speech-language pathology services in the schools were more like these programs: - ESOL (English Seakers of another Language) where entrance is based on the home language survey and parents have to come in only to sign if they don't want their child to receive services. It is state and federally regulated by OCR. -Reading Recovery where ...

Enough is enough. As SLPs we have diluted and revised our professional goals to work under IDEA in the schools. We have labored under IEPs, Medicaid, and district and state mandates.Our intentions were good, but now it is time to change. I suggest we continue our services under a WHOLE NEW MODEL based on theraputic intervention We need to ...