Speech Therapy and Whatever Happened to Nancy Vincent?

I did finally take the time to look up speech therapy exercises and found this website with speech therapy worksheets for exercises.
http://www.bungalowsoftware.com/speech_therapy_worksheets.htm#pictureid
After I looked at them, it became clearer what Lynn Johnston is trying to do with this sequence for Grandpa Jim. She is taking different speech therapy exercises and trying to make a joke using each one. In this fashion, the strip will be cut out and put on the bulletin boards of speech therapists across the world.

The problems with her narrative form are these:

1. Lynn has arranged so her strip operates in real-time, which means that it has been 8 months since Jim’s stroke in late September, 2006. However, Lynn is ignoring that, and presenting Jim’s speech therapy almost as if this was one of his first sessions. As I look through the website’s list of exercises, there are some fairly complicated exercises, Jim should be able to do for comprehension, particularly considering we have been shown Jim has not lost anything in actual comprehension, just in auditory expression.
2. The speech therapy sequence of exercises are zipped out one after the other due to the limited number of panels available, as if Lynn has a quota for how many exercises she need to include for the strip sequence.
3. Lynn didn’t pull this same stunt with the physiotherapy. It actually seemed appropriate considering Jim has been shown to progress from no movement, to minimal movement, to being able to handle a walker, to working on using a cane.

Kate Johnston joined the staff at For Better or For Worse, and so it made me wonder what had happened. Here is what I have noticed, and of course, the mistress of continuity aprilp_katje can tell me what I have missed.

1. Nancy Vincent, who used to be in charge of both the For Better or For Worse office and its promotion side business Entercom Canada, Inc is gone.
2. In Nancy’s place over at Entercom Canada, Inc, is Robert Kuenzlen, C.I.M.
3. Nancy’s position is gone completely on the For Better or For Worse side, but Kate Johnston has been added.
4. I notice that Entercom Canada, Inc., which used to say it was a business which could promote other business than For Better or For Worse, is now strictly a business promoting For Better or For Worse. I don’t see the stuff about promoting Rod Johnston’s train business anymore on the website for Entercom Canada, Inc. I wonder if this was the issue which was causing problems for Nancy Vincent.
5. One of my pet theories for the hybrid was that if Lynn Johnston retired completely, her staff would have to find new jobs. I wonder if the shift in Entercom’s direction is due to the announcement of the hybrid. Now, no longer do the Lynnions have to pretend to do things other than with For Better or For Worse, since their future is assured.

Here’s to you, Nancy Vincent, wherever you are!!