School Based Speech Language Pathologist

This resource is the ultimate SLP checklist for setting up a successful school year. In addition to step-by-step task instructions from before school starts through the first weeks of student intervention, it includes the following: - Link to scheduling template in Google Sheets - Link to caseload review templates in Google Sheets - Link to "All About Me" student worksheets for first speech session -Example email to inform teachers of speech pull-out times - Printable student speech passes - 1st

This product is a checklist for SLP case managers outlining the steps to take before, during , and after an IEP meeting for speech-only students. Case management can feel daunting, but knowing the IEP process and being organized takes the stress out of the process!

This resource is a beginner's guide to using ChatGPT for speech-language pathologists (SLPs). The guide explains how to access the unlimited free version of ChatGPT, its limitations, and 7 ways SLPs can use ChatGPT (with specific prompts), as well as some general tips and tricks. Using AI can help improve your efficiency and decrease your workload. Work smarter not harder this school year!

Not sure where to start when serving students with a diagnosis of selective mutism? When printed back-to-back, this resource is a one-pager about selective mutism, including information on the SLPs role in assessment, goal writing and progress monitoring, plus links to additional resources. It is intended for school-based speech language pathologists, case managers, and educational teams.

Not sure where to start with students who produce atypical disfluencies? When printed back-to-back this resource is a quick start guide and one-pager. It provides a definition, explains differential diagnosis from stuttering, details potential underlying causes, suggests goal areas, and provides resource links for further reading. There is an additional quick-reference diagram page to illustrate the differences between atypical disfluencies and "typical" stuttering.

This resource is a one-page visual illustrating the progression of phonemic awareness skills which can be used as a teaching hierarchy. It also includes a link to the free Heggerty phonemic awareness assessment tools that I routinely use. (You do need to enter your email in Heggerty's site to access these no-cost tools.) My speech sound students with both single-sound and multi-sound articulation errors reach their goals faster when I incorporate phonemic awareness skill instruction into session

Use this 7-question google form to help students identify their speech-language strengths and challenges. It is perfect for gathering students' perspective for evaluations and goal-setting. Multiple choice format with symbol supported answer choices.

Increase student buy-in by partnering to write communication goals! This resource is designed to generate conversation around communication goals and gather student self-perspective. Goal ideas are divided into hand out pages for expressive language, receptive language, social/pragmatic language, speech articulation, and stuttering/fluency.

This card set is a structured “What’s Up? / What’s Down?” conversational activity. One person goes first and plays an “Up” or a “Down” by putting the card out and giving their example. Then every other participant takes a turn by playing a “Comment,” “Question,” or “Pass” card, based on the first player's “Up” or “Down." Perfect for targeting turn-taking, question/comment, and structured conversation articulation goals.

This graphic is intended to generate conversations within treatment and educational teams about a logical progression of language skills and as a  starting place for SLPs to plan assessment and choose language intervention targets.

List of FREE resources (and a few low cost essentials) for school-based SLPs. I've been building and revising a list of go-to resources for my K-12 caseload for the past 5 years. Recently revised and with links added for convenience. Categories include: essential materials, SLP content creators to follow, immediately applicable research, open-ended visual stimuli, resources for materials creation, premade no prep/low prep activities, and sources for digital text/literacy-based intervention.

In the school setting, we are confined to the following eligibility categories: Articulation, Voice, Fluency, and Language. These categories are overly simplistic, especially when it comes to speech sound disorders. In order to implement effective intervention, SLPs must recognize that the etiology of sounds errors is anything but simple. The image above illustrates a process for reasoning through a student’s speech sound errors. When a middle or high school student shows up on your caseload for

Document outlining foundational skills for remediation of /r/ for planning assessment and intervention.

This resource is a google doc formatted for planning literacy-based intervention for any given text. It has fields for planning a shared reading (CROWD, CAR) lesson, guided reading instruction, Bloom's Taxonomy hierarchy of comprehension questions, and the more traditional LBI framework developed by Teresa Ukranitz (pre-story knowledge, reading, story comprehension, focused skill activities, parallel story).

Free daily planner page for school-based SLPs!

Table for types of "when" questions, arranged by developmental acquisition and common core standards. Useful information for writing goals and objectives or for planning a teaching hierarchy.

For playing 4-In-A-Row games (Connect 4) in speech articulation sessions: Write one word target on each circle and have students place a token on each circle. Each student gets a page with circles the size of the Connect 4 tokens. When a student picks up a token to play, they need to say the word 5x or make up a sentence using the word. This template contains a page of vocalic “AR”words in all positions and a blank page to customize for each student’s target sound(s).

This resource is an outline-style overview of speech sound disorder therapy. Graduate programs often don't provide a "big picture" for articulation intervention, but this document aims to provide a crash course, with resources, for school-based SLPs treating speech sound disorders!