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SLP Corner: 2 Important Questions New Speech Therapy Students Should Be Asked

by Erik Raj, CCC-SLP
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As a school-based speech-language pathologist, I’m constantly attempting to evaluate and re-evaluate how I’m doing as a clinician. Are my current therapy strategies helping my students meet their goals in a timely manner? Am I collaborating enough with teachers that also work together with my students? How am I doing with touching base to discuss student progress with parents and caregivers? These are just a few things that I make sure to consistently ponder to gauge if I’m being the best possible clinician that I can be. And ya know what? For the most part, I’m doing pretty alright.
But there’s one thing I want to get better at.
God knows I ain’t perfect, so I’m all about sharing with you something professionally I want to get better at. I want to get better at “setting the speech-language therapy stage”for all the new students that join my caseload. What I mean by that is, when I start to work with a new child, I want to make sure that the student and I are on the same page with WHY the student is coming to me and WHAT that student hopes to gain by coming to me.
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