School District Success Stories—Learn how school-based SLPs have successfully advocated for improved conditions in their district.
Template letter to your administrator [DOC] – use to request a meeting to go over data from the workload calculator, highlight results, and identify next steps to address workload successes and challenges.
State Caseload Chart [PDF] – caseload guidance from states, including contacts and links to state regulations.
ASHA Workload Calculator – weekly, monthly, and telepractice worksheets and workload analysis tools to identify workload responsibilities for your caseload.
2022 Schools Survey: Caseload and Workload Characteristics [PDF] – data from the Schools Survey on employment, caseload and workload sizes, areas of intervention, and workload responsibilities.
NEA Backgrounder: Special Education Workload Analysis Model [PDF] – framework to adapt to the changing responsibilities of special education service providers.
Working for Change: A Guide for Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists in Schools [PDF] – Strategies on how to negotiate with school unions/associations and school administrators to advocate for identified individual and local needs.
School Funding Advocacy – Tools to identify and understand the complex and multiple funding processes involved in public school–based services from federal, state, and local perspectives.
Increasing Salaries in the Schools – Information on advocating for higher salaries and additional benefits with school unions and administrators.
Salary Supplement Initiative – Steps to advocate for a salary supplement through state legislation and regulation as well as through local district initiatives.
Schools Survey Workforce and Working Conditions [PDF] – Data from the latest Schools Survey on employment, years of experience in the profession and in the schools, geographic location, and other work-related questions.
Appropriate School Facilities for Students With Speech-Language-Hearing Disorders –Minimum requirements for creating optimal learning and assessment environments for students.
IDEA Part B: Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students – Federal regulation that supports service delivery that recognizes cultural and linguistic diversity.
HHS Notice and Guidance on Gender Affirming Care, Civil Rights, and Patient Privacy [PDF] – Clarification and guidance on gender affirming care and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act.
Supporting and Working with Transgender and Gender-Diverse People – Guidance on appropriate practices when working with transgender and gender-diverse people.
State Association Workload Advocacy Survey Template – State association leaders can survey their members about workload challenges using this state workload survey template.
ASHA State-by-State – state requirements and contact information, hot topics, trends, and advocacy resources.
State Education Advocacy Leaders (SEALs) – Appointed by ASHA-recognized state speech-language-hearing associations, SEALs advocate on education issues, including caseload/workload, salary supplements, and maintenance on personnel standards. SEALs is one of the ASHA State-Based Advocacy Networks.
Learn how school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs) have successfully advocated for improved conditions in their districts.