SPPA 2071 - Clinic Observation

This course provides students with supervised clinical observation of a graduate clinician providing speech-language-hearing services for an individual who demonstrates a communication disorder, delay or difference. Each student will be assigned to observe one therapy client for the semester, with two 50-minute therapy sessions held each week of the clinical semester. Over the course of the semester, the student will observe at least 15 hours of treatment for a communication disorder, delay or difference. At the end of this semester of observation each student should have accumulated the 25 observation hours required for professional certification of a speech-language pathologist or audiologist by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). Each student should have earned 10 hours in SPPA 2070.

Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: SPPA 2030, SPPA 2040, SPPA 2041, and SPPA 2070; with a minimum grade of “C” required in all prerequisites.

Credits: 2 hours

Restrictions: Restricted to majors in Speech Pathology and Audiology.