Ten years of building for school SLPs.
SLP Toolkit started in a speech room in Mesa, Arizona, built by two school-based SLPs who needed it themselves. A decade later, more than 15,000 SLPs use it to do the work once and walk into meetings ready.
We build for the SLP and the students they serve. Every decision starts with whether it makes a real school day work better.
It started with progress reports
In January 2015, Lisa was the lead SLP for the largest school district in Arizona, supporting over 100 clinicians. Sarah was serving students at her elementary school. They sat down in Sarah's speech room to talk about one specific problem: progress reports.
For a caseload of 60 to 65 students, each with one to three goals, reporting four times a year is a mountain of work. And the data needed to write those reports was scattered across notebooks, sticky notes, spreadsheets, and district systems that were never built for how SLPs actually work.
That conversation kept widening. Not just progress reports, but present levels, goals, daily data, scheduling — the whole documentation load. Lisa had heard the same thing from clinicians across the district, and had felt it herself. Sarah had been trying to solve it on her own for years.
They looked for something built for SLPs. It didn't exist. So they started building it after hours and on weekends, while still working full time in the schools.
What we decided early
A few choices from the beginning that still shape every release.
It has to match a real school day
Present levels, goals, daily data, and scheduling in one place, in the order clinicians actually work. Not a generic education tool with a speech tab bolted on.
An SLP can afford it themselves
We funded the build ourselves rather than taking investment, so nobody is pushing us to raise prices on the people we built it for. Plenty of SLPs pay out of pocket. That stays in front of us.
The field tells us what's next
Features come from what clinicians tell us is breaking in their week. We'd rather do a few things well than ship a checklist nobody asked for.
Ten years in
Where it started and how it grew.
A conversation in a speech room
Two school SLPs map out what a tool built for their own workflow would need to do, and start building it on nights and weekends.
SLP Toolkit launches
Present level assessments and progress monitoring, priced so an individual SLP could say yes without district approval.
All in on the field
Lisa and Sarah move to supporting SLP Toolkit full time, with the product growing through what clinicians asked for next.
More than 15,000 SLPs
Individual clinicians and district teams use SLP Toolkit to keep data in one place, write defensible goals, and finish documentation inside the contracted day.
The SLPs behind it
Both still work in the field, and both still answer to it.
Lisa Kathman
M.S. CCC-SLP · Co-founder
Lisa has spent nearly 30 years with students and clinicians — in schools, private practice, preschool programs, home health, and district leadership. As lead SLP for Arizona's largest school district, she supported over 100 clinicians and heard the same documentation problems from all of them. That view shaped what SLP Toolkit became.
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Sarah Bevier
M.S. CCC-SLP · Co-founder
Sarah has been rooted in public schools since 2006, serving students and supporting fellow clinicians for nearly two decades. She has worked as an SLPA, a speech-language technician, and an SLP, which gives her a clear read on where school-based workflows break and what actually helps.
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The product is one way we support the field. It isn't the only one.
SLP Summit
The biannual SLP Summit is a premier online conference that brings together SLPs from around the globe. Established in 2017 as the first-of-its-kind summit for SLPs, this event has grown to become a trusted source of knowledge, inspiration, and networking opportunities within the field of speech, language and hearing sciences and beyond!
We host it through our sister company, Bright Ideas Media.
See the next Summit →Toolkit University
A community and learning space for SLP Toolkit users — walkthroughs, workflows, and answers from people who do this job. Less a course catalog, more a place to ask what a real week looks like and get a straight answer.
Both exist because an SLP is often the only one in the building who does what they do.
What hasn't changed in ten years
See what ten years of listening built
Present levels, goals, daily data, progress monitoring, and scheduling — in one place, built around how school SLPs actually work.
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