A school-based speech therapist is a trained expert who works to identify and treat communication challenges in students. If you’re interested in becoming a speech therapist, you’ll need to have the right education and experience to earn your license. Here, …
Administrators, teachers, and parents often wonder: These are great questions for team discussions about programming for the whole child. For years, Pediatric Therapeutic Services (PTS) has been a thought leader in this area. We continuously create new resources for helping …
Demand for special education and related services is high. But school districts can’t always afford to hire therapist employees. Have you considered serving students as a contracted therapist? At Pediatric Therapeutic Services (PTS), we’ve built one of the greater Delaware Valley’s biggest networks of …
Today’s emphasis on inclusive special education means nearly 40% of students on the autism spectrum spend at least 80% of their time at school in general education classes. Keeping special and general education students together as much as possible benefits all of them …
A teacher sends a frantic email or urgently flags you down in the hallway to say, “So-and-so can’t”—write their letters, stay at their desk, keep their hands to themselves… the list goes on—“and I think they need therapy. How do …
Are you a school-based speech-language pathologist (SLP) concerned about your caseload size? Since 1995, full-time SLPs in schools have had a median monthly caseload size of about 50 students, according to surveys from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). But, research suggests caseloads this …
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 a worksheet, as examples. As a school-based Occupational Therapist (OT) you help …
You’ve finished your graduate coursework in speech-language pathology. Now for the next step: the SLP board exam! What Is the SLP Board Exam? The Speech-Language Pathology Praxis Exam is the official name of the SLP board exam. The American Speech-Language Hearing …
Want to engage your speech therapy students at a whole new level? Slide some science experiments into your session plan! When Speech Language Pathologists (SLPs) use experiments, they can make students feel more motivated, elicit more language from them, and help them hone in on several key language …
Imagine your school without related services. Imagine your students struggling with day-to-day classroom skills but having no one to come help them. That’s what I saw during my recent trip to Guatemala, where I provided free inservice training to teachers …