Renee Hunter Speech Therapist

1. Renee Hunter Speech Therapist The Process of a Speech Language Referral Or “ Or “Everything you ever wanted to know about a speech referral but were afraid to ask!”

2. Who Do I Refer? • Speech Language Pathologists in the public schools provide therapy to qualifying students with difficulties in the following areas:

3. Articulation • Receptive and Expressive Language • Fluency (stuttering) • Voice or resonance • Pragmatics (social use of language)

4. How Do I Begin? I’ll come in during reading and listen to her! • Communicate with the SLP(T) • Communicate with parent(T) • Observation and/or screening(SLP) • Fail screening referral proceeds • Pass screening note home by SLP and process stops It sounds like Jenna has a lisp!

5. What happens next? • Fill out DEC 1 referral form (T) • Participate in meeting with parent and SLP to sign DEC1 and DEC 2(T) • Student is now ready for evaluation (SLP)

6. Testing and beyond… • Student is tested (SLP) • Communication between SLP and teacher to discuss results and establish goals (if qualify) • Share any relevant information based on classroom assessment and observation (T) • Meet with parent, LEA representative and SLP to discuss evaluation results with parents and proceed with paperwork if student qualified (T)

7. Therapy Begins, Now what? • Therapy is scheduled (SLP) and students begins right away • Continue dialogue between SLP and teacher about areas of need, brainstorming, utilization of resources, progress noted • Remember the other 29 hours!!

8. Bibliography • Clip Art • Department of Exceptional Children forms • My own expert knowledge!

9. Thank you for viewing my very first Power Point presentation!!!