I want to understand what my clients need to do in order to access health insurance for academic language therapy for dyslexia, so I'm testing it on my own insurance plan. It has not gone well. Let me preface this by saying that I believe my particular insurer - UnitedHealthcare - is not a great... Continue Reading →
I wrote an email to a luminary in the science of reading yesterday. He's a big shot - he's led school systems and government panels on reading and advised more than one president. He's got lots of letters after his name. He writes a blog where he reviews the literature and discusses what it means... Continue Reading →
Someone asked a job/career board earlier this week "what graduate degree should I get after being laid off?" A perfectly fine question, but it struck me as backwards. The question came from a view of themselves as lacking, as deficient. This person wasn't asking what they might do with the skills they had, or how... Continue Reading →
Rowing has a term for a person in their first year of competition - a novice. I was 14 in my novice year, exhilarated and subsumed, like anyone newly in love. Everything about rowing interested me, from the intricacies of the stroke to the way we put the riggers on the boat. I was a... Continue Reading →
I do hate that word. It has wormed its way into work-speak and we now pivot everything, from lunch plans to strategies to careers. The thing is, its actually a pretty evocative and accurate description of a thing many of us are doing right about now. Including me. I've loved public health since I went... Continue Reading →
Well, this was unexpected. The work world we know has come apart at the seams, and we are all unraveled, our separate threads cast to the four winds. We are up in the air. Or at least I am. There are two elements of my own personal un-tethering. The first un-tethering is personal, and sad.... Continue Reading →
When my son was small and interested in science after binge-watching Sid the Science Kid we enrolled him in a study of behavior and the brain. You know, for fun. He spent a couple of mornings at the University of Maryland playing with graduate students, including taking the famous Marshmallow Test. (I'm sure he ate... Continue Reading →
There are people out there with life plans, lists of goals and how they'll get where they want to go. That has never been me - I've taken an opportunistic, it'll-all-work-out-somehow approach to my life's unfolding. Of course I have desires and worries, hopes and fears, and ideas on how to achieve the first and... Continue Reading →
With great naivete (or perhaps willful blindness) I signed my baseball-loving son up for a travel baseball team. My husband and I only have the one kid, and other, larger families seem to manage the time commitment, so why not us? Apparently we are not other people, which is a lesson I should have learned... Continue Reading →
I've been feeling nostalgic for the years when I entered the workforce, way back in the 1990's. As a case worker in 1996 there was no email, no electronic case notes, no Outlook calendar. There wasn't even a computer on my desk. When I started at CCP in 2000 I did have a computer and... Continue Reading →
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