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Conquer Your Clinical Fellowship (CF)

There isn't an "easy button" for your clinical fellowship, but we can help!

Congratulations! You completed that grueling coursework and earned your Master's degree in speech-language pathology! You're moving onto your clinical fellowship and diving into your placement.

Between the IEP’s, Medicaid billing, lesson planning, data collection, and actually providing therapy, surviving your CF can feel pretty impossible.

The good news is that you've found a community of SLPs who have survived thrived during their CF. We've pulled together our favorite resources to help you through each step--from preparing to start your CF to finally earning those CCCs!

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The Ultimate CF Binder

This binder includes all of the organizational tools that you need to start your clinical fellowship off on the right foot.

From managing paperwork, navigating your caseload, to keeping track of your CF requirements--this binder will help you keep track of all. the. things.

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Let's dive into all of the tips!

Use the buttons below to scroll to the section that you need right now! (And be sure to bookmark this page for easy access later on!)

Before You Start

Your First Week

CF Supervision

Tips for Success

The Summer Before Your Clinical Fellowship

You made it! Congratulations on finishing grad school! What an amazing accomplishment. 💛

Spoiler Alert: Besides starting your paperwork, there isn’t a lot to prepare for until your placement and caseload are finalized.

However, if you're an over-achiever (like me), check out these blog posts!

Anxious to get started with your CFY? This blog provides 8 tips for things to think about and help you get ready before you know your caseload.

The Summer Before Your Clinical Fellowship Year (CF): 8 Tips for the Overachiever

We asked hundreds of SLPs what they wish they knew before their clinical fellowship year (CFY) and they answered!

What We Wish We Knew Before Our Clinical Fellowship (CF)

This blog provides a quick overview of the paperwork that will be required to start (and complete!) your CF.

All You Need to Know About Paperwork for Your Clinical Fellowship (CF)

Your First Week

Your first week on the job will be full of highs and lows and you'll be bombarded with a lot of stuff.

Use our checklist to break down your tasks. (That alone will help a ton!)

Also, don't forget to take a step back when you feel overwhelmed. Even taking 5-minute breaks to listen to music can make a big difference. Take your lunch break and break up your tasks.

You've got this!

A Checklist for Week 1 of Your Clinical Fellowship Year (CFY)

A Checklist for Week 1 of Your Clinical Fellowship (CF)

Getting started at a new school with a new caseload? It can feel overwhelming to have to do that, and you've got enough on your plate as a busy SLP! Find out how to set up your caseload quickly and easily to make your speech therapy more efficient and productive. Click through to read the post!

How to Set up Your Caseload

Dreading the speech therapy scheduling nightmare? Read about this fun and easy scheduling solution that school SLPs AND teachers love.

How to Make Scheduling Easy: Scheduling Party for SLPs

In this week's episode of the SLP Now podcast, Marisha shares practical strategies to help speech-language pathologists navigate the first few weeks of the school year and set themselves up for success. From building relationships with school staff + teachers to organizing your data collection systems, SLPs will walk away with practical tips and strategies to "work smarter" in their speech therapy sessions.

#018: Strategies for Success in Your First Week

In this course, Marisha shares practical strategies to help speech-language pathologists navigate the first few weeks of the school year and set themselves up for success. She dives into facilitating more meaningful outcomes for students, managing your caseload, building data collection systems, and streamlining the therapy planning process. SLPs will walk away with practical tips and strategies to "work smarter" in their speech therapy sessions.

#021: Navigating the First Few Weeks of Therapy

In this blog post we discuss tips and ideas for your first week of therapy as a CF.

Planning Your First Week of Therapy

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CF Supervision

Your relationship with your supervisor can make or break your CF! These blog posts will help you make the most of this opportunity.

This blog discusses the importance of the relationship you have with your supervisor in your CFY. Here are three quick tips on how to foster and build that relationship.

CF Supervision: Fostering the Relationship

This blog post shares some examples of how your clinical fellowship year supervisor might help support you.

CF Supervision: What Your Supervisor Can Do to Support You

This blog post provides tips on how to become more independent and stand out to your CFY supervisor. We provide a list of things you can do before going to your supervisor for quick answers.

CF Supervision: How to Build Independence

Tips for Success

Now that you’ve got all of the major things settled, let’s talk about how you can set yourself up for success.

Setting up a system for managing paperwork, your workload, and overall organization will be crucial for keeping work at work.

If you're looking for resources to feel more confident about your therapy, check out this page.

Is your paperwork load for your speech therapy caseload giving you headaches? Let me help you better manage your paperwork with the tips I share in this blog post! Perfect for busy SLPs who need their time for teaching students!

How to Manage Your Paperwork

Trying to decide how to set up your student data in your speech therapy room? Click for an overview of different data taking systems outlined just for SLPs!

The Best Way to Collect Speech Therapy Data

As an SLP, it’s an essential part of your job to collect data, which of course you know! However, sometimes we need to use that data to figure out if we’re providing speech therapy students with the right level of support. Probe data helps you do that, and this blog post explains how to effectively use probe data. Click through to get the full scoop!

How to Organize Probe Data

Student goals are just as important in the speech room as they are in the regular classroom. They can feel overwhelming and hard to manage, but I've found an easy system that I'm sharing in this post. Click through to read about it and to download a freebie!

Speech Room Organization: Student Goals

There are tons of awesome handouts and forms for SLPs available on Teachers Pay Teachers, speech blogs, and other websites. However, I've made a round-up of the handouts and forms for SLPs that I consider to be most helpful for speech and language therapy. Click through to check them out, especially because many of these speech forms are free!

Must-Have Handouts and Forms for SLPs

You can plan for a month of speech therapy in 30 minutes! Let's chat about some tips and tricks to make that possible! Click through to read this blog post with guidance on how to make this possible for your therapy practices.

#055: Therapy Planning Bootcamp – Revamping Your Therapy Routine

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SLP Now Membership

The SLP Now membership includes all of the tools you need to streamline your caseload management. It's never been easier to plan your therapy, document parent/teacher communication, track student data, and bill Medicaid. You can say "bye" to that mountain of sticky notes and scraps of paper scattered around your therapy room!

Ready to try it today? It's FREE for 14 days!

Sign Up for the Free Trial!