About Us
Membership
The ACSLP includes speech-language pathologists who are chiefs, managers or supervisors of speech and language departments within publicly funded school boards in Ontario. District school boards without a speech-language pathologist in a leadership position are invited to select a staff S-LP to join the association. The ACSLP meets as a smaller leadership team and as a large group that includes S-LP staff representatives. Meetings occur at various times throughout the school year.
Purpose
ACSLP provides speech language pathologists, employed by Ontario district school boards, an opportunity to:
- collaborate and advocate on behalf of children regarding relevant provincial policies impacting students with communication disorders
- share evidence based practices and local solutions for supporting school age children with communication disorders in the school setting.
- connect with researchers evaluating best practices for service delivery
- liaise with the Minister's Advisory Council on Special Education (MACSE)
- liaise with associations that advocate for speech-language pathology services: Ontario Association for Families of Children with Communication Disorders (OAFCCD), Ontario association of Speech Language Pathologists and Audiologists (OSLA), Speech-Language and Audiology Canada (SAC)