When I visit a classroom to screen students for speech concerns or when I stop to pick up a student to administer a formal evaluation or when I come and get my students for their regular speech therapy, the teacher will introduce me, “Mrs. Wu is here, Kate. She’s going to play some games with […]
Look It Up: Checking the Credentials of a Speech Pathologist
To become a speech pathologist, I had to get a master’s degree while earning more than 400 hours of clinical experience across several categories of patient category (age, voice, articulation, language, etc). At the end of my degree program, I had to pass a national speech exam called the PRAXIS. The first year as a […]
Question: Two speech paths, one case?
Q: Is the SLP on the IEP team legally allowed to use another SLP’s evaluation report to determine strengths/weaknesses and need for services? Or, does the SLP on the IEP team have to be the one to evaluate the child? A. Great question. It can be confusing when there’s a speech report on the table […]