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Balancing & Scheduling Speech-Language Workloads in Schools

Presented by Kathleen Whitmire

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Educationally relevant assessments and interventions require that school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs) provide both direct and indirect services with and on behalf of students, including various models of collaboration with classroom teachers and other colleagues. However, SLPs’ schedules continue to be filled with direct pull-out therapy with small groups, blocking them from engaging in a fuller range of services and activities. This course presents strategies for thinking in terms of your workload rather than caseload, allowing you to schedule a wider array of activities within the school day.

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Kathleen Whitmire

Dr. Whitmire is Senior Advisor for AmplioSpeech. Previously, she served as Director of Educational Programs and the RTI Action Network for the National Center for Learning Disabilities and as Director of School Services in Speech-Language Pathology for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). Prior to that,…

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Chapters & learning objectives

Introduction to Workload

1. Introduction to Workload

This introduction acknowledges the disconnect between what a school-based SLP actually does with and on behalf of students and what is on the schedule, and introduces a process for incorporating those activities into the schedule. We'll present a 3-step process for identifying, planning, and scheduling a full range of activities and services and reflect upon these conducted on behalf of students.

Workload Activity Clusters

2. Workload Activity Clusters

In this chapter, Dr. Whitmire presents a detailed model for Step 1 - identifying the full range of direct services, indirect services, and administrative responsibilities that school-based SLPs engage in, and provides opportunities for participants to examine their work in light of this model.

Planning Services

3. Planning Services

In this chapter we'll discuss Step 2 – planning services for students based on the full range of services in the Workload Activity Clusters – and provide examples and a worksheet to expedite that planning.

Scheduling Workload

4. Scheduling Workload

Schedules based on workload rather than caseload provide SLPs with the opportunity to engage in both direct and indirect services. This chapter presents several examples of such schedules, and summarizes tips for workload scheduling.