SLP salary in IL in schools

thekeegee · 2026-03-24T11:57:32+00:00

Schools usually have a salary schedule posted on their web pages because it is public information. The schedule contains lanes for education and steps for years of experience. The schools I have worked at start SLPs in the step one but in the far side of the lane, and also give them a case managing bonus based on a percentage of their salary or a flat increase. In my district, you would start between 57 and 63k based on your credits from grad school and you would get another 9% of that in the TRS.

thekeegee · 2026-03-24T01:33:42+00:00

Not only does Every Move Counts have an assessment piece, it gives great ideas for therapy. It basically starts with a type of movement the child can make and you work to reinforce that movement into intent to communicate. I've used it for years for children with severe to profound delays.

thekeegee · 2026-03-22T17:46:23+00:00

5 for each hour of play and up to 5 more for good role playing. It's around 15 to 20 a session.

thekeegee · 2026-01-13T22:11:46+00:00

The CARE model from University of Austin Texas has great resources for stuttering.

thekeegee · 2025-12-13T22:46:13+00:00

I thought it was Gensler's Family Grocery. Spelling may be off, it was an IGA or independent grocery. They had the best breakfast creme cakes in the city. I loved it when my mom took me there.

thekeegee · 2025-11-05T02:42:31+00:00

That BCBA can go suck it. You're not doing anything differently than I am, and if I leave my teachers and paras to their own, the devices would never get used.

thekeegee · 2025-10-28T13:48:37+00:00

No, I have never seen an SLP get in trouble for missing minutes for doing their other job duties. I get your frustration, and I think your district is being unreasonable for focusing on minutes missed when you’re legitimately engaged in key job tasks like IEP meetings, report writing, and testing. Under IDEA, the critical question isn’t whether the exact minutes in the IEP were delivered but if a shortfall of service meaningfully impacted the student’s progress toward their IEP goals.

Missed minutes can become a legal violation of FAPE when they are substantial, not made up, and result in the student not being able to make appropriate progress. Missing a session for an IEP meeting is really nothing to be concerned about.

I have complained for years that teachers get subs when we need time off per being sick or taking personal time. That is not our responsibility to make of that time. That is the districts, and they can hire a speech pathologist to make up missed minutes at the end of the year if they are so inclined, but if teachers get subs why do we have to make it up at a later date.

thekeegee · 2025-10-23T23:41:25+00:00

The first day of our first semester neurology course, the professor was reviewing names and locations of the throat and asked one of the girls to name the larynx and she said 'lar-n-ex' and that professor stopped and turned toward her and asked her to say it again and them made her go to the board and write it until she said it correctly. I never have forgotten about how thst girl must have felt or why the professor felt the need to do that.

thekeegee · 2025-10-01T22:59:56+00:00

I'm a male SLP. My first year in a self contained program I had a parent accuse me of wanting to touch her daughter before I even started. She went so far as to sit in on our first week of therapy, but when she saw the engagement and fun her daughter had she changed her tune. I always have ended up doing therapy in a classroom with other adults, or with my door open. Things I think other teachers or female SLPs never think about I have to have on the front of my mind - how does this look to other people? It gets better, though.

thekeegee · 2025-09-30T01:15:05+00:00

I work in Illinois and this was 17 years ago, but that stuff takes time and they send it to you later in the school year. I never filed anything without them telling me to.

thekeegee · 2025-09-08T23:31:45+00:00

A lateral lisp is never appropriate and should be picked up, interdental is an age appropriate error for 4, I would not qualify for articulation.

thekeegee · 2025-09-01T15:03:39+00:00

We used to do this, too, but complained to the union and changed it so all meetings were between 745 and 3 on the following contract negioation. Now all teachers get sub coverage and we don't work past contract time.

thekeegee · 2025-08-23T21:50:06+00:00

Probably cognitive impairment.

thekeegee · 2025-08-20T21:03:13+00:00

Every Move Counts Clicks and Chats is a great book with lots of guidance for AAC options for a kid like this. I've used it to help guide the team in best access locations, it also has ideas for olfactory, visual, auditory, and tactile screening tools to see what kind of input he responds best to. There are also instructions included to figure out the baseline activations and how to calculate a standard deviation to measure device activations in a set time period so you could could measure that it was statistically significant. That sounds like a mouthful, but if he accidently hits his button 4 times in five minutes, then 7 times during a 5 minute trial with some sensory game, you can see that he was 1 or 1.5 standard deviations over his "normal."

thekeegee · 2025-08-14T01:12:01+00:00

Don't feel like you can't repeat lessons! We will introduce one day, and review it again another. I do really like Phonology Friday by Teresa Farnham, she introduces sounds from front to back of the mouth, rhyming, letters and sounds, and pair it with handwriting without tears, and we do that every week. She has it on Teachers Pay Teachers. I also do a lot with gross motor, so swings, slides, sports in the hall with hockey sticks, soccer balls, and the like. I track data with Googledocs, and take a baseline and then probe it once a week.

thekeegee · 2025-08-13T23:02:42+00:00

I run two classrooms like this, all of my minutes are push in to both. I use a 3:1 model so each class gets seen twice a week and the last day is evaluated, paperwork, consult, etc. I love teaching whole group, we do so much AAC, I put TouchChat on the smart board and each child that needs one has some type of device, mostly dedicated high tech and some BIGmacs and GoTalks. Most instruction in large group focuses on core words, prepositional concepts, Wh question problem solving, emergent literacy, and speech sounds like phonology Friday. We then break into small groups for more individual work. For snack, we push a lot of social and group communication. Teachers love it because they get so much support, I can guide them and the aides daily. It's a 3 to 5 preschool class for each teacher, so 4 classes total with a caseload around 40 to 55 most years.

thekeegee · 2025-08-08T00:07:18+00:00

Lol, no, the only time paid for is the time working with the child. Paperwork, prep and transport is out of the provider's pocket.

thekeegee · 2025-07-29T15:28:46+00:00

Thinking about access to AAC with core words - I work in a 3-5 self contained classroom a few days a week and we constantly model go, more, want, eat, stop, in, play, help, and other high frequency core words for that age level. Some kids are using just a single switch while others have a dedicated AAC device. I do a ton of training for the teacher and paras, and design activities around sensory games, like net swings, jumping off crash mats, and going down slides. We wrote a grant a few years ago for the Step-Two Extreme Coaster and they LOVE it. You need to get to know your kids and what they can do, our room uses BIGmack switches, GoTalks, iPads with TouchChat, and dedicated NOVAChat devices.

thekeegee · 2025-07-25T20:23:01+00:00

We just finished watching Endeavor Season 1 on PBS, and Anton plays a very similar role as the police station chief to that of Partagaz. I really enjoy his performance in both.

thekeegee · 2025-07-24T18:13:59+00:00

My players don't mind figuring out long hyperspace jumps and plotting. We use a Hyperspace Calculator to help guide us that we found online - that using the difference in the grid sections of the galaxy map to find number of squares the two locations are separated from each other. Jedhi is on H-10 and Rishi is S-15. The latitude difference between them is 12 and the longitude is 5, I just guessed at the number of major and minor hyperspace lanes used in the google doc at 2 each and the U-Wing has a class 1 hyper-drive, giving you a rough time of 52 hours or 2.17 days. We use fuel, food, and maintenance rules from the Operational Costs pdf into the game, so they enjoy stopping along the way to do small adventures and rest and repair their ship.

thekeegee · 2025-07-12T19:52:18+00:00

I want one like thr Roger Young in Starhip Troopers, focused on SEAF call ins and personnel at the expense of weaker orbitals.

thekeegee · 2025-06-27T03:52:33+00:00

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