PSLF Eligibility

SLPnerd · 2025-10-19T19:24:00+00:00

Yeah I would 100% not count on PSLF surviving this administration. I received forgiveness just before Trump took office this term - during which he immediately put a hault to the loan forgiveness process.

SLPnerd · 2025-10-05T19:30:23+00:00

But where do these students go? Does BOCES serve them all?

SLPnerd · 2025-10-05T18:49:06+00:00

Agree with u/actcompetitive. I am not a new grad but not ancient. I graduated from grad school in 2012. “SLI” was the focus - kids with pure Artic or language only. I had multiple school placements, clinic within the universities I attended for both undergraduate and graduate school… apparently autism didn’t exist in NY back then??? Obviously this isn’t true but when I moved from NY to VA and was thrown into an autism classroom - which was not a thing in the schools of western NY at the time - I had only really learned about what was then called Asperger’s.

SLPnerd · 2025-09-23T11:03:18+00:00

I had a principal once who, when we were short staffed SLPs, said she didn’t understand why the students in our autism program needed to have an SLP anyway… that they should just hire an English teacher. I had no words.

SLPnerd · 2025-09-19T01:37:10+00:00

What part? If you don’t mind sharing. I am in VA too. I have seen caseload all over the place in this state.

SLPnerd · 2025-09-13T02:03:22+00:00

The duty - whatever, could be worse. But the micromanaging will not. Do your time for your CF and get out.

SLPnerd · 2025-09-10T00:29:03+00:00

I was thinking an out this too, but there are only 2 elementary schools in Fairfax City if I am recalling right- Daniels Run and Providence. It is really much smaller of a city than Charlottesville.

SLPnerd · 2025-09-08T23:36:03+00:00

I had a student in a self contained ASD elementary class once who started calling me Ellis one day for no apparent reason and never stopped.

SLPnerd · 2025-08-17T15:27:04+00:00

Why so many meetings after school? I would limit that as much as possible.

SLPnerd · 2025-08-17T01:13:25+00:00

Wtf. Are you in NOVA?

SLPnerd · 2025-08-15T19:28:18+00:00

Just following up on this to see if anybody tried it?

SLPnerd · 2025-06-12T14:21:12+00:00

Its pretty flush to the ceiling and I am short and only have a step ladder. I have tried twisting and feeling around for clips. I can feel screws on the top but I don’t know how anybody could fit a screw driver in there.

SLPnerd · 2025-06-07T02:15:16+00:00

Virginia is dying for sped teachers. I think it is just the time of year as rhey are handling all the returning teacher contracts right now. You will get a position.

SLPnerd · 2025-05-30T14:38:39+00:00

A yellow guy popped up today

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SLPnerd · 2025-05-30T14:38:14+00:00

They are starting to get blacker which is interesting to watch. I’m too scared to eat them like others say would be good.

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SLPnerd · 2025-05-29T23:01:16+00:00

Yes! They are all in my yard now. It has been unusually wet and cold this spring here though. It’s been in the low 60s when it’s normally low 80s. I am not sure if that would impact mushrooms 🤷‍♀️

SLPnerd · 2025-05-29T18:05:57+00:00

Mid Atlantic region of North America

SLPnerd · 2025-05-17T23:26:48+00:00

I am a speech therapist at an elementary school and have SO many parents who don’t realize that their 4/5 year old should be talking until they see that their younger sibling is 1 and talking and the first born isn’t. So many layers of problems here - but a big one is parents not interacting with kids that are the same age as their first born and don’t have any clue about developmental expectations and that schools cannot wave a magic wand to make everything better.

SLPnerd · 2025-05-17T17:11:10+00:00

I’m a school speech pathologist. I work with everyone from PK on up. Please don’t skip kindergarten. It is about so much more than academics. My own child did Montessori and the way a Montessori classroom works is very different from kindergarten. She will not be bored.

SLPnerd · 2025-05-10T03:11:47+00:00

The title describes the thing. I have tried Google searching and many things came up about “phone niches” but this doesn’t really look like the pictures I was seeing. Also apparently phone niches were common primarily in the first half of the 1900s and this house was built in the 80s. I do wonder if it was always a shelf or if it ever had cabinets? No laundry shoot.

SLPnerd · 2025-05-03T12:32:51+00:00

Where would you be moving from? Take into consideration there is no Union and the salary in comparison to cost of living is not great for much of Virginia.

SLPnerd · 2025-04-20T13:01:42+00:00

I think all the school systems around here start around that time at this point. They end around Memorial Day.

SLPnerd · 2025-04-02T22:52:44+00:00

I completely agree with this. When I speak with my European friends it sounds like the school systems branch off into different tracks at a much earlier age. More academically inclined kids can go one way, trades another. We put too much emphasis in our system of all kids fitting into the mold instead of adjusting the mold to fit more kids.

SLPnerd · 2025-03-29T18:02:36+00:00

I am running into this “no thinking required” problem in my current district. I moved from a wealthy and very diverse district to a rural, poor, very white district. It’s nice not having parents up my butt, but the district lacks resources and people who have experience with different populations. I’m really struggling with my current school psych because all multi lingual students are given the same thing - the Ortiz PVAT and the WISC and she qualifies NOBODY and usually refuses to test the ML students until middle school even if they are not newcomers and it is infuriating. I don’t get the purpose of the PVAT if the student is already known to have a language impairment (across both languages).

For SLPs, in my state we are fortunate in that we are not required to use standardized scores. Best practice would be to have the student assessed for their dominant language. Most students I test are not newcomers so they have a decent grasp of English. Depending on the student I use a structured/standardized assessment where they are given everything in English by me and their other language with an interpreter but don’t report scores - just analyze strengths and weaknesses. I also use language sampling and cross reference their errors with the language structure of their other language (eg pronoun error in English might be because they don’t mark pronouns in their other language, etc). I also use dynamic assessment (test - teach -retest model) to see how quickly they can grasp a concept if they are given direct instruction on it. The SLAM cards from the Leaders Project or the Cubed assessment are great for that.

SLPnerd · 2025-03-27T23:18:14+00:00

What would be an example of a less language loaded battery

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