I admire the letter by Rose Walk in the Feb. 18 issue of The ASHA Leader. This is concerning the need to reduce the caseloads of school speech-language pathologists, and in this regard, questioning the desirability of working with school children who have reading problems. I agree with her; school SLPs cannot be all things to all people all the time. There is simply a limit. Dysphagia treatment is another area that can be questioned as to its priority in a clinician's caseload. Conditions in the schools are such that the luxury of adding to the clinician's workload should not be implemented. It is clearly a hardship.
School SLPs are in an advantageous position to draw the line as to the limits of their workload.
Robert Shapiro
Andover, MA
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