Course Number:

Credit Hours:

3

Course Title:

SLP in the Schools

Course Description:

Prepares students for a potential career as a speech-language pathologist (SLP) in the public schools. The regular education classroom has been recognized as the least restrictive environment (LRE) for most children. Many schools now provide a variety of special education services within the classroom using specialized learning techniques infused with curricular content. This has challenged the manner in which SLPs plan and deliver services to children with communication impairments. Many experienced SLPs have long acknowledged frustrations inherent in traditional speech-language intervention, exemplified by goals and services only marginally related to classroom demands and fragmented objects in the individualized education plan. Helps students to avoid becoming a “broom-closet therapist” (Simon, 1987) and develop into a classroom-based communication specialist; a role supported by recent laws and legislation.