Friday, April 13, 2018

Workload vs. Caseload

It's 2018, and we need to move away from thinking about productivity as a function of caseload - especially us school based therapists.  SOOOOOO much of what we do is not accounted for in just the IEP minutes.  AOTA has been relatively silent on this issue that has plagued the therapy world for all the 20 years I've been practicing. 

I took it upon myself to put together a calculator to help me see how "productive" I am throughout the week.  Once I sat down and wrote out all I did in a week - I was exhausted.  =)  This will give you some much needed numbers with which to go to your administrator to show them that you need more help. 

Click picture for access to the calculator

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