edmonton slp conference

On Friday, Burns and I attended Jordan and Caitlin Wood's reception. It was basically a Wood family reunion (Burns' family) so it was fun to see all the cousins and aunts and uncles. After which we headed to Edmonton for the weekend!!!

We stayed at Langstaff's for the night and they were so hospitable! Burns then dropped me off at the UofA for my Speech-Language Pathology Conference. It was soooo helpful! I loved it.

The first speaker talked about speech disorders in general and she introduced us to "her" kids (the children she worked with). She also let us know what it was like to work in a hospital kind of setting - the Glenrose.

I went to the second session and attended the talk on cleft lip/palate. It was pretty interesting but she mostly just talked about the computer programs she was analyzing.

After the second speaker I went to the Parent Panel session where lunch was served. Four parents were there and they talked about their experiences with SLPs and what they liked and disliked about their experiences. It was so interesting/cool to see the broad variety of family struggles.

The third session was "How to Survive the Application Process". This was extremely helpful because one of the ladies who actually reviews applications to get into Grad school presented some do's and don'ts for our applications.

The last session was about cochlear implants. A deaf man with cochlear implants came to speak to us. I could hardly understand what he was saying but it goes to show how difficult it would be for him to understand what hearing people say. This is because he models his speech after what he hears. He has Usher Syndrome so he is peripherally blind (tunnel vision) as well. Meanwhile Burns sat in the car pretty much the whole time with Kobe and he studied for his Chem test.

We then headed to Jordan and Julie Goldthorp's. Another couple was there watching conference. Since it was conference, soon after we arrived the boys headed to Priesthood and the girls stayed behind to play games. Another girl showed up so there was four of us playing Bananagrams and Creationary. We then watched "Ramona and Beezus". It was cute.

The guys got back at around midnight because they went to another guy's house to play video games. The next day Jordan and Julie made Burns and me some delicious crepes! We watched conference then went on a nice, long walk. We had more crepes for lunch because there were enough leftovers, "watched" the last session of conference (I fell asleep) and then Burns and I headed home to Calgary.

Burns and I were certainly spoiled that morning. 

Goldthorps making breaky.

On our nice long walk.

We went down to the river.

CUTE!

There ends our Edmontonian adventure.