Session Descriptions for ASHA Workload Boot Camp: Strategic Solutions for School-Based Service Delivery
July 17–18, 2025 | In collaboration with the Atlanta Speech School, Atlanta, Georgia
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Speech-language pathologists in schools report that caseload and workload management as the top area of concern impacting them within their practice setting. Speech and language caseloads continue to grow in schools along with associated roles and responsibilities of SLPs. This two-day program will apply a multi-prong approach to address the development of workload management skills across the continuum of services for students; and strategies and tools to support workplace advocacy.
Participants will engage in interactive sessions to assist with analyzing their caseload and workload demands to develop strategies to apply to their clinical decision-making about services; service delivery and scheduling strategies; moving students across the continuum of services; and working with their school administrators.
The ASHA Workload Boot Camp includes six, 90-minute presenter-led sessions and one, 75-minute panel session. Participants will be able to walk away from this event with information, resources, and strategies that they can apply to their caseloads and workload management.
Participants are asked to bring their personal laptop or tablet as well as caseload/workload information.
Learning Outcomes
1. Utilize data to assist with making speech service admission and dismissal determinations.
2. Acquire service delivery and scheduling strategies to assist with caseload management.
3. Utilize the ASHA Workload Calculator (AWC) to analyze current caseload and workload demands.
4. Develop talking points to use with administrators when discussing workload and caseload concerns.
5. Navigate dismissal processes when students are no longer eligible for speech-language services.
6. Recognize potential ethical issues when moving students across the continuum of speech-language services.
Learning Modules
Module 1: Utilizing Eligibility Criteria to Shape Your Caseload
Module 2: Maximizing Varied Service Delivery Models to Manage Workload
Module 3: Leveraging the Workload Calculator for Advocacy and Workload Management
Module 4: Dismissal Practices: Determining When Students Have Maximized the Benefit of Speech-Language Services
Module 5: Effectively Communicating with Administrators about Caseload and Workload Demands
Module 6: Ethical Dilemmas in Speech-Language Services in Schools
Module 7: Panel Discussion: Putting Everything Together and Creating a Workload Management Plan
