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

• 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

• Addressing Shortages: Funding Speech-Language Pathology Assistant Programs (Kathy Wheat)
• Securing a Fund for Improvement of Education Grant to Address Personnel Shortages (Nancy Kuhles and Christine Verre-Tierney)

Unique Advocacy Initiatives

• 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)
• Creating a Research Partnership Between Universities and Schools (Claudia Dunaway and Emily Rubin)