{"id":142406,"date":"2026-04-01T11:18:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/?p=142406"},"modified":"2026-04-01T11:18:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:18:51","slug":"gigis-and-midwestern-university-purposeful-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/uncategorized\/gigis-and-midwestern-university-purposeful-partnership","title":{"rendered":"GiGi&#8217;s and Midwestern University-Purposeful Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/files\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-01-111051.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"341\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/files\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-01-111051.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-142407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/files\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-01-111051.png 341w, https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/files\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-01-111051-256x300.png 256w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hoffman\u00a0Estates\u00a0Playhouse has just partnered with Midwestern University.\u00a0 We are pleased to have an SLP graduate student, Rachael, who will be receiving her clinical practicum with us from March-May before she starts her career as a speech-language pathologist.\u00a0 She has a strong interest in AAC, expressive and receptive language, pragmatic language, and play-based therapy, so GiGi\u2019s is a great fit for her\u00a0to\u00a0learn.\u00a0 She has really enjoyed getting to know all the participants and has\u00a0been gaining valuable experience at the playhouse!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/files\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-01-111113-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"491\" height=\"316\" src=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/files\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-01-111113-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-142410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/files\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-01-111113-1.jpg 491w, https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/files\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-01-111113-1-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hoffman\u00a0Estates\u00a0Playhouse has just partnered with Midwestern University.\u00a0 We are pleased to have an SLP graduate student, Rachael, who will be receiving her clinical practicum with us from March-May before she starts her career as a speech-language pathologist.\u00a0 She has a strong interest in AAC, expressive and receptive language, pragmatic language, and play-based therapy, so&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29353,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[58,22,23],"class_list":["post-142406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bestofall","tag-down-syndrome","tag-gigis-playhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hoffmanestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}