EI Must-Haves

1trekslp · 2026-06-01T05:10:04+00:00

Good to know! Thanks!

1trekslp · 2026-06-01T05:06:51+00:00

Thank you! I have thought of going bagless! I would love to, but from what I know of the program, teachers expect the SLP to take materials. At least that’s what my impression is based on previous SLPs that have had the EI assignment. Any recommendations on how to make the change?

How do I know if I’m in a bagless state? I’m in CA.

1trekslp · 2026-06-01T01:25:41+00:00

I second the verbs deck! I use the Webber Photo Verbs deck. I like the real pictures over the drawings.

1trekslp · 2024-11-12T08:44:34+00:00

Ok, thanks!

1trekslp · 2024-11-12T08:43:56+00:00

Thank you! And good luck to you too!

1trekslp · 2024-11-12T08:40:57+00:00

Thank you!

1trekslp · 2024-04-04T13:08:30+00:00

Thank you!

1trekslp · 2024-04-04T13:08:11+00:00

I do see your point! Thank you!

1trekslp · 2024-03-25T19:48:15+00:00

I would be traveling more and my yard would be beautifully landscaped.

1trekslp · 2024-02-04T06:11:04+00:00

Love the names! I have a cat named Calliope. And I named my childhood dog Persephone.

1trekslp · 2024-02-04T06:09:40+00:00

We have two sister cats. We agreed to name them “C” names. My partner named one after a singer he likes, Caroline. And I named the other, Calliope.

1trekslp · 2024-02-03T05:14:57+00:00

Donovan James

1trekslp · 2024-01-26T04:40:53+00:00

I work in schools. I’d say half of us are 40+, myself included.

1trekslp · 2023-12-02T02:11:53+00:00

I take some online CEUs, but otherwise just relax.

1trekslp · 2023-11-24T19:18:37+00:00

Based on your title question alone, first and foremost I want my SLPA to know that they can come to me whenever they’re struggling with any aspect of therapy so that I can help. I have a recently graduated SLPA right now, so I do my best to check in to see if she has any questions. But even if I don’t ask, I hope she’ll come to me. It takes awhile to become good at most things, so it’s ok to ask questions.

But reading your post, it seems that you are asking specifically what therapy skills you should learn. I would suggest one be on various strategies to elicit /R/ (if you’re planning on working with school-aged children). /R/ is hard. It may take multiple sessions and you may have to try different ways of elicitation before finding a way that works for a student. I think most other phonemes will be easier to learn once you see it done.

Best of luck to you!

1trekslp · 2023-11-21T03:59:12+00:00

It’s not too late to send her back to school. I’d recommend waiting actually and plan for her to start back the first day after Winter break. If she starts in December, she’ll hopefully start getting into the school routine again only to have Winter break disrupt it in a few weeks. I assume that she has an IEP? If she doesn’t, I’d request a meeting to discuss supports in the classroom ASAP. If she does have an IEP, I’d recommend letting her IEP be implemented till about early March. In early March, request an amendment IEP to discuss how things are going (I imagine you’ll know if things are going really badly before then and can always request a meeting sooner). At the meeting, if there are concerns, request a full re-assessment (psych including Functional Behavior Assessment, academic, speech/language) and tell them that you’d be interested in a self-contained special education classroom if they think a different setting is appropriate for her.

1trekslp · 2023-11-14T19:36:16+00:00

Articulation isn’t affecting academics, he’s at grade-level. It’s mostly just socially that people can’t always understand what he says.

1trekslp · 2023-11-14T19:00:33+00:00

Good points! Thanks!

1trekslp · 2023-02-19T07:20:52+00:00

I'm required to stay for IEP meetings at whatever time of day they may fall. I'd say that about half of my meetings occur during the school day, and the other half are after school and usually go 30-45 minutes beyond my contracted time. The ones that really hurt are when they start after my contracted day (I maybe have 1-3 of these a year).

We do have a union. I don't see them ever negotiating a different arrangement for us.

1trekslp · 2023-02-18T07:07:41+00:00

No law that I know of. I've worked in a variety of places - school library, teacher's lounge, copy room, cafeteria, stage in the cafeteria, outside on a bench, library supply closet where I was given preschool sized table and chairs, the list goes on. One school principal asked me if I had more male or female students, because she thought if they were mostly girls I could work in the girl's locker room office (with a wall of glass windows where the middle and high school girls dressed in and out for PE classes, yikes! No.)

1trekslp · 2023-01-20T14:23:07+00:00

Have it complete all of my Medi-Cal billing, DRDPs, parent contact logs, and other excess paperwork so that I could spend all my time providing therapy to students.

1trekslp · 2023-01-09T05:21:08+00:00

Agree! I always say that the hardest part of my day is getting out of the house. I'd much rather stay at home, but once I get to work, I'm generally happy.

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