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[quote=Anonymous]There is no way that any slp at any public elem school has a caseload of 10-11 kids. The average kid on,y receives speech for 30 minutes- 1 hour once a week, many more on a strictly consult basis which is why an slp can have 60+ kids on their caseload as well as very often doing small group therapy to manage the number of students. 
A full time SpEc caseload is about 10-12 students, and depending on the student needs the teacher can have IA's help fulfill the student needs if they can't fulfill it on their own or if the principal feels the need doesn't need a certified teacher there to meet the need.  I'm a Sped teacher and I do not get any guaranteed time to do paperwork or testing. However when I do need to do testing sometimes I pull that student to test at a time when I would be in their classroom anyway.  Sometimes I can't do that or it's a new referral for initial eligibility and I just have to find the time by not going to one of the classrooms I am normally in- I try to spread it out so I don't always miss services for the same students.
I think this varies by school as well- I have a colleague who never did testing at their previous school (same district) because their school had a part time teacher who managed and did all the educational testing for them. [/quote]

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