Overview
Description
Observation and synthesis of clinical services.
Requirements
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.