Seminar Clinic (Internship)

Catalog description

Clinical procedures are introduced, including planning and providing developmentally appropriate therapy sessions, maintaining records, and completing reports. Knowledge regarding various disorders is applied to the treatment of individuals across the lifespan. Modification of instructional methods in response to behavioral issues are discussed. School-based, medical, home-based and other settings will be discussed, with emphasis on responsibilities of SLPs in these various settings. School-based techniques and curriculum-based content are discussed, including pull-out and push-in types of sessions, IEPs, RTI, collaboration with staff, and various pedagogical approaches. Supervision is provided by licensed, ASHA certified Speech-Language Pathologists, with students’ direct treatment hours recorded and applied as per ASHA requirements. In seminar course meetings and throughout clinical internship participation with direct client interaction, an inclusive learning environment with an emphasis on the inherent dignity of everyone will be emphasized and practiced, with principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) embedded as foundational to clinical education and practice. Dimensions of diversity can include race, age, gender identity, expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity, national origin, cognitive and physical ability, education, learning ability, socioeconomic class, income, faith and/or non-faith beliefs, primary and/or second language, family or marital status, military service, and other individual differences.