How are school SLPs handling their caseload during the Covid 19 crisis?...
We’ve been out of school now for 4 weeks here in the northeast because of Covid 19. While I only have a small private practice that I put on hold, I have been wondering how school speech language pathologists across the country are managing their caseloads, especially those therapists who are put in positions where they have 30-50-80+ students on their caseload. Even when working in schools some very creative scheduling, often with help from an SLPA, has to take place to manage a large caseload. If you’re an SLP with a large caseload you’re often seeing kids in groups of 3-5 (basically each student is getting 6-10 minutes per session to work on their specific skills, less if you’re a big data collector). I think of these as Band-Aid services, doing just enough for the students...
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