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  • It was a university degree in the UK , and then I worked for the NHS for a number of years (until I moved to France and a much more relaxing job teaching at a university). I mostly specialised in pediatrics, particularly ASD and other developmental conditions. If I'd stayed with adults I would have focused on Aphasia and acquired language disorders. I found neurology very fun, and the way that damage could reveal the maaany faculties required for effective communication was super intresting to me.

    LSVT is certainly well-evidenced and I've seen it be very effective. But it's quite repetitive, so colleagues who did a lot of it sometimes complained of not getting a chance to be creative in their approaches, just having to stick to the protocol.

    Dysphagia is a bit scary, but it makes such an incredible difference. Even many years after working with stroke survivors, every time I'm incredibly thirsty I think about the poor folks who were 'nil by mouth' and so desperately wanted a mouthful of water. Having a nurse swab your mouth is really not the same. Doing a swallowing check with them and giving the nurses permission to give them some fluids (even if they had to be weird and thick) completely transformed their day.

    Good luck with your studies! It's a very rewarding career!

  • Social stories can be really helpful for all sorts of things. But it really depends the individual and what their strengths and needs are. I've worked with children with ASD and they've been great readers, but struggled with verbal communication and understanding social expectations. For them having a short focused 'story' that explained how to ask a question in class, or how to share with a friend, can be really helpful.

    I've also seen them be effective with adults with learning difficulties. But often that's more because it trains the carers and family members around them. Not only does it fix the language so that the same thing is explained the same way everytime, and in appropriate language, but the process of writing the story and trying to articulate a piece of advice into concrete simple language can help 'normal' people realise how complex the 'simple rule' they want to communicate actually is. "don't talk to strangers" is the sort of advice people give, but what's a stranger, how does someone become 'known', what about a police officer? Or even a waiter?

  • Yeah, I'm the opposite. When I'm sitting around a table with friends I feel invested in the moment. When I'm listening to someone speak into a mediocre mic and watching their poorly lit face, I'm hyperconcious that I'm starting at a screen. Which makes it feel more like work than fun.

    My hope was that if people were Roleplaying as hackers or at the different stations on the bridge of a starship, then the lag and crackle would be thematic rather than annoying.

    But I get why some folks prefer it! Wish that was me, it would be much more convenient!

  • But don't we have lots of insults for other categories of people? People call people soyboys, incels, tankies, fashy, bible thumper, nepo babies or basement dweller.

    Aren't those just the modern version of "jocks" and "limeys" (I went for those because I'm Scottish and British, you can mentally fill in the alternatives...)

  • Love warehouse 13! Like eureka, it's kinda silly, but good heartwarming fun. Definitely good inspiration for dnd campaigns. I've always wanted to rip it off but set in planescape. Sending players to different planes to pick up weird artifacts without blowing their covers.

  • I'd say, post as often as you can be bothered and make interesting content. I rarely pay attention to the username beside a post, so I'm unlikely to judge that it's the same person who posts 99% of posts in a less popular community. But if I see lots of examples of posts on a topic, it's easier for me to remember about it and think "I'll post there".

  • that's a cool hobby! I used to love watching the parts of my tape deck move as a kid. Te parts clunking into pace, the gentle pace of the rotation. That's a very nice player you've got!

  • What interface/appnare you using? On boost its exactly the same process for upvotes or downvotes. I don't think an extra step would make any difference, I don't downvote very often and when I do it's because I think it's worth doing.

  • I read some piece of advice a while back (on lemmy I think) about when to talk, "Does it need said? Does it need said right now? Does it need said by you?" and it really stuck with me.

    I'm definitely a talker, and my friends and family will talk all day. But I know my partner can find it a bit much, so having a basic rule has been surprisingly helpful. I might want to tell him about the intresting thing that I read, but does he really want to hear that? We might need to talk about something important but stressful, maybe bringing it up just before bed isn't the best idea?

    It is all pretty obvious stuff, but I spent three decades only really spending time with people who talked all the time too. I didn't need to worry about bringing something up at the wrong time, because if I did, they would immediately say "oh I don't want to talk about that because...." and explain or change the subject. I didn't worry about a conversation being uninteresting, because if it was we'd quickly tangent into something that worked for us both.

  • Yeah, the fact that "angrily doing something to prove a point" is much more effective than "knowing it's important and promising to do it" leads to some unhealthy relationship dynamics...

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