The Lies We Keep Telling Ourselves

Jeanette Benigas36min

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

If you're going to be bad at something, not paying your taxes, a damn good thing to be not great at.

Jeanette Benigas

00:52

Hey everybody, welcome back. It's Jeanette and Preston and I are both here. Thank goodness. Yeah, it is 1230 in the afternoon. My time. We just had like an ADHD moment, and we were starting to talk about scheduling for tomorrow, and we were both free. So we said, let's go. So here we are, present. Carpe Diem, great. Here we are. We're going to have a probably a little bit shorter episode today, because I have an appointment. Anything you want to update us on Preston, anything you want to say?

Preston Lewis

01:25

Just glad to be here. You know, I recognize for all of us, these are challenging times, and yeah, this past week, I kind of ghosted Jeanette for the previous episode. Felt bad about that, but I got busy in a project out in the backyard and realized I am not as young as I used to be, and got lifting all these heavy bags for this raised garden project, and my back was just killing me, and I was laying in bed, and I thought, Wait, I'm supposed to record a pod. So folks, these things happen. We're just, we're just trying to do these things. But Jeanette, I was fired up this week because it's those refrain of mistruths and lies and just old stories. And this week, I heard one that just really kind of hit me right upside the head yesterday, that we don't have 50 state licensing boards, and here we go again. I mean, in spite of all of the education, all of the information that is out there and readily available. Here's that dirty lie coming back from the depths.

Jeanette Benigas

02:25

Yeah, so we just decided real quick that today we're going to call this the lies we keep, the lies we continue to tell ourselves, or it'll be something like that. But yeah, of course, we have a state licensing board in all 50 states, plus Washington, DC. The last licensing board, depending on whose information you're looking at, was established in Colorado somewhere in 2016 or 2017 and what that did was transfer completely the power and control and regulation of our field to the states and away from the American Speech Language and Hearing Association who did not have Regulation Authority in the first place. So it was a good thing. It is existing in all of the states. Please continue to educate your friends, colleagues and people on the internet who spread information, probably not on purpose, but because they have not kept up.

Preston Lewis

03:27

It's just old data. It's like those old forms that we see in some states with their Medicaid divisions or with insurance companies, where they're just blind to the fact that we have state licenses, and that's such a bastardization of the whole process of being an SLP, and that's what we're here for. So yes, if you find these poor lost, wandering souls out there that are still looking up to big daddy ashes, the only you know SLP, father mother figure in their life, please send them our way. And let's just paint a picture of another world out there that now exists and has been for some time. That public service announcement is brought to you by the friendly folks at fix. SLP, so job listings, yeah, another one we get. A lot right?

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