Is the gap widening between School Speech Language Pathologists and Clinical Speech Language Pathologists?...

Nov 2, 2014 by

Reading articles and comments on my blog I’ve begun asking myself what I think are a couple of key questions. Is the gap widening between the school speech therapist and the clinical/hospital therapist? Why don’t we function the same way? Actually I’ve been thinking of this for a long time ever since an administrator, in passing at a staff meeting said something like, “They have to realize this is a public school”, in reference to a parent who wanted extra services in the ideal setting. At the time I thought privately to myself, why wouldn’t you want us providing the best services possible on parr with clinical or private therapists. So do school Speech Language Pathologists and Clinical Speech Language Pathologists function the same way? I know the answer to that would be no....

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