What is a caseload approach?
Caseload refers to the number of students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs), Individualized Family Service Plans (IFSPs), and 504 plans served by school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs) and other professionals through direct and/or indirect service delivery options.
What is caseload vs workload?
In general, the term caseload typically refers to the number of students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) or Individualized Family Service Plans (IFSPs) school SLPs serve through direct and/or indirect service delivery options. Workload refers to all activities required and performed by school-based SLPs.
What is collaborative service delivery?
In collaborative service delivery, the team devises assessment and treatment goals and procedures. Responsibility for specific goals is assigned by the team to individual team members. The team member with primary responsibility for a goal devises assessment and treatment procedures, usually with input from the team.
What is school-based speech and language therapy?
SLTs work directly with children, their families, and other education professionals to develop personalised strategies to support a child’s individual needs. They also provide training to education professionals so they can identify the signs of speech, language and communication needs and support them appropriately.
What is caseload occupational therapy?
Caseload refers only to the number of children seen by occupational therapy as part of the individual education program (IEP) or individual- ized family service plan (IFSP).
What is collaborative service?
A collaborative service is a service that supports cooperative work among people by providing shared access to common resources.
What do SLP do in schools?
School speech pathologists work with students directly in schools to address any speech and language needs the students may have. They serve children across age groups with a wide range of disorders- from stuttering to language development to autism to ADHD to dysphagia.
What activities does a speech and language therapist do?
Speech and language therapists provide life-changing treatment, support and care for children and adults who have difficulties with communication, eating, drinking and swallowing. You’ll help people who, for physical or psychological reasons, have problems speaking and communicating.