![]() “Can I discuss this student’s strengths and needs in a meeting?”Īt the beginning of the school year, I had my SLPAs give the present level assessment tools to all students on their caseload during the first few sessions of therapy. ![]() I met with my colleagues and showed them the tools that would be available, and we jumped in with both feet! We believed this had to make our lives easier as supervisors of SLPAs and it did! Now I want to share my journey with you because it has been such a great experience and I can say I would NEVER supervise an SLPA without using SLP Toolkit again! After using SLP Toolkit myself last school year, I had a brilliant idea! I decided to pilot SLP Toolkit with 8 SLP/SLPA teams. This school year I decided I needed to do something different. As the supervising SLP who is responsible for making treatment decisions based on the data from my SLPA, I often find myself questioning “do I know enough about this student to share their progress”, “can I discuss their strengths and needs in a meeting” and “am I making the best treatment plan for this student that I don’t directly service”? A constant challenge is whether the data collected by the SLPA is useful to determine what I need to do with each client on my caseload when quarterly reports and IEPs come up. As all of us who supervise SLPAs know, this comes with ups and downs. I have been working with and supervising speech-language pathology assistants (SLPAs) for 15 years. Supervising SLPAs with Confidence, by Amy Hill, M.A. Read more about her her perspective on creating an effective SLP/SLPA team in this post, Supervising SLPAs with Confidence. In her current positions, she educates aspiring SLPAs in college as well as coaches and mentors SLP/SLPA teams currently working in the school setting. Have a good day.We are so excited to have Amy Hill as a guest author on our blog! Amy is the former President of the Arizona Speech Language Hearing Association and is currently the Executive Director of Clinical Support for Light Street Special Education Solutions in Arizona and a Program Director/Faculty Member at Estrella Mountain Communication College. It has changed really my professional life and my personal life. I strongly suggest you invest in SLP Toolkit and invest in yourself. And what I really love about SLP Toolkit is that in having all this information right at my fingertips, I have a level of focus on my students' needs and goals and objectives that I've always attempted to have in the past but I never have. I find that the format is easy to use and everyday I discover some new feature of it. It has saved me so much time in terms of billing. It has provided me with tools for progress monitoring. I cannot begin to tell you the amount of time that SLP Toolkit has saved for me. So this year I decided to invest in myself and invest in SLP Toolkit. Throughout the years I've tried really hard to remain organized and find the perfect solution to data collection, progress monitoring, billing, and it just seems like as the years go by there are never enough hours in the day. I've been working in the schools for 26 years. Ellen Silva: Hi my name is Ellen Silva and I'm a speech pathologist in the public schools.
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