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Advice From a Senior SLP: Finding Your First Therapist Job
Advice from a Senior SLP: Finding your First Therapist Job By Kristin Blanchard It’s your last semester of graduate school and you’ve completed exams. And now, there’s a flurry of chatter amongst your fellow “Type A” peers about their job hunt. Don’t panic! You’re in a great field and everyone, yes, everyone (even the person

Join a Winning Team of Speech/Language, Occupational & Physical Therapists
Demand for therapy services is growing and we need excellent physical, occupational and speech/language therapists. Learn why you should join our winning team.

Growing Mariposa’s Vision By Mentoring Speech, Occupational and Physical Therapists
We grow our Phoenix practice and our vision by mentoring speech, occupational and physical therapists and helping them meet their career goals. Learn more.

Ahwatukee Foothills News Profiles Mariposa Founders
Thank you, Ahwatukee Foothills News, for the great coverage of our amazing Founders, Kristin and Danielle. Hear their story about how they turned a “meeting of the moms” into a force for helping kids and adults with speech therapy, occupational therapy and physical therapy. Read the full story here.

Different Types of Speech Problems
When your child starts having trouble pronouncing some words, or saying certain sounds, you might have to consider taking your child to see a speech therapist. But, what exactly do speech therapists help with exactly? Speech therapists, or speech pathologists, can help out with a variety of problems associated with children and their speech patterns.

Toddler Speech Issues
It can be difficult to list specific speech problems with young children, as they are just learning to speak, but it is important to know what to expect. Children will commonly mispronounce words, or use certain letters in place of others, without there being any need for concern. In fact, many of these “issues” can

Environment Affects on Your Child
Are you constantly thinking of various techniques and methods to get your child to start talking? Speech language therapists have a lot of tricks up their sleeves to help you out. One most commonly used is “Communication Temptations” (Wetherby and Prizant, 1989). This little strategy can be used to help a late-talker start talking, to