Roles and Responsibilities of SLP's in Schools Flashcards
Critical roles
Working across all levels from pre-k to high school with no level underserved
Serving range of disorders
Ensuring educational relevance, does disorder have affect on academics? Doesn’t have to be just curriculum- anything affecting any part of school such as eating and peer relationships
Range of Responsibilities and Roles
- Prevention (RTI)
- Assessment
-Identifying children with communication disorders - Intervention
- Program design (RTI)
- Data collection and analysis
- Compliance with federal and state mandates
Collaboration
With other school professionals:
-General ed. teachers
-Special ed teachers
-Reading specialists
-Principles
-TESOL/ESOL Teachers
With universities:
-Resources for university personnel
With the community, families and students
Prevention and RTI
Tier-based intervention program for ALL students, students who do not make progress get additional level of support, and students who still do not make progress referred to intervention and special education services
Prevents failure and provides and alternative method for identifying students with learning disabilities
Strong in theory, may not always be implemented correctly
Push-in vs. Pull-out
Push-in: LRE, natural environment in classrooms
Pull-out: Speech-rooms, not LRE needs justification
Direct service
Therapist directly gives service to students
Can be push in or pull out, can be group or individual
Co-teaching/collaborative
You and another professional work together for all students in the classroom, including students with disabilities
Parallel instruction
SLP works with students in a classroom while teacher leads the rest of the class
Intervention consultation
Teaching/training with general education or special education paraprofessionals
Usually an additional step to co-teaching or parallel instruction
Inclusive vs. self-contained classrooms
Inclusive classroom: Most LRE, natural environment, students with and without IEP
Self-contained classroom: Every student has an IEP, needs justification for everything not LRE
FAPE
Free appropriate public education
Cannot discriminate against individuals with disabilities and cannot reject them from a free and public education
IDEA
Individuals with disabilities education action
Individuals with disabilities became eligible for relevant education if meet the 13 criterias
General curriculum: In classroom, LRE, high school diploma
Adaptive curriculum: Focuses on learning adaptive lifestyle and functioning on their own, high school certificate
FERPA
Family education rights and privacy act
Privacy in regards to grades, IEP, etc.
