Externship: Adult

Catalog description

Student clinicians will engage in advanced clinical practice under supervision of externship supervisors in a setting where adult clients are served (e.g., medical center, home health care agency, skilled nursing facility, outpatient rehabilitation clinic; education settings that serve young adults; settings in which at least 50% of the typical caseload includes adults over the age of 18). Students will participate actively in all aspects of service delivery and will accrue at least 100 direct clinical contact hours. They will actively engage with their site mentors to learn about documentation, intervention, diagnostics, referrals, collaboration, and other setting-specific aspects of the practice of speech-language pathology. Students will reflect on their clinical performance and set personal future vocational goals.