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SPA 345

Observation of Clinical Services

Catalog2026-2027
Credits3 units
LevelUpper Division
Average gradeA
Standard

Overview

Description

Observation and synthesis of clinical services.

Requirements

Prerequisites

SPA 201SPA 320SPA 340
Original catalog text

Prerequisites

Prerequisite(s): SPA 201; SPA 320; SPA 340.

Units

Lecture3

Catalog Details

Offering

Offered: Every Fall, Spring, and Summer

Terms

fall, spring, summer

Attributes

Standard

Learning Outcomes

  • demonstrate ability to meet ASHA’s requirement of 25 hours of observing assessment and intervention sessions.
  • demonstrate familiarity with UNR Speech and Hearing Clinic layout and clinic operations.
  • develop at a beginning level the skills of observing communication behaviors. e.g., judging social-pragmatic abilities, estimating speech intelligibility and factors negatively affecting intelligibility; identifying and transcribing articulation errors.
  • identify communication disorder categories based upon case summary information such as case history and client concerns, assessment results and recommendations, therapy goals and objectives; and informal observation impressions.
  • organize case information and informal observational notes according to a report format.
  • demonstrate familiarity with session designs, test administration, informal assessments, reinforcement strategies, various teaching strategies, means of data collection, behavior management strategies, and varieties of therapy materials.