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🗣️Sometimes we overcomplicate the conversation.

Families, teachers, and even clinicians can struggle to understand the difference between school-based and medical-based OT, PT, and Speech services — not because the concepts are too hard, but because the explanations are often too complex.

🤔What if the clearest explanation simply came down to asking the right questions?

Questions like:
✅Who is eligible for the service?
✅What is the focus of the service?
✅ When is it the appropriate service?
✅ Where is the service provided?
✅ How is the service provided?

✨That simple framework can completely change how teams understand school-based services.

👉Want the full breakdown? Read https://www.applyebp.com/ask-applyebp/school-based-services-under-idea-versus-medical-based-services/ where you can also get the FREE infographics, parent/teacher-friendly newsletter, and video that you can share with your school teams and families.

✌🏽 It’s Week 2 of Speech-Language-Hearing Month! 🎉Have you had a chance to celebrate yet?

Let’s keep the momentum going with our FREE, ready-to-use resource: Speech-Language-Hearing Month Book of the Week Series teachers can start using right away. Each week includes a book recommendation for read-alouds with 10-20-minute activities addressing key communication skills:
🗣️Week 1: Speech Sounds and Predictions
🤝Week 2: Social Skills and Interactions
🧠Week 3: Emotion Regulation and Problem-Solving
👥Week 4: Flexible Thinking and Perspective-Taking

✨ Quick, easy, and classroom-friendly. Just download and share with your team via email or print 👉🏽https://www.applyebp.com/ask-applyebp/may-is-speech-language-hearing-month-get-your-free-book-of-the-week-newsletter/

🤩May is Speech-Language-Hearing Month! Let’s celebrate key communication skills that promotes student participation in school, home, and play.

🎁Want a fun and simple way to get your whole school involved? We’ve got just the thing — a FREE, 5-page, ready-to-use resource: Speech-Language-Hearing Month: Book of the Week Series teachers can start using right away. Each week includes a book recommendation for read-alouds with 10-20-minute activities addressing key communication skills:

🗣️Week 1: Speech Sounds and Predictions
🤝Week 2: Social Skills and Interactions
🧠Week 3: Emotion Regulation and Problem-Solving
👥Week 4: Flexible Thinking and Perspective-Taking

The best part? It’s quick, easy, and classroom-friendly. Just click here to download the resource and share it with your team via email or print: https://www.applyebp.com/ask-applyebp/may-is-speech-language-hearing-month-get-your-free-book-of-the-week-newsletter/

Let’s make Speech-Language-Hearing Month a joyful celebration of key communication skills that help students participate, succeed, and shine! ✨

🙏🏽Thank you to everyone who attended the 8th School-based OT, PT & SLP Symposium!

🥳Your presence, participation, and energy made the event truly special—we enjoyed every moment you spent with us.

🎇And we also thank our co-sponsors:
APTA Michigan Pediatric SIG, Legi-liner, Rifton, Pearson, and School Specialty

👉🏽And if you missed it, get it on-demand now: https://www.applyebp.com/live-workshops-grid/8th-school-based-ot-pt-and-slp-symposium-on-demand-version/

2 Days to Go! Are you registered for the 8th School-based OT, PT & SLP Symposium? Don't miss it!

✨ Honored to partner with Pearson, a trusted leader in research-based assessment tools, for the 🏫 8th School-based OT, PT & SLP Symposium
🗓️ April 16–17, 2026, Live online + 1 Year On-demand Access
👉 https://www.applyebp.com/live-workshops-grid/8th-school-based-ot-pt-and-slp-symposium-live-online-spring-2026/

Pearson supports school-based OT, PT, and SLP practitioners with tools that can help evaluate student strengths and needs, inform decision-making, and guide effective, evidence-based interventions.

🎁 Raffle Prize for Symposium Registrants 🎁
Pearson is generously donating a FREE registration to Pearson’s Autism Virtual Summit! 🙋‍♀️ All Symposium registrants are eligible to enter the raffle. 👀 Watch your email for instructions on how to participate — you do not need to be present to win!

🦽🔧 When a wheelchair or seating system isn’t working the way it should, everything—from safety to participation—can fall apart fast. But knowing what you can adjust, what needs a vendor, and what requires replacement isn’t always straightforward.

Join Joanne Bundonis, PT, ATP/SMS, C/NDT, ABPTS Board Certified PCS for “Caring for Wheelchair and Other Seating Devices in the School: The Who’s Who and How-to of Maintain, Adjust, Replace, and Repair” at The 8th School-based OT, PT & SLP Symposium 👉🏽https://www.applyebp.com/live-workshops-grid/8th-school-based-ot-pt-and-slp-symposium-live-online-spring-2026/

In this session, Joanne will help you:
🚦 Use the Traffic Light Decision-Making Framework to know when to maintain, adjust, replace, or refer
🟢 Apply the 3 Keys to Equipment Readiness—Safety, Comfort, and Function—to wheelchairs and other seating and mobility devices
🔗 Collaborate effectively with families, vendors, and ATPs to prevent downtime and keep students moving
🎥 Learn from video demonstrations and real case studies to troubleshoot fit, safety issues, and common equipment problems

✌🏽 It’s Week 2 of OT Month! 🎉Have you had a chance to celebrate yet?

Let’s keep the momentum going with our FREE, ready-to-use resource: 5-Minute Brain & Body Breaks teachers can start using right away. This 4-week series builds key school skills while keeping kids engaged and having fun:

🌬️ Week 1: Big breaths to calm our bodies and get ready to learn
✋ Week 2: Strong hands for writing, creating, and exploring
🤸 Week 3: Coordinated moves to help our bodies work together
🤝 Week 4: Teamwork fun to learn, play, and grow with friends

✨ Quick, easy, and classroom-friendly. Just download and share with your team via email or print. (Please do not post the PDF on social media or other groups.)

https://www.applyebp.com/ask-applyebp/april-is-ot-month-get-your-free-4-week-classroom-brain-and-body-break-newsletter/

April Is OT Month! Get Your Free 4-Week Classroom Brain and Body Break Newsletter Happy OT Month! Grab your FREE 4-Week Brain and Body Break Newsletter for your teacher colleagues

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😶💬 Ever feel like your students aren’t making the progress you hoped for, or that you’re the only one consistently working on their communication goals? Embedding services into daily Pre-K and Kindergarten routines can transform progress, collaboration, and carryover.

Join Beth Gardner, MA, CCC-SLP for “Embedding SLP Supports in Pre-K and Kindergarten: 6 Case Study Applications Across the School Day” at The 8th School-based OT, PT & SLP Symposium on April 16–17, 2026! 👉🏽https://www.applyebp.com/live-workshops-grid/8th-school-based-ot-pt-and-slp-symposium-live-online-spring-2026/

In her seminar, Beth will help you:
✅ Identify meaningful embedding opportunities using tools like SATIRE and the Ecological Congruence Assessment
✅ Apply embedded strategies across six real-life case studies—including AAC users, autistic learners, and students with hearing or developmental differences
✅ Integrate ready-to-use interventions such as modeling, repetition, visual supports, rhythm/music, and teacher collaboration
✅ Use the Embedding Matrix to track goals, routines, and strategies for consistent carryover