1KHO 821: What Happened to Half-Day Kindergarten? | Jordyn Koveleski Gorman, Eat, Play, Say

**Ginny Yurich** (0:00)
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Welcome to The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast. My name is Ginny Yurich. I'm the founder of 1000 Hours Outside. And I have someone today who's going to be able to answer, I think, all of your questions, all the questions that you could have. Jordyn Koveleski Gorman, welcome.

**Jordyn Koveleski Gorman** (1:27)
Thank you so much for having me. I'm so pumped to be here.

**Ginny Yurich** (1:30)
Okay. So you have got this platform. Is that what you would say?

**Jordyn Koveleski Gorman** (1:34)
Yeah, I think so. Okay.

**Ginny Yurich** (1:35)
Platform Eat Play Say. And this is a place where parents, especially parents of younger kids, can go and find basically all the information that they need. Because so many things are piecemeal. It's really tricky. You have these kids and you're just kind of like, I don't know.
And things are so different than they used to be, or there's just such a glut of information. Can you talk about your back story of what you've learned over the years, your schooling, and then why you decided to create Eat Place A?

**Jordyn Koveleski Gorman** (2:06)
Yeah. So by trade, I'm a pediatric speech language pathologist and I have a specialization in feeding, feeding babies and toddlers. That's what I did right before I started having my own kids.
Such a passion. I love it. Love working with families.

**Ginny Yurich** (2:19)
Can you talk more about that? Because I read that on your website. I'd actually never heard of that. When you think, we had one kid that needed some speech language help with the K sound and the T sound and those types of things.
But I didn't know at all that a part of speech language pathology includes feeding.

**Jordyn Koveleski Gorman** (2:40)
Yeah. It's funny.
We always joke that if we had a title that included everything we could possibly do in our scope of practice, it would be like 26 words long. It would just be crazy.

**Ginny Yurich** (2:50)
Like what?

**Jordyn Koveleski Gorman** (2:51)
So like you can work with adults, voice, cognition, executive functioning, feeding, bottle feeding, breastfeeding, articulation, stuttering, language, children with autism, children with Down syndrome. We work with literally everybody. There's so many things, but typically you specialize in something because to know all of that and be an expert in all of that, you would have to live like four lives in order to do that.

**Ginny Yurich** (3:17)
But that's so many things that I mean, the only thing I knew that a speech language pathologist, I would think if you got a child and they're a little late, and I'm saying late in quotes because I know kids develop at all different ages.
We've had kids that talked at all different ages and friends, kids that talked at different ages and stages. So I would think, okay, if you've got a in quotes late talker, you would use a speech language pathologist or if they're pronouncing words wrong, or like you said stutter, but that was so many things that you just brought up.

**Jordyn Koveleski Gorman** (3:45)
Yeah, so I worked at a rehabilitation hospital, a pediatric rehab hospital in Baltimore, and I got so much experience, so much knowledge, pretty much exclusively working with the under three population, feeding kids with food refusal or a limited diet, helping littles latch on a bottle, move to solids, all kinds of things. So then when I had my son, I had that of course whole of like, do I want to do what I'm passionate about? Do I want to be a mom? How can I do both? Oh my gosh, I don't know what to do.