{"id":262670,"date":"2026-08-10T15:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T15:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/262670\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T15:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T15:40:13","slug":"slp-students-follow-recipe-for-connection-at-pittston-coffee-shop-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/262670\/","title":{"rendered":"SLP Students Follow \u2018Recipe for Connection\u2019 at Pittston Coffee Shop (PHOTOS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A four-week class in the summer provided University of Scranton students with hands-on learning and connection \u2014 with a side of culinary practice.<\/p>\n<p>Students in the University\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gradadmissions.scranton.edu\/programs\/masters-speech-language-pathology\/index.shtml\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Distance Education Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology program<\/a>\u00a0participated\u00a0in \u201cRecipe for Connection,\u201d a cooking program that paired graduate students with adults with intellectual and developmental\u00a0disabilities. Together, they prepared recipes while practicing communication, social\u00a0interaction\u00a0and problem-solving skills in the natural and supportive environment at Coffee Inclusive in Pittston.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRather than focusing solely on therapy activities, \u2018Recipe for Connection\u2019 creates genuine opportunities for conversation,\u00a0collaboration\u00a0and meaningful human connection,\u201d said Tara Carito, the program\u2019s clinical education coordinator. \u201cIt is an experience that benefits both our students and the participants they serve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Students in the two-year graduate program\u00a0participated\u00a0this summer in their in-person clinical experiences through partnerships with Coffee Inclusive, as well as the Scranton School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children and the Waverly Community House.\u00a0These placements allowed students to apply their\u00a0developing\u00a0knowledge to real-world settings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A four-week class in the summer provided University of Scranton students with hands-on learning and connection \u2014 with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[9598,48115,111059,178,180,179,111058,107182,274],"class_list":["post-262670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-coffee","tag-masters","tag-pa-inclusive","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-slp","tag-speech-language-pathology","tag-the-university-of-scranton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}