Your first year is a lot.
You weren't taught this part.
Grad school taught you to evaluate and diagnose. It didn't teach you how to build a caseload schedule, run an IEP meeting, or take data on five students at once. Those are systems — and you can learn them faster than you think.
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If it feels overwhelming, that's not a sign you chose the wrong career. You're learning the job while also doing the job.
What grad school didn't cover
Every new school-based SLP runs into the same three walls. None of them are about clinical skill.
Turning an evaluation into a year of programming
You can administer a standardized test and defend a diagnosis. But an annual IEP asks something different — what are this student's present levels, which goals follow from them, and how will you show progress in nine months? That's a different skill, and nobody walks you through it.
Collecting data you can actually use later
Taking data during a session is hard enough. Taking data that still makes sense at progress report time — that maps to how the goal was written — is harder. Most new SLPs discover the gap in December, with a stack of sticky notes and a deadline.
Walking into an IEP meeting prepared
The meeting where a parent asks "how do you know?" is the one that makes or breaks your confidence. Having clear present levels, a graph, and a history you can point to changes that conversation completely.
Systems you don't have to invent
Built by school-based SLPs who remember the first year. Start with one student this week and see what it saves you.
Screeners that do the structure for you
Administer a built-in screener, score as you go, and get a profile of strengths and needs you can defend.
See how it works → Goal bankGoals that are measurable by default
Stop guessing whether a goal is written well. The SMART goal generator keeps them objective and customizable.
See how it works → Daily dataOne place for every data point
Collect during the session, print graphs for parents, and stop reconstructing your week from memory.
See how it works → SchedulingA schedule that survives September
Build your caseload schedule around everyone else's, in a few clicks, and feed it into your data agenda.
See how it works → Lesson planningPlans you don't build from scratch
Pull from a library of SLP-written lesson plans with materials and targets already mapped out.
See how it works → ReportsThe printout for your first IEP meeting
Goal, data points, average, and progress graph on one page — ready to hand to a parent or a team.
See how it works →New grads get their first year for $43
Starting out is expensive, and a first-year salary doesn't leave much room for tools you pay for yourself. So three times a year we open the SLP Toolkit CF Scholarship: a full year of SLP Toolkit for $43 instead of $215 — about 80% off — for clinicians in their clinical fellowship year.
- Who it's for: new graduates completing their CF year
- What you get: a full year of SLP Toolkit, every feature included
- When it opens: May, August, and December each year
- How to apply: complete a short form verifying your new-grad status. If you're approved, you'll get a promo code by email to use at signup.
Applications are only open during those three windows. If it's closed when you visit, the page will tell you when it reopens.
See the CF Scholarship$215 $43
for your first full year
Opens May · August · December
Verification form required
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Three posts that answer the questions new school-based SLPs ask us most.
You're going to be a really good SLP
You don't need years of experience — you need systems that hold up. Start with one student this week.
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