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From the SBC to Washington, DC! ✈️🏛️💜

Last week, our CEO, Emily Watkins, headed to Capitol Hill with Jeanette Benigas of Fix SLP to talk about something that matters to all of us: keeping speech therapy accessible to the patients who need it. Alongside leading PTP, Emily has helped build this effort from the ground up by gathering national cost data, bringing patient experiences forward, and taking that evidence directly to federal decision-makers.

📊 The SPEAK Project launched in early August and, within just 30 days, collected data from nearly every state, representing more than 1,000 speech-language pathologists, to document what it actually costs to provide these essential services.

Last week, they took that data to congressional offices and CMS to explain how proposed reimbursement cuts could affect practices and the families they serve, and to discuss solutions.

Our families have enough to navigate, and getting the therapy their child depends on shouldn’t become harder. We’re proud to have Emily bringing the same dedication we see at PTP every day to these national conversations. 💜

We’re also grateful to Speaker Mike Johnson for a memorable visit to the Speaker’s Balcony and a tour of the Capitol! @speakermjohnson

💜 Want to help? Answer a few quick questions about what speech therapy has meant to your child. We’ll turn your story into a letter for congressional offices to help decision-makers understand why this therapy matters to families like yours. Find the form through the link in our bio.

#PediatricTherapyPartners #TheSPEAKProject #SpeechTherapy #PatientAccess #SpeechLanguagePathology

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Here’s to advocating for our school-based SLP peers 👊🏼

Slide 1: ASHA Convention 2026 invited session: “Invisible Workload, Visible Impact,” presented by Phuong Palafox on November 20 in Indianapolis.
Slide 2: Published research article, “The Invisible Workload of School-Based Speech-Language Pathologists Who Identify as Overwhelmed,” by Palafox, Kroll, and Morgan.
Slide 3: Community response featuring a Fix SLP podcast discussion about SLP advocacy and feeling unheard.
Slide 4: Community response featuring The Informed SLP discussing advocacy, overwhelm, and the invisible workload of school-based SLPs.
Slide 5: Community response featuring the Unfiltered IEPs podcast by The Advocate SLP discussing what qualitative research revealed about overwhelmed school SLPs and self-advocacy.
Slide 6: Personal reflection from Phuong on the experiences that led to the research and its central message: professionals are already advocating, and the research has caught up with what they have long known.
Slide 7: Fundraising note explaining that ASHA is waiving registration, but travel and lodging are not funded, with an invitation to support Phuong’s trip through the GoFundMe link in bio.

#speechlanguagepathology #asha #schoolbasedslp #speechtherapist #ashaigers

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📣 Make your voice heard!

Help advocate for speech therapy and access to essential services for children and families. 🗣️💙

Take a few minutes to submit a letter to Congress and use your voice to support the voices of those who need it most!

👇 Links below!

https://www.speakproject.net/Friends-of-SLPs
https://form.jotform.com/262386270505154

#UseYourVoice #SpeechTherapy#opendoorpediatrictherapy

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If you or someone you love have benefitted from speech therapy or feeding therapy we need to hear your stories! We need thousands of patient and family letters to be shared with Congress! The SPEAK Project and FIX SLP are going to Capital Hill on September 21st to hand deliver our letters to the people who can make a real difference in this fight. I helped pass Congressional legislation in 2020 extending telehealth services for occupational, physical, speech, feeding therapy and audiology in the middle of the pandemic because I advocated like a mother. Will you stand with me once again to fight for what’s right? No one is coming to save us. It’s up to every day Americans to demand better and unite! 👭👬👫 The Link is in comments to share your story today! 🔗⭐️ #advocate #advocacy #speakproject #fixslp #speechtherapy

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📣 YOUR STORY HAS POWER.
Has speech therapy helped your child communicate, connect, eat safely, or become more independent?
Congress needs to hear your story.
The SPEAK Project is collecting stories from patients and families to show federal leaders why access to speech-language therapy must be protected.
It only takes a few minutes. Your experience can become part of a powerful advocacy letter delivered to the members of Congress making decisions that impact therapy funding.
🗣️ Tell your story. Add your voice. Help protect speech therapy.
Thousands of families. Thousands of stories. One message: Speech therapy matters. 💙

Scan the QR codes or click the link below.
https://form.jotform.com/262386270505154

#SPEAKProject #SpeechTherapyMatters #ProtectSpeechTherapy #SLP #OpenDoorPediatricTherapy

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We stand with @fix.slp for advocating for ourselves regarding CMS and coding changes. We stand with every SLP advocating for the treatment of oral motor dysfunction. #advocacy

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If your child has ever needed speech therapy, this matters to you.

Right now, decisions are being made that could impact how speech-language therapy is valued and reimbursed. And while “reimbursement rates” sounds like something that belongs in a boring meeting somewhere far away from our kids… the consequences absolutely do not.

When reimbursement doesn’t keep up with the actual cost of providing care, clinics struggle to hire and keep SLPs. Providers leave. Insurance options shrink. Waitlists grow. Families drive farther. And sometimes, services simply become unavailable.

We’ve already lived pieces of that reality with Jaxson.

We bounced between clinics and therapists before finally finding consistency. And now? My nonverbal little boy is intentionally making choices with his eyes and learning to communicate using an eye-gaze AAC device—something that once wasn’t even in the cards for him. So I don’t hear “reimbursement rates.”

I hear access.
I hear communication.
I hear independence.
I hear my child’s voice.

The SPEAK project is collecting stories from families RIGHT NOW, because decision-makers need to understand what these numbers actually look like outside of a spreadsheet.

If an SLP has changed your child’s life, please take a few minutes and tell them. You do not have to be an SLP. Parents, caregivers, patients and loved ones—this is where we come in. And then SHARE THIS. Because there are thousands of families who have no idea this conversation is even happening.

We cannot wait until the waitlists are longer, the providers are gone, or the clinics are struggling to stay open to decide we should’ve said something.

👉 Share your story with the SPEAK Project
⁠https://www.speakproject.net/Friends-of-SLPs

@fix.slp

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✨YOUR VOICE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE FOR THE FUTURE OF SPEECH THERAPY ✨

CMS is currently accepting public comments about proposed changes that could significantly impact the future of speech-language pathology and access to care.
If you or a loved one has ever benefited from speech therapy, please consider taking a few minutes to share your story.

👉 Submit your public comment here:

https://form.jotform.com/262386270505154?fbclid=PAVERFWAUNiztwZG9mAmZkaWQWUOHKzdKDJlUQsMCKKy0gKjVNhyiUSmV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDzEyNDAyNDU3NDI4NzQxNAABp5zK-Uy5v4BRW_2oVFNLuadWFZRBCi5Ur2opm0hyi3ds-572zJ5fC0_TjEVF_aem_qwQShOpPCG0sX9BrTHyEDw

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Calling all SLPs & Clients who have received services — Your Voice Matters!

CMS is proposing significant changes to Medicare reimbursement for speech-language pathology services beginning January 1, 2027, including replacing CPT 92507 with new treatment codes that separate services by clinical focus and treatment time. (ASHA (https://www.asha.org/news/2026/cms-proposes-medicare-payment-for-new-speech-language-pathology-treatment-codes/?utm_source=chatgpt.com))

These changes could have a real ripple effect:

🏥 Private practices: Changes in reimbursement could impact staffing, operating costs, and the ability to provide sustainable care.

🗣️ SLPs: New coding and payment structures may change how we document, bill, and structure therapy sessions.

❤️ Patients: If reimbursement becomes inadequate, practices may face difficult decisions that could affect access, availability, and continuity of care.

CMS is accepting public comments through September 14, 2026. This is an opportunity for SLPs, practice owners, healthcare providers, and patients to speak up about the importance of appropriately valuing skilled speech-language pathology services. (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (https://www.cms.gov/medicare/payment/fee-schedules/physician?utm_source=chatgpt.com))

📣 Your voice matters. Advocate for sustainable reimbursement and continued access to quality speech and swallowing care!

https://www.speakproject.net/SLPs-SLPAs

#SpeechTherapy #idahospeechswallowservices #SpeechLanguagePathology #CMS #Medicare

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HELP STOP THE DEVALLUATION of Speech-Language Pathologist's (SLP) medical services. This is a campaign to fight that fight for ALL Speech Therapists. If you don't know there is major change in the world of the SLP's working world coming in hot. If you are a SLP, know a SLP, or have had one make a change in you or your family's life... please consider DONATING $10 to help us keep your favorite private practices in business, because the constant devaluation of each treatment we offer, HAS BEEN CLOSING OFFICES FOR YEARS (making it harder and harder to afford to pay their staff what they deserve and they can't afford to keep their practices going), and the cuts continue to come. This effort will give data and numbers to those making the decisions, so they can see what it really costs to do our jobs (not to mention beyond the actual cost - SLP's are a high level degree with thousands of hours of specialty training).

https://givebutter.com/speakproject?fbclid=PAcGRvZgRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwyNTYyODEwNDA1NTgAAafX-3UH_nR9XrftIHw_Cd6gEDaACeaPijFX_-V_06iGWyEDvnFnod4_Nh5CPg_aem_XEUrUJU48rChw9vtZpJpYA

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If you’re like me & enjoy learning on the go this post is for you!! These are some of my go to SLP podcasts with excellent useful content to learn about a variety of things related to our profession. Enjoy!!
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#SLP #alwayslearning #educationonthego #autism #earlyintervention

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current speech room favorite 🦺✨🚧

This new accessory construction kit by @chomper_champs_speechtherapy x @fix.slp is interactive, engaging, and so easy to use across different speech and language goals!!

Join the Chomper Champs fun, shop my link in bio 🫶🏼

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