Why Your Students Need Sensory Rooms in Schools
Administrators, teachers, and parents often wonder: What exactly is a “sensory break?” How does one identify why and when students need one? How can special education programs provide sensory rooms…
How Occupational Therapy Tier 1 Interventions Benefit Students and Therapists
In any given school day, students must manage a multitude of specific tasks: unlocking and locking lockers, sitting and paying attention to instructions, holding a pencil correctly to write on…
Teletherapy Tips for School-Based SLPs
Providing speech therapy and other language services when you can’t be physically face to face with students presents some challenges. But once you identify and use the array of resources…
Pointers for Your Winning Entry-Level Therapy Resume
Writing a resume or CV may seem about as fun and exciting as getting up early on a Saturday to prepare your taxes. While blindfolded. On a treadmill. But writing…
Top Five Tips for Passing Your SLP Board Exam
You’ve finished your graduate coursework in speech-language pathology. Now for the next step: the SLP board exam! The American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA) requires the Praxis examination in Speech-Language Pathology…
What Is Trauma-Informed Care?
Discover This Holistic Approach to Helping Students Heal and Succeed Faced with students’ challenging, disruptive, or aggressive behaviors, teachers, building staff, and administrators are often tempted to ask, “What’s wrong…
Here’s Help Translating School-Based Therapy “Alphabet Soup”
Imagine: It’s your first day in your brand-new school-based therapy job. The school psychologist pokes her head into your office. “Hi!” she says. “The MDT is meeting to discuss Amy…
How Multi-Tiered Systems of Support Transform Your Program and Budget
As a special education administrator, you walk a fine line between the perils of saying “yes” to everyone requesting related services for a student, and the potential consequences of saying…
Meet the Challenge of Your Entry-Level School-Based Therapy Job
Remember how busy, confusing, and overwhelming your first day of class could feel when you were a kid? When you’re brand-new in an entry-level school-based therapy job, you’re likely to…
Why Support for Therapists Must Be Acceptable and Accessible
We school-based therapists are helpers: We help students achieve their IEP goals by providing the related services they need to function and flourish. We help teachers and paraprofessionals accommodate students’…