Category: Push-in

While traditionally many SLPs practiced only the pull-out service delivery model, this has been changing in recent years and the expectation that school SLPs provide services using the push-in model is increasingly common. In New York City, Chancellor of the Depart of Education, Dennis Walcott called for a push-in model to be used with students receiving related services. When I started working at a middle school in Brooklyn, I did not have any previous experiences providing services by pushing in. At the school placement I had done in graduate school, the SLP I worked with used the pull-out model. When I asked around for advice, I was hearing that a lot of SLPs wanted to provide push-in therapy and wanted to go into the classrooms but most did not know how to do it effectively. Read More