Attend ASHA ’ s 2019 Schools Virtual Town Hall on Attracting, Preparing, and Retaining School-Based SLPs

Join a conversation about how to attract, prepare, and retain school-based speech-language pathologists in a free virtual Town Hall meeting on Monday, Dec. 9, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. EST. Attending the Town Hall makes you eligible for 0.15 ASHA continuing education units. In response to concerns from members and administrators around the country about the need to expand the school-based workforce, the ASHA School Team recruited a group of top-level panelists to provide innovative solutions and success stories on how to attract, prepare, and retain school-based SLPs . Judy Montgomery will moderate the panel discussion.  Montgomery, who served as 1995 ASHA president, recently retired as chair of the Communication Sciences and Disorders program of Chapman University in Irvine, California. She has also worked as a school SLP and special education director. Panelists include: Kathy Hoffman, Arizona superintendent of public instruction for the Arizona Department of Education and former school-based SLP. Chuck Carlin of the University of Akron, who developed a workload calculator used in schools throughout Ohio. Jerrold Jackson, an independent contractor, who has supervised speech-language pathology assistants and has been a lead SLP and special education director. He provides school-based services and helps districts attract and retain SLPs in Texas. Joneen Lowman, a former special education teacher and school-based SLP, teaches at the University of Kentucky.  She supports telepract...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Tags: Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Advocacy Source Type: blogs