Benefits to the Speech-Language Pathologist
- Facilitate caseload planning and management
- Support writing functional IEP goals
- Establish entrance and dismissal criteria for different communication disorders
- Project the average amount of time required to resolve communication disorders at different grade levels
- Determine the amount of progress that might be expected
- Determine preferred type and model of service delivery for different communication disorders at different grade levels
- Improve the quality of the speech and language services
What Does a Speech-Language Pathologist need to do to Participate in NOMS?
- Make a commitment to report outcomes data as part of other record-keeping activities
- Submit data to ASHA
- Encourage colleagues to make a commitment to data collection
- Recommend that the school system become involved in NOMS data collection
Benefits to the Administrator
- Benchmark outcomes of school systems with aggregated national results
- Establish preferred practice patterns
- Determine the impact that improved communication skills will have on improved reading and writing abilities
- Facilitate the functioning of students receiving special education services in general education
- Improve the quality of speech and language services
- Identify changing trends that might affect staffing patterns or teaching methods
- Obtain demographic information needed for Department of Education reports
- Advocate for speech and language services
- Better allocate limited financial and personnel resources
- No costs to participants to obtain district and national outcomes data at end of each academic year
What Does an Administrator need to do to Participate in NOMS?
- Provide staffing time and support for data collection
- Make NOMS data collection a priority
- Identify a liaison or NOMS subscriber to coordinate NOMS data collection between ASHA and the clinicians
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