Pacific Coast Speech Services

05/24/2025

Thank you to the CDE for this recognition of school-based SLPs!

Say It Loud: Thank You, School Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs)!

We thank and sincerely appreciate the vital contributions of our state’s SLPs in supporting and helping individuals, especially children, overcome communication barriers. SLPs are utilized in schools, hospitals, and clinics, and often collaborate with audiologists, occupational therapists, and physical therapists to create and implement individualized treatment plans.

Tag an SLP in the comments and show them some love! 💬❤️

05/24/2025

Thank you to the CDE for this recognition!

Say It Loud: Thank You, School Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs)!

We thank and sincerely appreciate the vital contributions of our state’s SLPs in supporting and helping individuals, especially children, overcome communication barriers. SLPs are utilized in schools, hospitals, and clinics, and often collaborate with audiologists, occupational therapists, and physical therapists to create and implement individualized treatment plans.

Tag an SLP in the comments and show them some love! 💬❤️

05/24/2025

Say It Loud: Thank You, School Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs)!

We thank and sincerely appreciate the vital contributions of our state’s SLPs in supporting and helping individuals, especially children, overcome communication barriers. SLPs are utilized in schools, hospitals, and clinics, and often collaborate with audiologists, occupational therapists, and physical therapists to create and implement individualized treatment plans.

Tag an SLP in the comments and show them some love! 💬❤️

01/09/2025

THREE CHEERS FOR THE LICENSING BOARD!!! As of Jan 1, the number of hours that licensees can do in recorded or self study sessions has DOUBLED to 12 per licensing cycle. Read the details on our blog here, which links to the specific page on the website. Thank you to the CSHA and other SLP advocates who worked hard for this modification.

Changes to the CA SLP Licensing Board CEU Policies! Hooray! View Larger Image Hooray!! As of Jan 1, 2025, the number of self-study (non-live) hours to renew a speech pathologist’s license in CA has doubled to 12 CEU units per licensing cycle. Please see the chart linked below for the new requireme...

03/19/2024

California SLPs in ALL settings! CSHA is working VERY hard with the legislators to modify the laws governing our workload (including Ed Code and others). They desperately need a large number of responses to this survey to show how widespread the issue is in our state. Could you please take a moment to fill out this brief survey, and share it with your workmates and friends? The more responses, the likelier they are to take the issue seriously. THANK YOU!

11/17/2023

Who needs literacy resources by GOAL? Bilinguistics is such a great site for resources: they've done it again with this list of recommended books for specific goals (phonology, following directions, fluency, etc). Check it out!

Bilinguistics has created the literacy link you have been looking for! Their article (primary focus-elementary) has specific book titles chosen by speech pathologists to target specific sounds, language, fluency, voice and language. Bilinguistics is known for its bilingual resources. Be sure you inv...

11/01/2023

You've got your feet in the door, you are starting to feel more under control, but there is SO MUCH to do!!! How can you simplify and stay calm?

HOORAY! By our calculations, you are finishing the first months of your first year of practice as a speech language pathologist. Amazing! Our staff clinicians have a few recommendations for this time in your career: Ask More Questions. New learning is intense in the first three months. After the fir...

06/09/2023

Annette Crotty and Louise Valente, our Directors of 35 years, are proud to announce our acquisition by and partnership with the Point Quest Group. We chose Point Quest because of our shared passion to treat our employees and district partners with extreme respect and honor, as they are the reason for our success! Louise and Annette remain in place as Directors, and are excited to learn and grow with the leadership of Point Quest. We are incredibly grateful for the support of our district partners, past and present, and 35 years of unbelievably amazing clinicians. We are looking forward to the future with energy and enthusiasm!

Elk Grove, CA., January 19, 2023 – Point Quest, LLC (“Point Quest”), a leading provider of adolescent behavioral health and special education services in California, primarily serving K-12 school districts, is pleased to announce its acquisition of Pacific Coast Speech Services Inc. (“Pacifi...

02/08/2023

Have you seen these amazing resources from CSHA? If you supervise graduate students, or are a graduate student, or have friends who are interested in moving to California, these are golden resources! THANKS CSHA!!! https://www.pacificcoastspeech.com/csha-resources-for-licensing-credentialing-asha-certification/

12/05/2022

What a beautiful day celebrating our incredible administrative staff, SLPAs, and SLPs!!!! We are incredibly grateful for every one of these spectacular humans every day. Special congratulations to our five newly licensed SLPs and Tina, Joel, Missy, Kari, and Jan on their work anniversaries!

08/23/2022

A challenge for the new year!

I noticed something on back-to-school orientation day that I can’t stop thinking about.

As excited students and parents milled around the high school halls, I chatted with a teacher that our family knows quite well.

Worriedly, she described a few of the new challenges she faced this year, on top of the usual ones. There was no denying what I saw when I looked into her eyes…

Her shine had been dulled.

I quickly motioned for my teenage daughter, who was across the hall talking to a friend, to join us.

“This teacher is going to need extra moral support this year,” I said to Avery with unexpected urgency in my voice.

My daughter nodded solemnly. As a highly observant human being, she saw it; she got it.

I’ve been attending back-to-school orientation, as a parent and as a teacher, for several decades of my life. Never once have I said those words to my children or my students…but that is where we are now.

I promise you, whether you know it or not, there is an educator in a building near you whose shine has dulled to the point of impending crisis.

The reasons are complex, and there are experts far more qualified than me to explain how we got to this dire situation—but one thing I know for sure is how desperately teachers need our support right now.

On the second day of school, I got a message from the teacher.

“Her timing is always perfect!” she wrote, referring to my daughter dropping by her room to brighten her day.

On Day 3, another message came: “This girl is such a breath of fresh air.”

When my daughter got home, I thanked her for checking on the teacher.

“What do you do that’s so special?” I asked.

Avery shrugged. “I just talk to her, ask how she’s doing, see if can help… you know, treat her like a person.”

In other words, she humanizes her teacher.

As in…

‘You are not a commodity
a door mat
an unlimited resource

You are not expendable
a warm body filling a position
a DJ taking requests

You are a human being; and you are worthy of being known, valued, respected, and safe.’

“I’m gonna try to visit her room every day for at least 15 minutes and see what I can do to help,” Avery added.

My friends, the difficult situation many of our educators are currently in is complex and overwhelming, but I think my daughter has revealed something we can all do:

Humanize teachers.

See them.
Value them.
Stand up for them.
Support them.

And encourage your kids to do the same.

It’s going to be another long, hard year ahead; let’s fiercely protect what little light is left.

© Rachel Macy Stafford 2022

Dear educators & school personnel of this online community, the comment section is open to you. We are listening. And if you only have energy for an emoji, please use that. Be seen & be affirmed by this community today. Our hand in yours.

08/20/2022

This spreadsheet/ labor of love was created by a group of excellent educator/tech people during COVID, and has a massive number of quick, superior tech instruction videos embedded. 2020 had such a steep learning curve for new technology - 2021 we reaped the benefits of the things we struggled with - and now 2022 is here and we are learning just a bit more to get stronger in our favorite new tools. Be sure you note that there is a different tab for non-Google products such as Schoolology and Jamboard, which are used by some of our districts. I know that I am going to focus on strengthening my skills at Google Forms - I look at my old school forms and they seem ancient now! Dip in and THANK YOU to the educators! rested in learning new tech tips for a specific need from a superior teacher.