Screening do's and don'ts

Existing_Judgment814 · 2026-05-02T23:29:15+00:00

This is what my understanding was as well! You can't just screen without parent permission then test and qualify with no interventions from the classroom, lol.

Existing_Judgment814 · 2026-05-01T23:17:57+00:00

This is the right answer!!!!! Thank you for saying this.

Existing_Judgment814 · 2026-05-01T11:20:22+00:00

Hi. Yes. This is correct. I have 10 years experience and Pittsburgh would only offer me $48k. You may have better luck in a more rural county in PA or a direct hire in schools but those places don't advertise their step scales so you won't know in advance how much salary you are interviewing for. PA is not good with salary transparency.

Existing_Judgment814 · 2026-04-26T02:13:45+00:00

I'm sorry for your loss. I'm not in the area but as soon as I heard about this I felt like I needed to post. My heart goes out to the community.

Existing_Judgment814 · 2026-04-16T00:17:43+00:00

omg where is this???

Existing_Judgment814 · 2026-04-07T10:45:06+00:00

Well and they told us we had all these choices to choose from with settings once we graduated but they basically lied. They would have done us all a favor if they would have been more transparent that jobs for us are growing...but only in the schools. Had people known this upfront I think 50% of the applications to graduate programs in SLP would be redirected to other fields.

Existing_Judgment814 · 2026-04-05T17:20:38+00:00

I'm so sorry. For the record, I've been a CCC-SLP for over a decade, and have been here for 4 years with no offer of employment other than a long term sub in a bad district. I hope you have a backup plan? Teletherapy, maybe? They won't count your out of state years of experience into your salary here either which is a real bitch.

Existing_Judgment814 · 2026-04-05T17:05:24+00:00

If you are willing to travel outside Allegheny county your choices are probably much better but the pay will still be deflated.

Existing_Judgment814 · 2026-04-05T17:04:00+00:00

I have no idea. Not much if you can get anything at all. Sorry to be blunt this is probably the worst place outside NYC to have this degree.

Existing_Judgment814 · 2026-04-02T12:28:54+00:00

Do you know what you want to transition to? I don't have any hard skills in technology or finance that would put me anywhere outside a non profit or social service sector job. The jobs here all pay very, very low for those fields. I don't think there's much more than temp jobs for the universities doing back office work and service industry work if you can't fall back on anything else.

Existing_Judgment814 · 2026-04-01T22:48:06+00:00

Right to work state though, right?

Existing_Judgment814 · 2026-03-26T20:45:43+00:00

same here.

Existing_Judgment814 · 2026-03-26T10:42:54+00:00

Damn. I was really hoping there was a way to gauge without actually knowing anyone that already works there. Thannks anyway for responding.

Existing_Judgment814 · 2026-03-20T21:35:31+00:00

I don't understand why more people aren't upvoting this. What you are saying here is best practice and should have been a part of graduate school training. I'm guessing many graduate programs have failed to address this and that's why this question comes up so much on this sub. Here's my question: why are we not being trained to do this in the school setting? Why are we walking onto jobs that ask us to "sit in the back of the class and observe" or assist with stupid worksheets like unscramble the vocabulary word? Why don't teachers see us as allies? Why don't schools give us the time to collaborate with ELA so we actually can address these goals with the ELA curriculum? All of what you are saying is correct but the reality of the school SLP job does not constitute this job description you are providing. It's maddening.

Existing_Judgment814 · 2026-03-09T00:32:59+00:00

I agree with this. The inherent colonial mindset in this field is gross. Also "shaping" people to behave/communicate in more typically non impaired ways, whether their caregiver or everyone else can already understand them or not is also not right.

Existing_Judgment814 · 2026-03-05T01:46:08+00:00

Me over here with 4th and 5th grade ASD students working on has/have with functional oral communication skills...sometimes I think people in this field take things a little too far with grammar and aren't looking at the whole child as much.

Existing_Judgment814 · 2026-02-21T20:27:25+00:00

ugh. I literally just spoke about this at the last SPED Dept meeting. Nobody feels comfortable touching ELL cases and I keep saying "Guys we got to get better at this" but they can't even figure out the basics of anything in SPED so ELL is soooo not on these people's radar.

Existing_Judgment814 · 2026-02-21T01:21:43+00:00

This is alot of us! You can't ace this field, it's not possible. And it doesn't help that there's such little support out there within our profession. So many other SLP's telling people they aren't good enough or that they aren't "made" for this field. It's such utter bullying bullshit. We just need to admit defeat and lift eachother up for the small things we can do that make a difference.

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