School Based Speech Language Pathologist

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 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