Speaker: Olivia Scheel, Speech Language Pathologist, IEP Therapy
Olivia Scheel: Hi, my name is Olivia and I'm a school based SLP. This is my second year working and my first year using SLP Toolkit and SLP Toolkit has like, it sounds so cheesy, but it has literally changed my year the way that I do therapy. Everything. It's been incredibly helpful. My first year I just did everything paper-pencil and it was so time consuming. It would take me probably like minimum an hour every day to do my billing, to calculate all my percentages, like take it from the paper, put it into the website. Now with SLP Toolkit, like a full day will take me 20 minutes max for billing. It has drastically cut down on the amount of time that I'm spending on paperwork and billing. And my schedule is so much more free to pull kids in for extra sessions, go observe kids in their classrooms, do continuing education. It's just been incredible. A few things that I specifically have loved about SLP Toolkit - I love that it calculates the elicited accuracy and so it gives me what they can do independently and then also their accuracy with when they're given cues and it just does that automatically. I love the reporting feature. It gives you graphs and it shows progress. So it's great to show to parents and I've even used it with kids, like every session I'll pull up their graph and they get so excited and they really start buying into therapy and what we're doing when they see how their progress is changing week to week. So that's been awesome. The last thing that I really, really love is the present levels and the progress monitoring assessments. It's been incredibly helpful with me. It's been incredibly helpful for me when thinking about goal writing, especially when kids' annual conferences are coming up. And I'm trying to think about like what would be a next, you know, good area to start working on. In the past, I would kind of like maybe do a few activities and see how do they do with these activities. And that was kind of my data that would support writing a new goal, but it's been so nice to have not only probes that are specific to a language or speech skill, but then also more broad present levels assessments. If I get a new kid or something that I can use to have data to support, why I'm targeting the skills that I'm targeting. It's been incredible, I cannot recommend it enough. It is so worth the money. And I, I feel like my takeaway, really, is that SLP Toolkit is just helping me to be the SLP that I've always wanted to be. Just really intentional, really data driven. Yeah, so I love it and cannot recommend it enough.
