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Chelsea Van Tol

Chelsea Van Tol

Speech-language pathologist with First Nations Education Steering Committee (FNESC) in British Columbia, providing services to children in rural and remote First Nations schools, including collaborative Kwak'wala-language work in Alert Bay.

Sep 24, 2026

5:43
Chelsea, and, uh, your, the work setting from your perspective.
5:46
Yeah.
5:47
So I spend two to three days, uh, three to four times a year, just depending on the schedule of the school year, um, and what that entails for them to recruit, 'cause they often have OT, art therapy, you know, other professionals coming in, so it really depends on how much the school wants all of us here at the same time.
6:07
We're trying to kind of fit everybody in.
6:10
Um, and so then I will travel from Vancouver.
6:12
Um, and so I feel like it's kind of cool to know, like I take the ferry, and then you gotta drive from K- You know, so from my house to the ferry is not very far, but then from the, um, ferry from Vancouver to Nanaimo, you know, is an hour and 45 minutes, and then you're driving all the way up to Port McNeill.
6:28
Uh, and then from Port McNeill, it's an ad- additional ferry to get to Alert Bay, and it's very beautiful.

17 MINS LATER

23:27
Chelsea, I'm going to start with you here about, you know, um, uh, you know, our listeners will be familiar with some, um, y- standard speech and language goals and, uh, you know, how you're maybe considering, uh, those within the community or, you know, how that has maybe evolved, uh, along, and what kinds of goals are you addressing, uh, i- in the work that you're doing?

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