School District Success Stories
Learn about the challenges and outcomes from fellow ASHA members who share their advocacy efforts in the schools. Some topics have text and/or video clips.
Caseload/Workload
- Advocating With a School Union (Pattie Bellini)
- Obtaining Funding for More Work Hours (Dyann Cooper)
Salary
- Salary Increase for Additional Work (Frank Cirrin)
- Achieving Salary Supplement for ASHA Certification (Marie Ireland)
- Equating ASHA CCC With NBPTS Certification for Salary Supplement (Joye MacLeod)
- Obtaining Salary Supplement Through Recognition of ASHA Certification (Fe Murray)
- Connecting CCC to NBPTS for Annual Stipend (Genecile Weston)
- Recognizing and Promoting the Benefits of a Salary Supplement (Kathy Wheat)
- Establishing a Separate and Higher Salary Scale for SLPs (Claudia Dunaway)
Personnel
- Success Story: Grow Your Own SLP and SLPA Programs
- Addressing Shortages: Funding Speech-Language Pathology Assistant Programs (YouTube video - Kathy Wheat)
- Securing a Fund for Improvement of Education Grant to Address Personnel Shortages (Nancy Kuhles and Christine Verre-Tierney)
Unique Advocacy Initiatives
- Obtaining Grant Funding from the Lions Club (Jennifer Gibbs)
- Returning SLP-Generated Medicaid Funds to the SLP Budget (Ellen Estomin)
- Using Local Funds to Increase Services to Children by Purchasing Sound Field Amplification Systems (Lisa McDonald)
- Funding a Bidialectal Program With Regular Education Funds (Kelli Wright)
- Using Grants and Local Money to Provide Enhanced Services to Children (Robert Maxwell)
- Collaborating With Local Organizations to Obtain Funding (Barbara Gerhard)
- Funding an Extracurricular Activities Program for Children With Special Needs (Joanna Hornbeck)
