Speech-language support for K-12 districts
Empat Speech helps K-12 districts expand access to speech-language services and build sustainable programs. We bring SLP staffing, technology for your own clinicians, and clinical partnership together to support student progress and manageable workloads.
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Your SLPs, our SLPs, or a combination. Start with the support you need.
For district leaders
Staffing needs, growing caseloads, and deadlines can leave little room to step back. We start with your priorities and build on what your team already does well.
Add experienced school-based SLPs who work with your teachers, families, and clinicians as part of the school team.
Ask about virtual or in-person support and bilingual Spanish clinicians. We’ll confirm availability, licensure, and fit for your location and students.
Equip your district’s own SLPs with the Empat Speech Platform and support putting it to work in their day.
Work with our team on consistent workflows, progress monitoring, and the follow-through that turns information into better support.
Choose one area or combine them. You can use our platform and program support with your own clinicians.
The Empat Speech Platform
Bring therapy planning, session data, documentation, and service tracking into one place. Available to your district’s own SLPs, including clinicians delivering care in person.
Plan individual and group sessions with engaging, standards-aligned activities tailored to student goals, skill levels, and interests.
Use recorded session data to draft session notes and progress reports. SLPs review, edit, and approve the documentation.
Keep student goals and session data connected, making it easier to understand progress and prepare for clinical review.
Designed to support your clinical judgment and fit your team’s work.
For SLP coordinators and district leaders
Bring progress, service delivery, and caseload information into view so your team can prioritize follow-up and decide where to adjust support.
A sustainable speech program
We work with your team to establish consistent workflows, use progress and service data, and identify practical changes that support students and clinicians.
Start with a priority such as more consistent progress monitoring, earlier follow-up on missed services, or clearer workload visibility. Together, we agree on the scope and what success looks like.
Discuss your program prioritiesAreas we can explore with your team
Explore how speech-language support fits your district’s early intervention approach, including MTSS or RTI, and how teams monitor response and identify when evaluation may be needed.
Work toward consistent processes that connect assessment findings, classroom needs, and educational impact. Eligibility decisions remain with the appropriate school team.
Connect measurable goals and meaningful starting points to individualized therapy, engaging practice, and reliable service delivery.
Clarify what to measure, how to track it consistently, and when to review progress. Use the findings to decide whether to continue or adjust support.
Support team decisions about continuing, changing, or ending services based on student needs and evidence. When a student no longer needs specialized services, plan for continued success in the classroom.
Listen to your team.Start with your priorities, current workflows, and what is already working.
Choose a focused starting point.Address a coverage need or begin with one clinician, school, or workflow.
Review and build together.Agree on what success looks like, review progress, and adapt the partnership as your needs change.
Why Empat exists
Every student who needs speech-language support deserves access to care that helps them thrive. Our purpose is to help students communicate, participate, and make meaningful progress - and help districts build the capacity to support them over time.
A few common questions
Yes. Your own clinicians can use the Empat Speech Platform, including in-person SLPs. We can also discuss a partnership around your team’s workflows and program priorities. Staffing is optional.
Yes. A starting point could be one SLP, one school, a specific coverage need, or a workflow your team wants to improve. We’ll define the scope and success measures together.
We start by understanding your team’s workflows and documentation requirements. Together, we identify where Empat can help and what adoption would involve. In a demo, we can walk through planning, documentation, service-minute tracking, and deadlines.
Clinical decisions stay with qualified professionals and the appropriate school team. Technology helps organize information and draft documentation; SLPs review, edit, and approve reports.
We’ll discuss your priorities, current staffing and workflows, and timing. For staffing, we’ll confirm location, licensure, and availability. For the platform or program support, we’ll identify a useful demonstration or focused starting point and discuss scope and pricing.
Let’s find your district’s starting point
Whether you need an SLP, better tools for your clinicians, or support strengthening your program, we’ll help you identify a practical next step.
For speech-language pathologists
Join a close community of school-based SLPs, with W-2 employment and clinical leadership you can turn to. We’re growing with intention so clinicians stay connected, supported, and heard.
Be part of Empat, with clinical case support, operational help, and administrative support in your school placement.
Talk through student needs and complex cases with peers and clinical leadership. You have people to turn to.
Use tools for session planning, documentation, and progress tracking, and bring workload concerns to a team that listens.
Work with our product team to shape technology around real clinical needs - helping you, other SLPs, and the students you serve.
For parents and caregivers
We partner with schools and their clinicians to support each student’s individual needs, strengths, and goals. Families bring an essential perspective to that work.
Questions about school-based services for your child? Start with your child’s school or SLP. If Empat is part of your child’s school team or you have a general question, contact our team.