Our idea for training special educators as para-speech therapists started out as an email to a few friends. When they responded positively, we decided to send the email to everyone on our mailing list.

The funniest connections occurred: a professor of comparative literature in Massachusetts got the mail and sent it to a friend of his who was a professor of speech therapy. She posted it on her bulletin board and several students wrote to us to ask about the job. An old college roommate of the sister of one of our staff got it (in Chicago) and sent it to her own daughter’s therapist. She wrote and is seriously considering taking up the job. A friend in Bombay – an HR person for a big corporation – sent it to a friend of hers who sent it to someone in Malta who was all set to come until she discovered she was pregnant! But she  sent it to another friend, also in Malta, who is now in correspondence with us.

And finally, someone – we still aren’t sure who – sent it to the Bulletin of the Royal Society of Speech Therapy in London. The bulletin is the most prestigious journal in the field in the UK. One of the editors decided to run it as a small ad in the latest issue and we have been flooded with responses ever since! A dozen, at last count – all wonderful, vibrant people, all eager to do something to make the world a better place. Networking!!!