Private Speech Language Pathology Services
Advice For Contracting Services

1. Does the clinician have experience working with your child's communication disorder?
   
   
2. How much experience?
   
   
3. What model of service delivery are they prepared to provide? (i.e. direct, consultation, mediator training)
   
   
4. What is their approach to therapy? (i.e. play based? Drill?)
   
   
5. Do they offer group therapy?
   
   
6. Do they work with a Communicative Disorders Assistant, mediator, students, volunteers?
   
   
7. What is their time availability?
   
   
8. Where is treatment conducted? Your home? Their office?
   
   
9. What is their hourly rate? Is it negotiable based on your insurance coverage?
   
   
10. Can sessions be conducted in 30 or 45 minutes based on your child's attention span?
    
    
11. What do they charge for? Phone calls? Travel time? Reports? Meetings?
    
    
12. Is the clinician willing to communicate and share information with the YRPSLP clinician once service has started?