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[quote=Anonymous]I am an SLP and there is no way that the SLP didn't know this existed. Perhaps she was just unfamiliar with the title. Pragmatics is one of the 5 domains of language. There is no way you'd leave graduate school without knowing that. Sounds like a miscommunication. That being said, the scope of practice for an SLP in the school system is very different. School SLPs in MCPS are limited to addressing a lack of skills directly related to pragmatic language. Social behavior is left to the school counselors. For this reason, it is difficult to get treatment in the school---they'll only address pragmatics: turn-taking, topic maintenance, initiating conversation, proxemics, etc.  SLPs are experienced beyond this, but the county delineates what can be addressed by the SLP. If the SLP is the only qualified person to address the issue, then it is allowed. But there cannot be any overlap of service and if the need doesn't require the specialized skill of the SLP, but can be addressed by counselor or special ed teacher, it's a no go.[/quote]

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