In my last blog I just skimmed the surface of how paraprofessionals (referred to as ''aides'' in some districts) can help make our jobs a bit easier by helping us out.  Continuing with this series on ways to get help in the school setting, I've found there are many other staff members out there who can help us.  One such group are ...

Last month I wrote about needing help and wondering where to get it. Many readers offered great suggestions on how to get more help to make our jobs more manageable. I've started my pursuit of being able to recognize help when it is right in my face and to be able to accept that help. The control freak in me still has a hard time with this ...

(School Psychologist  x  Guidance Counselor  x  Special Ed Teacher )+ ½ OT = School-Based SLP You might be wondering, ''What's with the math?'' I know, I know. We school-based SLPs do very little math in our jobs except for calculating percent correct from data - most likely using a calculator or app to do so!  The ...

One of my goals as a school SLP is often to spend more time at recess supporting my students. I will be honest, I often start the year with good intentions to head out to recess, but as soon as I start running my schedule, it gets more and more difficult to carve out the time. I am fortunate to collaborate with some wonderful special ...

I'm writing this blog in the evening after the end of the first day of school for the 2012-13 school year. Some of you have already started school, others start this week, and even more will be starting next week after the Labor Day holiday. There are so many things on a school-based SLP's to-do list at the start of the school year that ...

As I write this, I have 2 more weeks before school starts, however I know that in many parts of the country you are already back to school! Do you have some new school year resolutions for the year? I always do, and here they are! 1) Remember that bulletin board I described last year? This year I will have it up and running! 2) Creative ...

Across the country public education (and people who work in public education) has been on the news and in the papers, often in a negative way. One of the things that I often hear and read is, ''Teachers (or school-based SLPs) get paid for three months off in the summer.''  For me personally, I've had anywhere from a little under two months to ...

One hundred percent of children and adults with ASD are bullied at sometime. One hundred percent of the time, it hurts. I hope they are not bullied on a daily basis. I hope the hurt does not leave scars-physically or emotionally. Perhaps, being bullied should be right up there on the new DSM criteria for Autistic Disorder as an indentifying ...

As I had mentioned way back at the beginning of the school year, I had moved to a new office at my elementary school—one that had been occupied by an SLP who had been working in the building for many, many years. School is over, yet I still haven't finished going through, sorting and cleaning out the therapy materials I had inherited from her ...

Last time, I blogged about being a member of a state speech-language-hearing association. In that blog I mentioned my state association's upcoming annual convention. Today's post is about some of my experiences at the PSHA Convention. I'll write about the other presentations I attended in my next post. My time at the convention was split among ...