The School SLP Mentorship Program

Your first year, mapped out, month by month.

Ten months of clinical guidance, New Jersey-specific compliance know-how, and workbook-style tools — built for the SLP who's asking "where do I even begin?”

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WHY THIS PROGRAM EXISTS

Graduate school teaches the clinical skills. It rarely teaches the job.

Built for NJ, specifically

NJAC 6A:14 timelines, PRISE, PWN, and Medicaid documentation — the compliance details that generic SLP resources leave out.

Structured like the school year

Ten modules, one per month, moving from your very first week to your first career-planning conversation — in the order every school-based SLP actually experiences them.

Actually usable, not just readable

Every month includes workbook activities, reflection prompts, and a toolkit of templates you'll open again and again.

10 Folders. One School Year.

The Year at a Glance

Each month builds on the last — open a tab below to see what's inside.

Join whenever you're ready. Your ten-month journey starts the day you enroll. Month One arrives immediately, and a new month unlocks every 30 days after that. Whether you join in September or February, you get the full program, in order, from the beginning.

  • Your first weeks: how NJ districts are organized, who's on your team, and the systems that keep a whole caseload from feeling unmanageable.

    • School Structure

    • The Special Education Team

    • Referral Pathways

    • Scheduling

    • Digital Organization

    • Building Relationships

  • Moving from surviving your schedule to planning therapy with intention — and bringing teachers into the process with you.

    • Therapy Planning Systems

    • Mixed Groups

    • Data Collection

    • MTSS/RTI

    • Push-In vs. Pull-Out

    • Co-Teaching

    • Classroom Observation

  • From "giving tests" to understanding a student's full communication story — referrals, timelines, consent, and every source of evaluation data.

    • Referrals

    • Timelines

    • Consent

    • Assessment Selection

    • Parent & Teacher Interviews

    • Record Review

    • Dynamic Assessment

    • Language Sampling

    • Observation

  • Turning evaluation data into a report a family can actually understand — strength-based, neurodiversity-affirming, and defensible.

    • Writing efficiently

    • Professional Language

    • Neuro-Diversity Affirming/Strengths-Based Writing

    • Recommendations

    • Eligibility Rationale

    • Strong Conclusions

    • Common Mistakes

  • The rules that protect students and guide your practice — NJAC 6A:14, PRISE, IDEA, and the deadlines that keep everything on track.

    • NJAC & PRISE

    • IDEA Basics

    • Progress Reports

    • Annual Reviews

    • Re-Evaluations

    • ESY

    • Medicaid Documentation

    • Prior Written Notice

  • Writing IEPs a teacher could pick up and implement tomorrow — present levels, measurable goals, accommodations, and running the meeting itself.

    • Present Levels

    • Goals & Objectives

    • Accommodations

    • Service Recommendations

    • Progress Monitoring

    • Running Effective Meetings

  • A grounded survey of the populations that don't fit a textbook description — with citations to trusted organizations for going deeper.

    • Autism

    • AAC

    • Gestalt Language Processing

    • Selective Mutism

    • Fluency

    • Speech Sound Disorders

    • Literacy

    • Executive Functioning

    • Behavior

  • The harder conversations — delivering difficult news, resolving conflict, setting boundaries, and speaking up for what a student needs.

    • Parent Communication

    • Teacher Collaboration

    • Conflict Resolution

    • Professional Boundaries

    • Administrator Conversations

    • Dismissals

    • Advocacy

  • Closing out with intention — final decisions, honest progress summaries, clean handoffs, and files your future self will thank you for.

    • Dismissals

    • ESY

    • Progress Summaries

    • Transitions

    • Summer Recommendations

    • File Organization

    • Planning Ahead

  • You made it through year one. Now: burnout prevention, leadership, professional development, and where this career could take you next.

    • Professional Growth

    • Burnout Prevention

    • Leadership

    • Professional Development

    • Private Practice

    • Interviewing

    • Networking

You'll always know what to expect.

Every folder, same rhythm.

The clinical and practical content for the month, explained the way a mentor would explain it — not a textbook.

TOPICS

ACTIVITIES

Hands-on exercises — write a goal, plan a schedule, work a case study — so the ideas turn into practice.

Ready-to-use templates, checklists, and reference sheets you'll reopen long after the month is over.

REFLECTION

A few honest questions to sit with, so the year builds real self-awareness alongside clinical skill.

TOOLKIT

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BONUS RESOURCE

18 case studies, straight out of a real NJ caseload.

No single "right" answer — just the guiding questions a mentor would ask, so you build judgment instead of memorizing outcomes.

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  • Referral and evaluation scenarios: from a limited-impact articulation referral to a private-evaluation request

  • Eligibility and IEP scenarios: borderline scores, parent disagreement, service model debates

  • Complex learner scenarios: gestalt language processing, bilingual selective mutism, behavior as communication

  • Compliance scenarios: a Medicaid documentation gap, an MTSS bypass request

  • Transition and dismissal scenarios: preschool to elementary, an anxious family, a mid-year transfer

Built for the first year — useful well beyond it.

  • New Graduates Starting Their CF Year

  • SLPs Moving Into Schools From Another Setting

  • SLPs new to the New Jersey special education system

  • Anyone who wants a structured refresher, year two and beyond

WHO IT'S FOR

Start the school year with a mentor already in your corner.

Ten months of guidance. One school year. Everything organized before you need it.

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