SLP Coffee Talk
SLP Coffee Talk
Hallie Sherman
Beyond the Myth: Socioeconomic Status and Language Development
21 minutes Posted Dec 22, 2025 at 11:00 am.
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In this episode of SLP Coffee Talk, Hallie sits down with Kylie Helm — school SLP, private practice owner, and PhD student who’s doing the research we all desperately need. Kylie shares how growing up low-SES herself and then working in a Title I school opened her eyes to the massive disconnect between what grad school teaches us and what these kids actually need. She gets real about the dangerous assumptions SLPs make (spoiler: poverty ≠ language disorder), why standardized vocabulary tests ...