment and medicine is near and dear to my heart because I did have to have speech. Most people freak out when I say that, uh, for two years of my life when I was much, much younger. And so it seemed like I had just a short story. It seemed like I had all kinds of problems. When I when and if you follow me for a while, you know I've talked about this. I mean, when I was born, my feet went uh right and left instead of uh forward and back. Um, my ears always had to go to the ear, nose, and throat doctor because despite q-tips, I always had excessive wax and he would have to put a long syringe and uh get the wax out of my ears and be like, okay, Julia, that's a little gross, but it's the truth. And then um then I had glasses by the time I was eight years old. Ooh, child, I was a mess. And then first and second grade, I thought I was just being special. I just thought people just like me and I got to leave the classroom. I didn't know I was getting something fixed. So for first and second grade, because well, I was born in 63, so back in the day there wasn't public kindergarten. So I had to go to private school for kindergarten. Kindergarten wasn't in the public uh elementary school. So you gotta head start. Um so I went to private school for uh kindergarten and then started elementary in the first grade. And the first and second grade, my they told my parents, Julia needs helpless speech. And you know, and they were like, well, whatever it takes. My father was an educator, so that made a little bit of difference. So my guest and I are gonna talk a little bit about the um the family dynamic, and because fast forward, I became an educator and and the biggest champion for the speech therapist in my building. And she's like, don't send me no more. I said, listen, I'm listening to them and they're not talking right. Something you need to listen to. Well, I don't have no more. Listen, you better make your own because I would hate to be 62 years old and still having that same speech impediment. So that's that's kind of my preface. And when I was at an event and saw her, I was like, ooh, wait a minute, I need to interview her. Definitely, definitely, definitely. So um, so with that being said, please introduce yourself, tell us where you're from, and then tell us where we can find you on social media and your website. Take it away.

SPEAKER_03 3:59

Well, hello, everyone. My name is Jasmine Crimes, and I am out of Columbus, Ohio. Um, all social media handles are Speech World Therapy. That's also the website, speechworld therapy.com.

SPEAKER_07 4:14

Awesome, awesome, awesome. So you all can be able to find her, speechworld therapy.com. And uh for those of you who are thinking about doing a business, thinking about starting a business, don't have every social media a different handle. Just make it uniform, you know, like everybody can they just do one thing and thank you. Thank you for that branding nugget. That wasn't just a branding tip, that was a nugget. So let's go back to the beginning. How did you uh what was the inspiration? What's kind of the backstory even before we get into the deep uh the details of speech pathology?

SPEAKER_03 4:53

So that's interesting that you asked because my journey is actually very unique for most to say that they knew what they wanted to do, they had a uh a roadmap drawn out in their mind, and that's what they followed. So that's not my story. Um, I went to undergrad initially for psychology. Um, that was my first major, and I got all the way almost done with my third year, and then I got pregnant and had a child. So, in that I had to think of something that could make money sooner than all the way going through to my doctorates um and making money then. I had to pivot. Um, like you have to do sometimes. So I had to pivot. And what I did, I went on like a journey of shadowing, um, different careers, different pathways. What can I do that can get me money now, right? Because I have this newborn, but also take me to where I want to go in the future. I landed at OT first, and I applied to school, got in, was getting ready to start that, but then shadowed a speech pathologist. And that changed my life. So after shadowing that speech pathologist, I said, Oh yeah, this is this was made for me and I was made to do this. Um, so from that point on, I had a different path. Like I said, so I got my speech pathology assistant license first. So I got my associates. So I talked, I went into the school with all the confidence in the world and said, Hey, I need to finish this in a year. I think it was a two-year program, but I had already done schooling, so I said, Hey, this is what I need to do. So they didn't recommend taking as many classes as I took at the same time. But I said, You're going to have to trust me. I can do this. So somehow I convinced the director of the program to let me kind of really mull my way through because I had already had experience in college. So I got through that associate's program in a year, and then I went on to my bachelor's after that, which took me a year and a half after my associates. But mind you, I had already done almost three years of school. So this is starting over, going down a different path. So after that bachelor's degree, I worked as an assistant for some time and I gained a lot of field experience, which was really good because when I went back to get my master's, I was already a pretty good clinician. I had to learn the assessment aspect of it and diagnosing people with different delays and disorders. So that was something that I had to learn, but I took a lot of clinical expertise from my working experience into my master's degree. So that's kind of how my path went through school. There's so many different pathways. You don't have to start at your associates. They have like a five-year straight to your master's from undergrad now. So there's a lot of different pathways, but that's my unique story that um I don't tell very often, but that's kind of how I landed um in the field of speech pathology.

SPEAKER_07 8:05

Well, you know, I mean, the as I said, the road is not necessarily a straight line. I think more than anything else is that we learn the lessons along the way. And I don't believe anything happens to us just by happenstance. I believe God always has a plan. And no matter how you get there and what the road you take to get there, um, as long as it's in his plan and purpose for your life. And so I wanted to point out one of the main things that I find that people don't do. They don't shadow other people. Learned about the shadowing process when I taught um Catholic high school. And that was how they were get kids excited about going to the school because it's private school you pay. Is that you as a freshman, you come and you shadow the older eighth grader, I think. Well, seventh and eighth grade, because they were really working toward the process. They wanted you to already, you know, put presentation down as a place to go. And so that shadowing experience, being able to be in um the building, being able to be around the girls, being able to eat in the cafeteria and go through a game or some kind of sports activity is really, really key. And I think that's one of the things that people end up just landing a job, which, you know, no shame in that at all. Whatever you have to do that's um morally and ethically sound um to make a living. But after so long, I I just just like you need to find where you fit, like where you where you don't have to be, oh my God, I gotta go. Well, some days you feel like that is because you don't feel like you don't you don't feel like doing it. But there should be some days where you jump out of bed and say, I got this, I'm I'm that. And so being able to shadow is just really, really important. You're able to watch how it's done, ask some questions, uh, realize that I mean you're about to get degrees in accounting.

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And uh, I realize I'm like you, the third year, I'm like, oh no, you you don't really have any react interaction with people, just a cubicle with numbers that are added, well, he had a machine back then, a computer, like, oh no, I don't want that. I talk too much for that. Um, you know, I do too much for that. So that that shadowing piece is really, really uh important. And of course, that field experience. So um, so is the is there a doctoral program that goes along with it or the master's pretty much the highest it goes?

SPEAKER_03 10:40

No, you can get your doctorate. It's more for if you want to do academia, if you want to teach your shadow um or heavy in research, but that master's degree is where you are able to get your certificate of clinical competence and you have to pass that exam in order to um diagnose and treat.

SPEAKER_07 11:00

Absolutely. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 11:01

So you can you can go beyond that, but I want to come back to that shadowing piece that you talked about. Um, I'm an 80s baby, so things were a little bit different. We had like bring your child to work day to where your kids went to work with you, and even though you may be a nurse, you're still exposed to the whole hospital. Right.

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Right.

SPEAKER_03 11:21

And what I find with the students that I um teach now, they don't know what's out there. They have no idea outside of your core careers, right? You have a nurse in medical, you have um their scope is very limited on what they can be and what they can do based on what they're good in. And I feel like getting the word out there to say, hey, let's look at some different options, you know, you might not be great in math, but you're a terrific writer. And the way that you can explain information, I tell kids all the time, like, I can see you being good in this specific area. And when I say that, you know, because they may struggle in a different area, it they light up like, oh, there are things that I can get into that um play on my strength. So I think the shadowing piece is very important. Um, I don't know how to kind of bring that back into the education um system because you really don't see it as much as you used to. Um and maybe that's because technology is greater today, right? You can Google everything, but we had to go into the building. Right.

SPEAKER_07 12:31

But the other part of that, too, it goes to two things, two problems. If your parents have never been exposed to that kind of activity, now in in kind of the private school arena, they're very vocal and they're very aggressive about where they want their child to be because they have advanced, they understand it. And so, but then the other part is even if your parents have not exposed you, there is a lot on technology. There is a lot. So if you've thought about being a speech pathologist, uh go to speechworld therapy.com and then look and see and inquire and maybe send an email.

SPEAKER_06 13:10

Uh, because sometimes you do have to think out of the box. Unfortunately, in 2025, we're going from the 80s to 2025, uh, work and and um generating uh an income for your life is totally different. You know, there's definitely not a straight path.

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And so, and I think a lot of times that shadowing piece is because you're moving into an arena that you may be qualified for in different areas, but you don't have an eyesight of it. You don't have you don't see it, you've never seen that done. You're basically on the outside looking in via video or somebody else, and you're thinking a wonder or whatever. But the only one you're gonna know, you got to jump on in, you gotta ask some questions. And so I encourage who's ever listening, jump on in. I agree. Yeah, jump on in, ask that question. And it can only be yes, no, more information. Oh no, that's not for me. But that whole living and regret of did you ask? Well, no. Well, how do you think it's gonna automatically be a no if you never inquired, if you never sent the letter, if you never sent the resume, if you never sent the email.

SPEAKER_03 14:21

So yeah, that's really it may not always be, and this is very important for me to say um as a black female.

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Yes, absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 14:29

Who came who was raised in poverty. I didn't know what I can do until I saw someone do it that came from my same neighborhood. I'm going to be completely transparent. That was my sister. So my sister was like, I'm pushing past everything and I'm going to do the impossible. And she has. She's a dentist, she has her own practice, so she did that. If it wasn't for her and me seeing someone who looks like me and came from my community do it, I would, I wouldn't have even attempted. I would have um stopped myself before I even started. Um, and then having a child on top of that, um, it was going into my master's, it was like, can she do this? Is because the rigor of the program, you know, that was something that faculty was concerned with. Is this something that she can do? Because I didn't look like everyone else. Right, right. But never defeat yourself before you start. Even if you have an initial no, keep going with what you know God has called you specifically to do, but push and push and push.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 15:37

Absolutely. Uh, you know, I I tell people all the time, you know, I have a child, I have a I said, well, it doesn't make it impossible. It'll just, you'll just have to do it differently. And it may be a little bit more difficult. And you have a now a responsibility. You have uh an additional responsibility that somebody else who doesn't have a child, but they still gotta take the test, they still gotta write the papers, they gotta still go through the the rigor, especially if you're on a college campus, they still gotta find a parking space just like you do. Maybe it's in a tube, but they still gotta find a parking space, they still gotta study, they still have to write the paper, turn it in on time or upload it on time, whatever that looks like. So it's not impossible. It's just, you know, you you made a decision, you're you're there. So therefore, the way you move is totally different than someone else moves. And um, yeah. So having, did you spend most of your field experience in schools or was it privately? Because I know some still, well, back then they went to the house sometimes, or they did private um lessons or whatever that's private sessions, uh, primary not the private lessons, but private sessions. So where did the primary or your field experience come from?

SPEAKER_03 16:51

I did the whole spectrum of experience. My first was in a veterans hospital. Um I did schools, hospitals, nursing homes. Um, when I was an assistant, I did in-home. I've done medically fragile children. Um I've always wanted to own a practice, that's why it's called speech world. I wanted to treat adolescents through adults in all areas of life. So my main goal in my field experience was to get experiences in different settings so I can say, okay, um how can I navigate this to make it an entire company built just on speech, um not so much other disciplines. Um so that has always been that was always the overall goal. So my field experience, it's it's there's a wide range there.

SPEAKER_07 17:45

That's a and that's a great thing. And especially when you say adults, because I usually um well, I won't do it anymore, but I usually hear people who talk and I'm like, oh wow, if they'd have been younger, it would have been great for um for them to have speech. And and you know, and then I I often my father's deceased, but my my mother, I tell her all the time, thank you so much for for agreeing, because I I have known some parents who say, I don't want my child labeled. Okay, but he still has a speech uh deficiency. So because you're thinking it's a reflection, let's go there for a minute. The reflection on the parent, you you stop getting the help that the child needs. Okay, so how does that conversation work for you? Because it just makes me mad, but you know, I'm I'm I'm totally different. So how does that work for you?

SPEAKER_03 18:37

So I'll kind of tap into just the schools. That's where you see it most. See parents saying, hey, what does this look like? Um, what does this mean? And it's kind of a scary thing. Um, I am one experience, but I'll speak on my experience since I'm being interviewed. Um, I see it most in um the black community. We struggle with what is this going to mean for my child from here on out. And I've seen a lot of parents not do it based on those labels. To me, come from professionals not explaining thoroughly what's going on.

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Absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 19:23

If you just have someone coming to you telling you, hey, Johnny has issues here, here, here, here, here, and they just hear a list of negatives, they're going to pull out to say, well, wait a minute, you know, and I feel like that's just people 101. Nobody wants to hear a lot of negative information without some positive or some type of um solution to the problem.

SPEAKER_07 19:48

Right.

SPEAKER_03 19:49

Right. So um kind of how I approach it, we're we're humans first, we're people first. I'm a parent of three, you know, we're parents. So can I meet you to where you are?

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Right.

SPEAKER_03 20:02

Let me tell you where we want to go. And let me tell you how it's not me making a decision for you. This is a team effort, right? So your opinions matter. I can give you a professional opinion, but I tell parents an assessment is a snapshot in time. So don't take it as this is my whole child. They could have been tired that day. A lot of factors could have played into um how they did on that assessment. So that's why parent involvement is important, teacher input is important, the therapist input is important. And I think that if parents can understand that it's a team, it's not the school against you. We're on the same team to try to do what's best for the child. And I noticed that when I approach it in that light, kind of from a um interpersonal relationship aspect, parents are more inclined to trust me and what I'm saying and say, okay, I'll give it a try.

SPEAKER_07 20:58

Right. Absolutely. And of course, if if they're a black or brown parent, they'll probably take it easier from you too as well. I find that um, well, one school, it was not very culturally versed. And um the assistant superintendent said, y'all got to fix this because your population looks like one thing and your teaching staff doesn't look like that. So if they're not feeling comfortable enough to even work with you and be the team player. But you're right. I mean, they always taught us we need to lead with the good side. Now, Johnny is very, very helpful. He's just very enthusiastic with his help. Like we always have to lead with the positive. But at the end of the day, to parents out there, yes, be sure and keep being an advocate for your child. I highly recommend that. And uh also find somebody who does explain it the way you need it explained. Because what ends up happening is. You're concerned about the label, and I'm concerned about the resources. You're not, your, your child is not able to benefit for the resources that are out there. And I think even if you're an educator listening to this, focus on the benefit for the child. Focus on the resources that are out there and not he can't say S like I could, he's he's terrible with czars. He, you know, his whys are the, you know, everything is just horrible the way he speaks. Don't leave with that.

SPEAKER_03 22:33

And tell tell parents, like especially with articulation, like you speak of, um, the S, the different sounds, you know, some people may say, well, it's not that serious. Okay. You can't say your R, you can't say your S. But then if I feel like it's us as professionals, it's our job to say, okay, let me tell you how this could happen. If they can't say their S's and they can't say their R's, that's how they're going to read. And then if that's how they're reading, that's how they're going to hear it in their mind and that's how they're going to write it. So now we have reading and writing deficits based on how something sounds or what they said. So I think it's just that extra time. Like I'm a parent, I need that extra time. I always say, if necessary, I've worked with all three of my children in the area of speech and language. Right. So it's I understand that it's scary, but you really have to treat people like humans.

SPEAKER_07 23:28

Right.

SPEAKER_03 23:29

You have to build that connection so that they understand that, hey, I'm here to help you, not to hinder you or to hurt you. Um, I'm I'm in your corner and I want to do what's best for your child just as much as you do.

SPEAKER_07 23:44

Absolutely. And it's a confidence builder, too, as well, because there are still times where the child has to raise their hand and ask a question, even if it's to go to the bathroom, or uh respond to an answer, or you know, just speak up and say I'm hurt or something's wrong. And it really is a confidence builder. Now, my parents were, my dad was an educator, so therefore he knew. So it wasn't like, ah, it wasn't all that trauma. They were like, okay, when is it? And uh who's who's the pathologist or the therapist? That's it. It wasn't about why, what? No, because he he taught, he retired from teaching. So it wasn't that. But the other part to this talking about the parent reinforcement, once I got into speech, my ass slipped. Oh man, and they said, What'd you say? What did you just say? And my father would say, Wait a minute, say that again. And so it made me extremely self-conscious. Because I couldn't, you know, I couldn't just talk any kind of way. So there's like, there's no sense in you being brought out and taken out of your classroom twice a week for S's, and then we just let you say anything that you get out of the house.

SPEAKER_03 25:02

Okay. Yeah. That I am really big on. I say that the speech pathologist is here to is here to teach the skill, teach you strategies, but it has to be reinforced in the classroom and at home. Because if if it's not reinforced, the carryover will be very weak and you'll see the regression. I I preach that. So I'm happy that you said that because that is something that I preach all the time.

SPEAKER_07 25:29

I told y'all, that that area of therapy is high on my list. I am just a big uh proponent of it because I have taught with, I have worked with adults, and I'm like, ooh, wait a minute, you know, and and sweet as they can be and nice as they can be, but uh uh their um speech, their confidence, everything would have been uh vastly improved if they had um if they had uh had speech therapy. So I'm I'm a champion for you guys. So don't don't play with me because speech pro therapy is gonna be on my list, gonna be on my list. Especially if you're in Ohio, I'm like, you know, have you have you thought about? And so how long normally are your sessions? Are they 30 minutes, an hour?

SPEAKER_03 26:19

It depends. Most speech related. So when I say speech, that is how you say your sounds, um, sometimes fluency, um, how smooth your speech is, those are generally 30 minutes. So this varies. Everything varies between 30 minutes and an hour. If you're young, my early interventions, I do 30 minutes with them. I get in and I get out in a play-based way. Now, when you get into literacy, when you get into reading, comprehension, and writing, you're a little bit older, those tend to be about 45 minutes to an hour. Now it all depends on what you can withstand, because I can do a lot in 30 minutes. A lot of people think it's the time and how long you're there, but it's really I'm teaching you the skill, you're practicing the skill, and then I need you to generalize the skill. We examine, we review, I teach you something, you practice it, and then I need you to generalize it. So that's where that information goes to the parents or the teachers. Hey, this is what we've worked on. I need you to carry this over. So then we come back and we review, you're ready to go, and we're ready to move forward in that. So that's kind of how it works. Um, I don't necessarily like longer sessions unless it's reading, um, writing, or some type of um comprehension. So literacy takes a little bit more time to unpack. Um, but as far as speech, as far as language, and when I say language, the aspects of maybe grammar syntax, um the younger you are, the shorter your sessions generally will be.

SPEAKER_10 27:51

Oh, absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 27:52

The older you are, depending on what you're working on, they may be a little bit more lengthy. But I would never see somebody for articulation for an hour.

SPEAKER_07 27:59

Yeah, no, no, that the their attention span can't stand that long. Okay, so I have uh a question in regards to impact of technology, because you know, when I was younger, we did everything pencil, paper, we uh verbal everything. Um, you know, the red group, the yellow birds, the green birds, and the you know, bluebirds is over here, and and we had a uh small book in our hand and we're reading out loud. But what impact has technology had on um your um sessions or because you know, a lot of people a lot of people, if they have technology, they're not talking. We'll be right back. You're listening to Live Your Best Life with your host, Dr. Julia Royston, right here on envision-radio.com where praise meets talk 24-7. Adapting to the digital online and virtual space has been a seamless transition for us at BK Royston Publishing, Royal Media and Publishing, and the Book Business Boss Consulting. With the longstanding presence in ebooks, websites, and virtual coaching and events, we've embraced the increasing prevalence of these platforms. While some still hesitate to fully engage in the virtual realm, we remain committed to encouraging and supporting this shift. Join us in elevating your business and our business with the book Business in the Digital Online and Virtual Space by Julia A. Royston. Available now at Royston Royal Bookstore.com. That's Royston Royal Bookstore.com.

SPEAKER_05 29:50

And we're back.

SPEAKER_07 29:53

Not saying anything. So what do you think the uh the impact of the uh technology has had on um our speech today? Because we can text it, we don't necessarily have to actually talk and pick up the phone.

SPEAKER_03 30:09

So it's so interesting because communication extends past talking, right? Because everybody can't verbally communicate. So even in texting, um, we have alternative communication for people who are not verbal. So my main thing, I always say communication as a whole. How are you able to express your thoughts, your needs, your wants effectively? No matter the means. So that's how I say that because texting, hey, are you getting your message across fully? Is your syntax in order? Are you able to say exactly what you mean? Even if you're writing it, because writing is a form of communication as well. Um, so even in that, whatever mode that you like to use, I'll start with that. I have some kids that I see they come in and you know, it's always a challenge. Okay, I don't want to talk, you know. Um, not that they can't. That's a different thing talking about. But if they can and they're just not sure about me, oh, I'm right there with you. So we'll write the first session and people laugh at me a lot because I'll get right wherever level you are, I'm there with you. And I'll meet you where you are and we'll work from there. Um, and I think that has been my abil my ability to connect with whoever I'm working with because it's connection first. Who cares what you know? Like, is it Dr. Seuss until they know, you know, how much you care? So um I've been able to kind of shift um to use all of the above. I don't stay away from technology. I don't think technology is a bad thing. I think we can learn a lot from it and gain a lot from it. And I think there's also something great in a paper and pencil and verbal communication, eye contact, learning how to talk to people, um, if that's something that you're able to do. So if that answered your question, I don't think it's a bad thing. I think you have to incorporate it and meet, especially this generation of kids where they are.

SPEAKER_07 32:06

Yeah, absolutely. I highly agree. Um, well, my husband was an IT for 32 years and I was a technology teacher for, so you know technology is high on my list. But I do know I did have an autism unit in my building, and I did have babies that were nonverbal. Oh, they could communicate that way. They had they had their own ways to get what they wanted and and and get it across, whether it was sign language or otherwise. But I'm I'm happy to hear that you do focus on um have the aspect of um reading and writing, which is uh a wonderful thing too, as well, because shorthand and and texting is is great. I do it too. I'm not I'm not hating on nobody. I do it all the time, but being able to the fluency part really uh as well as just the uh pronunciation of words is a great overall skill to be able to have. Okay, so put on your business hat real quick. Um, and tell me how did you move from your own practice from where you were in the field working with others to your own business, your own uh company. How did you transition?

SPEAKER_03 33:18

Well, I had just had baby number three, and my husband and I came to a roadblock of saying the traditional way of working is not sufficient. Um somebody has to be able to take off if a kid gets sick. Um, somebody has to be able to pick the kids up, and starting a private practice was always something that I wanted to do. Um, but it's that leap of okay, how does this work exactly? So I did a deep dive. I am not a fan of reinventing the wheel. So I did a deep dive of people who have done it before, and I took courses and I reached out um to different people that I knew had done it, and that was the best thing that I could have ever done. So I took a lot of courses, but this is an interesting story. I took this one lady's course about school contracts, just randomly, you know, newborn kids took the course. Um, not too long after that, a company that I used to work for asked, was I available for a position? And I was like, oh no, but I can contract with you. So because I had took that course, I already had a draft um contract. So I had everything I already needed, and I was able to get my first contract that way. So it was very seamless. It happened really fast, but from there, um, every new um, because we do school contracts, um, every new contract that um we've acquired, I've learned a little bit more along the way. So I always say get started, just start. Um, you'll learn something new, especially from the business aspect of it and all the different insurances and things that you have to carry for the government. The first tax year might be a little scary because it's like, oh, was this done correctly? But once you get the flow of how it works, you'll be fine. So speech world, we do school contracts. Um, we also do early intervention with the state of Ohio. So we go into the homes and we see birth to three. And then we also have a big where I met you, the homeschool convention. Um, we do scholarship, we take scholarship for homeschool families, private, and charter school. So um we see a lot of kids who are homeschooled or go to that go to non-public charter that don't have access to um free and appropriate education, special education services.

SPEAKER_07 35:54

Right, right. And that that's an important thing too, as well. And I guess coming from public school, well, private school too, we partnered with public schools. So if you needed speech, if you needed um behavioral management or whatever, we had a college. So they had they had forged uh partnerships, but now in the world of the homeschool, charter school, and really kind of that really independent. We want to be independent so we can make our own decisions, but also we're gonna need to figure out how we're going to provide all these services because the public school does have everything, everything you can think of, from clothes to, I don't know, everything. Um, and school supplies and everything, kind of food and everything in between. But when you're in a private type setting and you need a specialty service, such as speech or such as any other kind of uh therapy, um psychological, et cetera, you have to you have to be able to reach out. And so being at that homeschool conference really kind of opened my eyes of, okay, yeah, I that makes all the sense in the world for you to have to be here because you're servicing not a whole school and all the families inside the school, but now you're house to house to house, family to family. Now there's some large cohorts. I did see some of those that are kind of together, but they're not demanded to, you know, be a part of some of those services and pay. They may get a discount because there's more of them, but it's still house to house, family to family, just like buying a washer and dryer, or buying a pair of shoes or an apple or orange. It's that it's that same, you know, thought process and mentality. And a lot of people are successfully homeschooling. Some of them be quality, but there's a lot of them that are seeing all them hundreds of people in that at that conference made me to know, oh, okay. And this is just a regional one. This is not, you know, all of them put together and standing out waiting in line. Yeah, it doesn't make a difference. So um, so having that ability of being an entrepreneur does make all the difference in the world because you get to decide.

SPEAKER_03 38:14

And I can talk to families. Um, we get a lot of families that just want to talk. Um, those are where my consultations come in because they don't want a diagnosis, they're unsure about how they want to move exactly. So we're able just to have that human connection and conversation to say, okay, this is the next step. I've heard so many horror stories with families like I went in just to see, and I came out with all these disorders and delays and labels that are scary if they're not explained. So um, with Speech World, we truly just take the time to listen, um, to see what your needs and concerns are and to see how we can work together to meet those needs.

SPEAKER_07 38:57

Absolutely, absolutely. Now, Speech World, you're able to do you do any kind of virtual consultation? Are you able to do that?

SPEAKER_03 39:06

Or so consultations are virtual. Um, we are in uh, let me see if I can remember um Ohio, Arizona, California, Texas, and Missouri.

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Okay.

SPEAKER_03 39:23

So we can treat in any of those states um currently. Um we also are beginning to contract with schools in some of those states as well. So we're expanding, we're excited. Ohio is the base.

SPEAKER_07 39:37

You went west, you went thing.

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That's a one thing.

SPEAKER_03 39:43

Interesting. The story on that is interesting. I went to places where I have either um worked or done some type of business in. So those are those are how those states came about. That's where we're starting. So that's where we are right now.

SPEAKER_07 39:58

Okay, so do you have like across the bridge states as well? What is that? Would be Virginia and West Virginia and Kentucky and Indiana.

SPEAKER_03 40:07

No, no, not not right now. Um, those are the only um states that we are currently seeing um clients.

SPEAKER_07 40:18

Yeah, well, consider that because Kentucky's surrounded by seven. So I know there's nearby people and across the river and across the bridge people that you know probably definitely we need your help. So that's my prayer is that God enlarge your territory. Yeah. Um, so do you have um last question? Do you have anything that you really want to offer potential clients, parents, or what are one or two things that they should really be looking for before they give permission or sign the dotted line? I know we've had uh talked uh extensively about on the therapist side that really building relationships and uh making sure that you're moving in the a positive as well as explaining things, but what should the parents really be looking for?

SPEAKER_03 41:14

So don't sign what you don't agree with. And and this goes for any document, this is school based related. Don't sign what you don't agree with. Um everybody should be in agreement with what is going on with your child. Um, and make sure that you understand and you agree before you sign anything. Um the next thing for parents, if you just don't think something's right, if you think that your child um struggles with communication in any way. So communication can be how you say your sounds and how well you're understood to an unknown listener, or it could be from the language aspect of what you understand. Hmm, my child's really not getting this one to two-step direction, right? This goes for our little kids. Um, or a child will read it, but have no idea what they read. They struggle with comprehension, or they can struggle with um expression. Um, they're feeling some type of deep emotion, but can't find the words to connect it, right? So they're struggling with expression, or they're struggling socially. We don't think about that one. They're struggling with um peer-to-peer interaction and what to do in that those social situations. Um speech pathologists help with all aspects of communication, whether that be speech, language, literacy, writing. Um, we didn't get into swallowing today, so we won't touch base on that right now. But if you just have a question, ask the question and tell whoever you're talking to, whether it be the therapist or the educator, hey, I really just want you to hear me out. And then let's talk from there about what we want to do as a team. Make sure that you know, parents, that you are a part of that team.

SPEAKER_07 43:15

Absolutely, absolutely. Well, it's been a pleasure having you as my guest today. Um, be sure and visit speechworld therapy.com. If you have any questions, email her. And of course, if you're in any of those states she listed, be sure and jump on and schedule a conversation, schedule an appointment so the child can get the help that they need. And so they can live their best life.

SPEAKER_03 43:43

For sure, for sure. Thank you for having me.

SPEAKER_07 43:46

Thank you, thank you so much. I'm Dr. Julia Royston. My prayer today, tomorrow, and always is that you live your best life. Be blessed and have a great day. Bye bye.

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