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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've worked for 15+ years as a special ed paraprofessional and I have observed that speech teachers have the sweetest job in the school.  Also very rewarding.[/quote]

What's a speech teacher? You mean an SLP? What makes it the sweetest job in the school? My SLP friends seem to be pretty over worked. Not that they don't enjoy it, but there seems to be huge numbers of students and paperwork.[/quote]

The SLP at my school has plenty of time built into her schedule for paperwork, plus the SLP and all of the special ed teachers have an entire day of the week off from students for admin work. It's the day when the IEP/EMT meetings are scheduled so sometimes they attend the meetings if it's their grade level but often times they don't have meetings scheduled for their students so they have an entire full day of the week to plan and do paperwork. They are excused from any before and after school duties because they have convinced the principal that they have such a large workload. They have max 10-11 kids on their caseload and 2 paras who help fulfill the IEP hours and also do their filing for them. They rarely arrive early and they walk out right after dismissal, often already dressed in workout clothes.

Must be nice. [/quote]

There is no way that an MCPS SLP has a caseload of 10-11 kids.  Full time is more in the range of 60-65.[/quote]

Ok but what I want to know is how does the size of their caseload affect what they have to do at home at night?  Do SLPs really have to do much lesson planning or does a high case load just mean they are busier during their workday?  I can handle being busy at work, I just want to be able to go home and be DONE![/quote]

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