Educational Inservice Today
The speech team has dedicated their Saturday to a special continuing education inservice with Occupational Therapist Jacqueline Rosquita from the Valley Medical Center. Children’s motor skills are directly related to their speech abilities, and the team looks forward to hearing Rosquita’s discussion on developmental milestones and red flags of delayed motor abilities as it relates…
Speech Continuing Education
This past Thursday, the speech team was honored to have pediatric psychologist Shelley Mackaman, PhD present at their weekly grand rounds meeting. Dr. Mackaman presented to the group on ways to better reach and counsel parents through their child’s time in therapy. The group learned training techniques to help parents become facilitators in their child’s…
Now Accepting 2011 Internship Applicants
Throughout the 2010 calendar year, Evergreen has offered 14 part-time and full-time internship and externship positions to highly qualified students from around the country. Evergreen is one of a very select group of private practices in the Pacific Northwest offering internship and externship opportunities. Students apply to study at the clinic from two to six…
ESHC Welcomes A New Team Member
The speech team is excited to announce the addition of new team member, Amanda Melde to the Kirkland office. Amanda joins the speech team as a speech account coordinator. She will be available to assist with any scheduling needs for our speech patients.
Speech Continuing Education
The speech team continues to work on professional development and continued education. Over the past month here are some of the educational achievements completed by the program members.
Celebrate International Stuttering Awareness Day
Join us in the celebration of International Stuttering Awareness Day (ISAD). The day was created to help raise awareness about the challenges that people who stutter experience. ISAD provides a framework for building a more humane, just and compassionate world for millions of people who stutter.
Speech Team Education Round Up
The speech team here at Evergreen has been busy with continuing education. During the fall months the group has taken courses online and working together to learn more about each topic.
Celebrating 30 Years This Week
This week we continue our celebration of 30 years of service with a special event in all three of our office locations. The three-day event brings digital hearing instrument expert Rich Morgan to our clinic to meet with our patients and help them decide what hearing solutions might be best for them.
Parent Stuttering Support Group
We are inviting the parents of children who stutter to join us in an evening of conversation and support on Wednesday, September 30th in our Kirkland office. If you are interested in joining us please email Jody at jnorwood@everhear.com or call 425.882.4347 to RSVP for this event.
Super Summer Readers
A HUGE Congratulations goes out to our Super Summer Readers! We had 18 kiddos from our speech program take on the challenge of reading 8 hours during the months of July and August. Not only did all 18 Super Readers read 8 hours, they all went above and beyond, some reading as many as 30…