Seminar Externship I

Catalog description

This seminar accompanies the initial externship placement, in which direct service hours for ASHA clock requirements are supervised by licensed, ASHA-certified Speech-Language Pathologists. This seminar provides students the opportunity to discuss the various aspects of their experience in their school placements, ethical issues that arise in educational settings, share case studies, exchange protocols, and identify and solve problems that arise in the effective treatment of clients both in educational and rehabilitation settings. This class places an emphasis on issues specific to the school system: educational and pedagogical techniques, interprofessional collaboration with teachers and administration, and working within the educational mandate and scope of practice. There will be an emphasis on considering the cultural, ethnic, and religious backgrounds of the clients and their impact on the interaction with student clinicians.