Case Studies
De-identified clinical scenarios showing how SLPs integrate LLMs into actual workflows: what worked, what didn't, and what to watch for.
Evaluation Season: Drafting Present Levels for Eight New Referrals
A school-based SLP uses an LLM to organize evaluation data and draft present levels during a high-volume referral period, cutting report writing time by 40%.
Hard Boundaries: Structuring MBSS Reports Without Clinical Overreach
An acute care SLP develops a workflow with explicit constraints after an LLM repeatedly generates unsolicited diet-level recommendations in instrumental swallowing evaluation reports.
Beyond Monolingual Norms: Organizing a Bilingual Assessment Without Pathologizing Difference
A school SLP assessing a bilingual Spanish-English child catches an LLM defaulting to English-only norms and pathologizing typical bilingual language features.
Skilled Language: Batch-Writing SNF Progress Notes That Justify Continued Services
An SNF SLP develops a prompt template that produces weekly progress notes with the functional outcome measures and skilled-service justification required for Medicare reimbursement.
From Vague Praise to Actionable Feedback: AI-Assisted Clinical Supervision
A clinical supervisor uses an LLM to draft specific, evidence-linked feedback for graduate student clinicians, moving beyond generic encouragement to targeted skill development.