WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.070 --> 00:00:02.880 So my name is Sean Knapp. 2 00:00:02.880 --> 00:00:04.650 I am a Speech Language Pathologist, 3 00:00:04.650 --> 00:00:06.120 line:15% or a Speech Therapist, 4 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:08.330 line:15% in a high school within a specialized program 5 00:00:08.330 --> 00:00:09.640 line:15% called the Meadowood Program. 6 00:00:09.640 --> 00:00:13.040 line:15% And I work with kids with mild-to-severe 7 00:00:13.040 --> 00:00:15.160 line:15% intellectual disabilities and I try to help them 8 00:00:15.160 --> 00:00:17.240 line:15% on their way to vocational tasks. 9 00:00:17.240 --> 00:00:20.770 Like jobs, things that they could do outside of high school. 10 00:00:20.770 --> 00:00:23.390 Some of my kids use speech 11 00:00:23.390 --> 00:00:25.760 line:15% and work on higher language skills 12 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:30.320 line:15% and more subtle pragmatics or social language tasks. 13 00:00:30.320 --> 00:00:32.120 line:15% And then I also have kids who are what 14 00:00:32.120 --> 00:00:33.710 I would consider beginning communicators, 15 00:00:33.710 --> 00:00:37.840 who only have one to five 16 00:00:37.840 --> 00:00:41.950 expressive and receptive concepts 17 00:00:41.950 --> 00:00:44.630 that they can use and understand readily. 18 00:00:44.630 --> 00:00:47.143 On a busy day, I would say I get in at 7:20. 19 00:00:48.570 --> 00:00:51.340 I check emails for about 10 minutes. 20 00:00:51.340 --> 00:00:54.900 Then from 7:30 to 8:00, I see one student in particular. 21 00:00:54.900 --> 00:00:56.970 She is working on social skills, 22 00:00:56.970 --> 00:01:00.000 line:15% those basic responding sort of back and forth 23 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:02.320 line:15% Hi, how are you, how are you doing kind of thing, 24 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:04.770 line:15% and then hopefully that student is also 25 00:01:04.770 --> 00:01:06.160 line:15% coming up with their own questions, 26 00:01:06.160 --> 00:01:10.080 and doing that kind of thing from 7:30 to 8:00. 27 00:01:10.080 --> 00:01:13.650 And then from eight to roughly nine o'clock, 28 00:01:13.650 --> 00:01:16.750 I will see one to three different types of students, 29 00:01:16.750 --> 00:01:18.860 depending on the day. 30 00:01:18.860 --> 00:01:22.220 I also am doing two different types of 31 00:01:22.220 --> 00:01:24.683 literacy interventions with two students. 32 00:01:25.550 --> 00:01:26.690 'Cuz neither of them know how to read, 33 00:01:26.690 --> 00:01:28.090 even though they're both 18. 34 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:31.890 So I'm doing, this one student has been flying 35 00:01:31.890 --> 00:01:33.110 through the program that I know 36 00:01:33.110 --> 00:01:35.780 that was developed here at Penn State. 37 00:01:35.780 --> 00:01:40.500 And he is now reading consonant, vowel, consonant words 38 00:01:40.500 --> 00:01:42.410 line:15% very well in isolation. 39 00:01:42.410 --> 00:01:44.460 line:15% And the other student that I'm working with is 40 00:01:44.460 --> 00:01:48.150 line:15% working on some really basic sound recognition 41 00:01:48.150 --> 00:01:50.710 line:15% skills that she will hopefully be able to transfer 42 00:01:50.710 --> 00:01:53.880 those skills to reading, literacy skills. 43 00:01:53.880 --> 00:01:57.140 On a different day, I will go into the community with them. 44 00:01:57.140 --> 00:02:02.000 Whether it's Walgreens, 'cuz some kids help stock shelves. 45 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:04.340 Other kids do recycling at different events, 46 00:02:04.340 --> 00:02:07.720 different buildings around in the area. 47 00:02:07.720 --> 00:02:10.800 So because I have such a complex case load, 48 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:15.320 my load is much lighter compared to another SLP 49 00:02:15.320 --> 00:02:17.290 that would work in like a regularized school. 50 00:02:17.290 --> 00:02:21.870 I've heard case loads go up to 60, 80, 90 kids. 51 00:02:21.870 --> 00:02:22.803 And I have 20. 52 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:28.200 line:15% But my intervention load is heavier. 53 00:02:28.200 --> 00:02:32.515 line:15% So I have students that I only see for 90 minutes a month. 54 00:02:32.515 --> 00:02:34.280 line:15% But then I have a student that I see 55 00:02:34.280 --> 00:02:35.840 line:15% for four hours a week. 56 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:38.270 So it's a huge differentiation in the amount 57 00:02:38.270 --> 00:02:39.740 of intervention these kids are getting. 58 00:02:39.740 --> 00:02:41.240 And the types of intervention.