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We are discussing the biggest challenges that are currently holding back the field of speech-language pathology. We present the issues with facts and invite you to be a part of joining our movement to make things better, one conversation at a time. Let's fix SLP!
Hosted by Jeanette Benigas, PhD, SLP
Megan Berg 0:00
Hi, everyone. I'm Megan Berg
Jeanette Benigas 0:02
and I'm Dr. Jeanette Benigas.
Megan Berg 0:04
And we are here to fix SLP.
Jeanette Benigas 0:06
We are discussing the biggest challenges that are currently holding back the field of speech language pathology.
Megan Berg 0:12
We present the issues with facts and invite you to be part of joining our movement to make things better one conversation at a time.
Jeanette Benigas 0:19
Let's fix SLP.
Hey, everybody, welcome back to our next bonus episode, our extra fix. Today, we are going to be recording with Taylor from Ohio, the Ohio Speech Language and Hearing Association. Before we begin, I just want to preface the conversation by letting our listeners know that the views today are not reflective of Taylor's personal opinion, but instead are representative of the Ohio Speech Language and Hearing Association board as a whole. Hey, Taylor. Hi, Jeanette. Thanks for having me. You're welcome. I am so excited of all of the states that I wanted to be on this podcast. It was Ohio because I have I'm not going to give any spoiler alerts. But I have something big planned, at least big to me planned for the end.
But as a resident of Ohio, where I do the most practicing this was, you know, I'm biased, it was most important to me. So I am really excited to talk to you today about all of the things. But before we start with all of the things I want you to tell me about yourself.
Taylor Hahn 1:47
So my name is Taylor Han and I am a private practice clinician in the Northwest Ohio area. I serve as the servant to positions as the director of membership. And I also serve as a co director of Student Affairs and clinical education with my other co director, Samantha English. And so I do a lot right now for for oshoala and have been learning so much about the advocacy and how the process works with our state organization.
But a little bit more about me, I'm an adult medical SLP I do fees, endoscopy I used to destroy Boska p and n en t office, I've worked in about every setting you can think of with adults. And so that was another bonus for joining OSHA was to share my knowledge of the medical world to, you know, incoming SLPs and help them avoid that lonely dysphasia island that we sometimes sit on was a big one for me.
But yeah, I'm excited to answer some more questions and tell you more about our organization. I'm sure we've talked about this, but my short term memory is
Jeanette Benigas 3:19
like only 25% functional.
Are you in a University of Toledo alumni?
Taylor Hahn 3:25
I sure am.
Jeanette Benigas 3:25
Yes. Okay, proud ut alums right here. That's not where I went to grad school. It's I only did undergrad there. And then I drove to Michigan to Eastern Michigan for grad school. So, um, did you just again, short term memory 25% functional? You didn't tell us a hobby or something fun that you do in your spare time, did you? No, no.
Taylor Hahn 3:47
So in my spare time, I'm an avid video gamer. Big cozy gamer. I love games that give you the option to have like a simulation or do a bunch of different cool things like The Sims or you know
Baldurs Gate three. So those are my my two little video game hobbies, mostly that I focus on right now. And then I also have a one year old daughter that I spend lots of time with another benefit of having a private practice that I can spend a couple of days a week with my baby and make sure that she is just getting all the lessons that she needs. Nice. All right, so
Jeanette Benigas 4:30
obviously you love the Ohio Speech Language and Hearing Association enough that you joined the board. So what do you love about your association? Honestly, I initially knew about OSHA because of the conference, the University of Toledo really encouraged us to attend the conference and the in person conference was so fun. That was a networking opportunity. You know in past years before you know
Taylor Hahn 5:00
A pandemic, we it was such a big event and there was so much excitement around it. And when that disappeared, it was really sad. It was it was a really sad time where they tried the virtual conference. It just it wasn't it didn't work for OSHA, as it did, maybe for other organizations. And so I really would like to revive it. And so I would love to revive the excitement around OSHA and bring people back into the advocacy, you know, groups, especially because we have a lot of power at the state level that we don't realize. So that's what I love about it is that it's an opportunity to really impact the day to day lives of Speech, Language Pathologists and Audiologists in our entire state. Yeah, state convention conferences are a great thing. All right, what is one area of advocacy that your state has undertaken, or our state has undertaken in previous years that has made a difference for clinicians? The one area of advocacy that OSHA has really been pushing for are changing some of these laws regarding reimbursement requirements for hearing aids, specifically, Madeline's law. And so our Ohio Speech and Hearing Governmental Affairs Coalition, also known as ocef, GAC, which is the coalition that we use with oshoala to advocate in Ohio.
Between like the lobbyists and the
words, the house, I don't know, what the, you know, Congress, between the EU and the government. Yeah, basically, that's in the government, right. And so I wish GAC advocates, you know, really closely with those higher members of the government that normal people are not necessarily going to be able to talk to. And so our Director of Advocacy, I believe, is Amy Tepper. And so she's really the one that works very closely with OSHA gag and getting some things done. And so OSHA gag very like as of I want to say, very recently, early this month, we improved hearing aid reimbursement rates for adults to now match the reimbursement provided for youth hearing aids.
There was some input from OSHA check on the Medicaid rate increase meant over the number of CPT codes. But I do want to give a shout out to Bree Pickens and her team, because they really did a number, there's a number of names I'm not, I'm not saying here, I would just like to shout out that, you know, they did the legwork here on getting a lot of this advocacy done for the Medicaid rates. But I do know OSHA acted a little bit of stepping in and helped with that Bree reached out to me when I started my private practice, she asked me to write a letter that she could take with her to these advocacy meetings. And honestly, that was another reason why I wanted to be involved with OSHA and be more involved with the state, at the state level, especially as a private practice owner, you know, you don't realize where we get paid and why our pay is so low, until you get a look at these reimbursement rates. And you really see how much they impact that. And so OSHA really understands that the board understands how this works. And so we've also been spearheading those efforts for the interstate licensure compact as well. That's been a huge one, to allow for people to more easily go across state border. So for me, for example, I had to maintain, you know, the the two state licenses between Ohio and Michigan, you for PA and Ohio, it adds up and so having this Interstate Compact is going to be a really, really great thing. And oshoala And our advocacy team is working very closely with the the groups that are spearheading that post GAC also helped work, help work on some legislation that would give school based speech language pathologists a longer period of time to identify and diagnose developmental delays in school aged children. And that would be that's SB 356. And HB 554. If you wanted to look into that a little bit more so that is really awesome.
But, you know, as far as it goes, I feel like we are also starting to, with I mean, truthfully, with my entrance, I have a lot of passion and a lot of fire and I'm really hoping to, you know, talk, talk to the board more and get more of these, you know, productivity things that we want to work on, addressed for, you know, SLPs in absolutely every area of of work, whether it's with adults or children. So we we really have been
taking on huge things in the last few years.
but it just it doesn't seem like it because especially with a pandemic, things have slowed down, there wasn't a whole lot of
communication, not a lot of people meeting, doing everything via zoom was very difficult. So, you know, I wanted to make sure I wanted to highlight a few things that we had actually been working on in different areas that was really excited about.
Jeanette Benigas 10:20
So what's something that Ohio is working on now.
Taylor Hahn 10:24
So right now, we're actually in a huge push for more affordable CPUs. We want to offer people an opportunity to fill the gap of education, especially coming out of our like CF, or into our CF mentorships. And out of graduate school, I know that our CF, our mentors are are there for us. But sometimes, we are a little too proud, I think to ask for that help or maybe don't know the questions to ask. And so we're really pushing more for the online and in person CPUs, to give more affordable options to continue learning as we are forever learners in our profession. And things constantly change. And, you know, we come across new research. And so I want OSHA to be able to be on the front of that, and to have that accessible to anybody from anywhere in the state ideally.
And I know that they've done a couple of things already with that. And there is I think, on speech pathology.com, there's a C A d AI certificate that we had put together and offered two or three years ago, which actually includes an anti fat bias, which you don't really see very often anywhere. So that's kind of like you think about like unique topics that many people aren't necessarily talking about, we want to bring those to the plate for oshoala and offer those to our members. That's interesting.
Jeanette Benigas 12:01
So is there anything clinicians can do to better support the efforts you have going on right now? Honestly, we, we really just need participants like we I've been trying to get a big push for social media. I'm myself, I'm very involved on there, I see lots of comments on ashes page in Facebook groups. So I'm trying to get more people
Taylor Hahn 12:26
just looking at our social media page, maybe get its growth up a little bit more and start sharing more information, because we do send out, you know, news flyers and, and things via email. But to me, what's most efficient is for people to you know, be scrolling on their phones as they do on their news feeds. And there's OSHA law, hey, we're looking for papers, looking for presenters, we're looking for people to help advocate for this area. For me, I'm going to be filling a lot, a lot of chairs and committees. So, you know, being on social media and kind of interacting with our page will actually help when I need something when I'm going to reach out and say, Hey, I need your guys's help, or I need to fill these seats, you'll be right there on the forefront to say, All right, I'm here for you. So not just Ohio, but any state any state cause go find your seat on Instagram on social media, any social media platform, you know, Facebook, find them like um, and then even if it's not something you're interested in, when you see a post from them, like it bump that algorithm like yes, comment. Yeah, comment, the more the more interaction those posts get, the more people see it. So it's another great way to support your state. And that's, you know, and fix SLP guys, even if you don't, you know, don't even just like given so hard right that that bumps the algorithm, more people see it, which means more people then join and these things snowball So pause, go find your sit, then come on back. Yes, like, share, follow up, bring it out because we're gonna be really doing a little push for more social media stuff so that we can get this to you in an easier and prettier format to be truthful. I'm sorry, Chelsea. I don't really read my emails that often especially since they go into like a separate folder thing on Gmail. They just don't get looked at so that's where you're gonna see a lot of news and push from us. So we would really appreciate your your support there and of course considering membership is always a you know thing we do pay our lobbyist and so any membership dues actually are going towards paying those lobbyists the
fees decent amount of money that you so that's a question I meant to add that you got this these questions before Megan and I decided we we thought it would be interesting to ask, do you
Jeanette Benigas 15:00
have any idea how much you pay the lobbyists? We actually OSHA doesn't specifically pay 100% of the lobbyist dues. It is in, in conjunction with two other associations. So it's the AAA.
Taylor Hahn 15:16
Oh, speak and oshoala. And the three of us pay this lobbyist, a question mark amount of money, I don't have the number in front of me, and I didn't see it in the motions.
But OSHA pays
a little over half of the lobbyist fees.
Which is, I mean, it's difficult because we've had a reduction in members. So it's another kind of reason why we want to keep our lobbyist around. But without a push in membership, it's definitely going to be difficult for us to maintain those lobbyist relationships. So it's kind of another one of those things that we're hoping to get a little bit more participation from people in our state to realize that this is quite valuable for you know, the the advocation for the amount that you spend each year.
Jeanette Benigas 16:14
For sounds actually do it. Yeah, I'll just jump in for everyone listening. If you don't know what Oh, speak is that is a membership association in Ohio for school speech pathologist and the AAA is for audiologists.
So you mentioned this a little bit earlier that you're you're looking towards maybe productivity, work load things, what's on the agenda for the future? Is there anything else you're hoping to advocate for or change in the state? Oh, my gosh, I mean, yes, we do have a lot of different things. But let me pull up really quick, our so on, when when you go onto OSHA's website, we actually do have our,
Taylor Hahn 16:55
our incentives, like what we're specifically working towards, and tracking. And that's going to be under our goals page. So
really, this year, of course, we want to focus on reimbursement, things like that. But we are kind of more along the lines of finance. So one of our main ones is just kind of getting the membership together and producing something that's profitable for the organization, that's also beneficial for clinicians.
We're focusing on education, getting those support and resources out. And then growing our student and Early professional membership, and increasing our membership engagement. So those are our incentives for the year specifically. And you can actually go on to Ohio, S L, H a.org. If you do the forward slash goals, you're gonna get to this page, and you're actually going to see on the page percentages, so we actually have somebody updating this, our past president comes every month and updates these percentages. And so those are our those are our initiatives for this year, in order to then, ideally next year, give a big push on those main issues that we want to really advocate for. But unfortunately, we have to operate as a profit first organization a little bit in order to work towards those really important issues and topics. You know, money runs the world, right? You need money to do these things. Even though you guys are all volunteers. The things that you are doing costs money, certainly.
Jeanette Benigas 18:36
So how does the association set the agenda from year to year? How do you decide what you're going to work on? Yeah, so every I believe it's July, the whole board meets, and that is the time that we brainstorm ideas and pick our goals and initiatives. And I believe in the past year or two, we have put out a survey asking our membership.
Taylor Hahn 19:06
Body, what are the most important things to them? I'm also familiar that Ohio did something similar like the state themselves. Greg Thornton, who is the kind of the head of the Ohio licensing board is often on our board meetings and updates us. And so they did their own survey on, you know, important initiatives as well, areas and topics for drive in the last few years also. So we refer to all these different
different sources to to kind of set the goals and initiatives for the next year. So we try to listen to our membership body, which is why I kind of want more participation from people especially in a social media format. If we were to say hey, we're about to have our meeting, you know, coming up to identify
Eyes, these, these areas of focus for the year, what would you like to see us add to our page, and to have a slew of comments would be the most amazing thing, in my opinion
that could just guide our principles and our methodologies for the next year.
I think it's important for SLP is not to be apathetic, I think it's not just unique to our field, I think it's just humans in general, that, you know, something,
Jeanette Benigas 20:32
people don't really get involved until it like is super affecting their lives. And sometimes, then it's a little late to start making changes. So, you know, when our state associations are asking for that kind of input, even if it's like a small bother to you, like, my caseload isn't that high, but it could be better, or I have friends who are really struggling with workload or productivity, or whatever it is, jumping in with those opinions will really help drive the agendas, I think of our state association. So it is important, especially at the state level to be giving that kind of feedback. And I can assure you, they're not sending one hour surveys that you know, I think these surveys are a lot shorter, and it and the likelihood that the things you care about, the likelihood that they'll be addressed is so much higher. Because I happen to know the the makeup of the Ohio Board and you do have a lot of practicing clinicians, audiologists, right and speech pathologist on Well, the one audiologist, I'm thinking of in particular, she's on the the licensing board. So I'll clarify that again, too. We've talked about it in another episode. But sometimes people don't know or understand or sometimes just not aware that the state licensing board that gives you your license to practice is separate from your state membership association, they are two different boards with two different things happening, just so that's clear. But yeah, it's not full of academic PhDs, you do have some PhDs on the board, but there's also practicing clinicians who care about the same things that the membership cares about. And so that's, that's important. It is very important. And although on the board specifically there, there is not an audiologist currently for oshoala. I do have on my committee, you know, I have got an audiologist, we talk about in our kind of doing a little push on the
Taylor Hahn 22:36
Student Affairs and clinical education side, we're looking at some of those universities saying hey, like, when are you? You know, what are we doing with audiology? How can we help support their profession also. So although it may not seem very apparent, because we don't have you know, a running list of audiologists directly on the board, we definitely do hear and have on our committees, our audiologists who absolutely are essential to advocating for for their profession and helping us
help other organizations like the AAA to advocate and in their own ways. And so we kind of do have a little group group effort going on here. It's really nice.
Jeanette Benigas 23:17
If someone were to join oshoala, what can that clinician expect as a member of your association, what are they going to get from you guys, that will make it worth it?
Taylor Hahn 23:29
First off, I really want to encourage people to reach out and connect with us. If they have questions about clinical practice, ethical situations, maybe they do need a soapbox to stand on and just vent to somebody. Maybe they need somebody just to talk to somebody who cares enough and understands where they're coming from, to just hear their complaints. And so although we do that for everybody, right, our members are going to get our top priority, they're going to get our resources and education that's available on the website that i can just send immediately and say, Hey, here's a resource for you to take advantage of for the scenario that you're in. So when you contact oshoala, through our contact page, or via our email, you know, our executive director is going to take that information and her team is going to send it to the appropriate board members so that we can help you address your problems, the more people who contact us and say, Hey, this is an issue I'm having, how can I have help solving it? The more we're going to kind of understand more day to day clinical problems as well, that we can then action on. We're getting a lot of contacts, Greg, about this issue specifically in speech language pathology. What does the Ohio licensing board say about it, you know, and kind of go from there or taking it to our OSHA GAC group and saying, Okay, can you please talk to somebody a little bit higher in the government that
that can comment on the fact that this is happening statewide or even on a national level, you know what I mean? And so that is definitely one of the most meaningful things that that I take from OSHA is that we are here for you, we are volunteers, the board is and everybody in our chairs and in our committees are volunteers. But they're, they're doing this because they want to help people, they, they, they have the desire to reach out and most of our, our individuals take students and, you know, they, they're participating with their universities in their cities. And so it just kind of is a networking opportunity as well to just get your name out.
Another thing we have on our website, too, is a job board.
And that's the job board is actually something interesting that I'm going to be taking on a little bit more in talking to the board about where maybe setting like standards like no job gets on this board, unless it has XYZ requirements, you know, and for the members, how valuable is that to know that like, on this job listing, your productivity is not going to be higher than 85%. Your caseload is not going to be higher than I don't even know what a children's caseload high would be 30 Is that low? Is that high? I don't know. I think 40.
Jeanette Benigas 26:21
But I was in the Ohio schools one year, I started with almost 80. That was before even kindergarteners were green. So that
Taylor Hahn 26:33
yes, I mean, exactly. Like, I was like, 30 sounds unreasonable to me. But um, you know, that's not even close to reality. And so, you know, we are we are just we're here for you guys. And membership opportunities, obviously just fund all the things that we do. And so in order to get the most out of your membership, you just have to participate. And you just have to be aware of what's going on, and kind of keep that little eye out on the side for those OSHA pings, emails and notifications so that you can take advantage. Yeah. So you said that the members can reach out so they can reach out for their ideas, concerns, you already said they can email that the the executive director will get it and pass it on. How does the so well, I guess you even said how the association handles those as they're received? Do you contact Greg, you, you know, you bring it up? You track what's coming up frequently. Okay. So then what?
Jeanette Benigas 27:34
What are your handles that what is your email? What? Where can they find you online? What, where should people go.
Taylor Hahn 27:42
So I think the easiest way to get to like an email or a contact or OSHA is to just go to the website, and they have the Contact Us button right at the top. You could also go to the Ohio, Ohio s lha.org. And you can do forward slash contact dash oshoala. And that'll get you to our contact page directly. Um, you know, I'm not sure what the exact email is for our, you know, direct email line, and it's really not listed website here.
You can call you can talk to Chelsea and she can get your information as well, the phone number is listed on the website. And I'll say it here just for fun, it's 937-855-4337. If you need to talk to somebody directly, if you have a very pertinent issue, that probably would be the best way, if you really needed to talk to somebody right away to get to our board is by phone at like the very last opportunity and fastest. You can also email me you know, the member of director of membership at info at Mommy Bay therapy.com. And I will direct your email to Chelsea or whoever it needs to go to. I'm totally here for the community. I'm, you know, I'm really going to be a big, big advocate here. And hopefully people are going to see me participating more. And, you know, online con, communications and just being a little bit more of an advocate in Ohio. So hopefully we'll be seeing my name all over the place, too.
But yeah, I think those are the best ways to get a hold of us is the contact form. And at most that phone number. And so that is the Oastler the membership board. But what I would like to jump in here and say too, is last week, I called the Ohio licensing board, because Megan and I had some questions specifically related to the interstate compact. So the best place for us to get answers is for me, you know, I just called the board because Greg Thornton is very involved with that. And he's one of our representatives. And I thought, well, what are the chances I'm going to be able to email this guy and I couldn't really quickly find his email, although I didn't really search that hard either. So I called the licensing board and it rang and rang and rang and I'm like you're telling me that you don't even have
Jeanette Benigas 29:59
have a place to leave a message. But finally someone picked up. And she's like, Oh, let me just connect you to his line. And I was like, Oh, okay. So I ended up getting his voicemail and I left a message and the man called me back in 20 minutes, like I called Megan. And I said, I'm probably not going to hear back from this guy, we're probably going to have, you might have to reach out to your own state, we're probably going to have to chase this down. 20 minutes later, he called and he spent 35 minutes on the phone with me. So I think that is awesome, too. And I know that has nothing to do with a membership association. But when you have questions like that, try calling your state licensing board to if there are questions or concerns, I mean, he's the executive director, there's, there's no one higher than him. And he called me back and answered all my questions, and was so kind and I was so appreciative. So I really give Greg a shout out, honestly. I mean, he's been doing this for a while now.
Taylor Hahn 30:57
I've been in SLP,
Jeanette Benigas 30:59
as long as I've been in SLP. So he's really great.
Taylor Hahn 31:03
We do we have Greg, join us, of course, on our on our board meetings to give us those updates and what the what the licensing board is planning. And so you have to think that OSHA, we do know, you know, the ones when we're there, we're all participating. And we're all invested in hearing what the licensing board has, has to say, because, you know, that's going to change things for us if it's not going our way. So yeah, we love hearing from Greg, we appreciate his insight. He's very, very smart. And he's also very, very organized. So I'm glad that he got back to you. Quickly. Yeah, I mean, I was so impressed. I, you know, I, in all the advocacy work we've been doing so far, it was like the fastest response that we've gotten.
Jeanette Benigas 31:46
So the moment we've all been waiting for, or maybe that I've been waiting for.
People can go to your website to join, do you know what the membership rates are? What, what are people looking at paying. So membership is $100. And all annual memberships expire on June 30.
Taylor Hahn 32:11
So just keep that in mind when signing up, that you'd be looking at a renewal coming up, potentially after six months here. But that is going to get you that discount on our conference, you know, save some money on that.
Almost I think $100 off of the conference truly, really pays for the membership in and of itself, if you want it to go to the conference.
But yeah, I mean, it's for non member, it's 360 to attend. And for an OSHA member, it's 250. So it's 110 students who want to join, it's 25 if there's an allied partner who wants to join, you know, could be PT OT, for some reason, any anybody else would be $50.
So those are different price ranges there. And just keep in mind that June 30 expiration date so that you're not surprised when we're knocking on your door for that renewal.
Jeanette Benigas 33:11
Okay, so you've never heard me say anything about volunteering for oshoala on this podcast, or on fixed SLP podcast, you've never heard me say if I'm a member or not. And one of the reasons that you have not heard me say that is because deep down inside, I was hoping you guys would come on and talk and as part of this process, I want to put my money where my mouth is and join the state association and join a committee so that's that's the exciting thing. Now I was
a member very early on in my career and I think I stopped being a member when I moved to Pennsylvania on the east coast to teach it I you know, I put I deactivated my license and I you know, I was gonna be gone but I never rejoined when I came back. So I'm gonna join right now live either.
Taylor Hahn 34:15
Yeah.
Jeanette Benigas 34:17
And this is where I I'd like to say
I can afford to do this because my employer does pay for my CCC. So I don't want people to think oh my gosh, I have to pay for my CCC and then they're telling me to like join my state association and she's on here joining two. I can only join I can only do this because my employer also pays for my PA membership. So out of pocket I paid nothing which is a great perk of my university. I am so thankful for that. So that is why I can afford this. I am not rolling in dough.
UCI only well you guys don't
See, because we're not putting video previews, but I own like the same, I wear the same three sweatshirts every time.
So
yeah, that's the only reason I can do this. So I just set a timer just so we can see how quick this process goes. But I've already, I used to have an account. But I already set up a new account just because I couldn't figure out my old login.
So I'm logging in, I am clicking the yellow box that says full membership. And by the way, it's $99, not 100. And if you're a fellow, it's 50, because I can see it here. So you said allied professional was 50. Also a fellow is 50. Student is 25. I'm telling them, I'm a speech pathologist. And I never know what to choose in these boxes, because I have so many freaking jobs.
Speech Pathologist, how about that? My primary work setting. Okay, then at once my secondary work setting, which is private practice, then my areas of interest, which are swallowing neurogenic stuff. It's also asking for education level numbers of year in the profession, other membership association, membership stuff in here, I declined liability insurance. I don't want a certificate, because you do you do offer that for $8. And I'm not going to sorry, I'm not going to make any donations, but I will give you my time. $99.
Taylor Hahn 36:43
You know, we just have to ask
Jeanette Benigas 36:47
where do I you can get a coupon code? Where do I do get that at? Sometimes we offer like deals on the membership. For example, when we ran our little mini student series back in Oh, what did me and Sam do that September,
Taylor Hahn 37:05
we gave the students like $5 off their membership for attending the series. So it covered like the cost of the series. So you got to be on the lookout. Sometimes we do fun stuff like that, too.
Jeanette Benigas 37:18
I'll take a discount for putting on the podcast. Right? Oh my gosh.
Okay, by placing my order, I accept the terms and conditions.
Unknown Speaker 37:31
Done.
Taylor Hahn 37:32
Yeah. gratulations. I am a full member, I've got an order number, everything. And so now, I've already warned you, by the way that took five minutes. So five minutes of your time and $99 and you're into. Um, I've already warned you. And you probably haven't decided yet, but you put me wherever you need me on whatever committee and I'm it. I love it. Now, a volunteer of the Pennsylvania Speech Language and Hearing Association and the Ohio one I'm in, call me.
For you. I appreciate that so much really, I mean, honestly, this this new directorship and kind of being like a co director is it is overwhelming, you come in to this organization. And sometimes you don't even get to talk to the previous director, but you just you learn as you go, and you pick up on all the things that are are necessary and kind of matter to members and students, and you hone in on those. And that's kind of what my job is and what I hope to do for this organization and continue bringing my passion, my fire and my energy along with it. I love your energy to Jeanette. I mean, I think that it's we're gonna work so well together, you know, on our committees and on our seats that that we'll work together on I appreciate so much your time and your dedication to our profession and our, our colleagues and clinicians to help us advocate for ourselves in the most effective way that we can. So the fact that you're spreading this information and getting this information to as many SLPs as we can is it's such an honor to join you in this, you know, opportunity. So thank you for having me again. Sure. And thank you for coming on. I mean it we had to reschedule I don't know a couple of times me I bet Thank you. So thank you for like I still would have joined if even if you guys wouldn't have agreed to come on I would have done it because Megan and I do very much believe that we need to be doing the things that we say we're recommending to the extent that we are able you know I'm not able right now to do everything we recommend but I can join my state association and I can support you guys.
Jeanette Benigas 39:57
You know I'm obviously spread a little thin but I
Do you think there are things I can still do to help with convention planning or social media posting, or whatever it is? There's always time to do something small. So yes, so thank you for such a great episode. Loved it. Is there anything else you want to say before we sign off?
Taylor Hahn 40:17
I think I'm think I'm good. Um, I really appreciate it again, thank you for your time. And, you know, thanks for everybody who's listening and spent time hearing me babble today
Jeanette Benigas 40:30
was great. So that'll be it.
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