Shaking Up States

Jeanette Benigas53min

Jeanette Benigas

00:00

Hey, fixers. I'm Dr Jeanette Benigas, the owner of fix SLP, a grassroots advocacy firm here to challenge the status quo in speech language pathology by driving real change from insurance regulations to removing barriers that prevent full autonomy like the CCC, this podcast is your space to learn, engage and take action in the field of speech language pathology. We don't wait for change. We make it so let's fix SLP!

Preston Lewis

00:46

Happy New Year, fixers, we are back. It's 2025 and I don't know. I've been looking through the news, and I can't believe it. There are no headlines. There are no big tags on the screen. What the hell is going on? We have 1000s of SLPs out there right now which are not clinically competent, because they're either waiting toward january 31 to pay or they're like me, and they've said Sayonara, but I was expecting headlines Jeanette, Mikalya, are with me today, ladies, what the hell is going on? We've got clinically incompetent SLPs out there, according to ASHA.

Jeanette Benigas

01:28

Yep, I haven't paid I am the most incompetent person there is right now, leading this movement. I'm gonna have to but I haven't. Mikalya You and I have had some conversations, so we'll get to what we're talking about today, but Mikalya is on to help us discuss some of that. Mikalya, are you competent?

Mikayla Treynor

01:52

I am competent right now because I have a nationwide company that I work for that requires that you purchase the CCC by the end of the year. So that deadline is December 31 for me.

Jeanette Benigas

02:09

Well, thank God somebody is on this podcast who's competent, but you also didn't renew membership, and then we you and I decided that probably you should get it. So we were saying that Mikalya, we tried to be transparent. We were saying that Mikalya was going to drop her membership, but at very last minute, just a few days ago, you called and reinstated it didn't you?

Mikayla Treynor

02:35

I did. So originally, I did drop it, and then I got a phone call from Jeanette, who thought it might be a good idea to keep it for a bit longer based on the work situation that I'm currently in.

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