BHSM Update

I finally made a plan for BHSM, and put together a bulletin board in the facility with a description about what SLPs do, as well as information on communication, cognitive and swallowing disorders. I was keeping it "bare bones" at first, but then I looked around at the boards that the activities department puts together. They are pretty fancy and flowery! So, I used a bright yellow background with green trim, and added some flowers and flourishes here and there. Still, not too frou-frou.

One of my cognitive patients helped me with it as part of a problem solving task. This was only 15 minutes of our tx time that day, and I really had the board all planned out, but measuring and laying out the background and the borders was a good problem solving task, and now she tells everyone that she helped design it. She's quite proud! It looks pretty good, if I do say so myself.

I added a "BHSM Fact of the Day" space, which I made by taking a plastic page protector and taping a border around it to make a frame. I slip a different fact about speech, hearing, swallowing, communication etc. into it each morning.

I think that on the last week of BHSM, I will make up a short quiz based on the Fact of the Day information that I used, and give a small prize to whomever gets the most correct.

Any other SLPs in the SNFs (or anywhere) doing anything this month?