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ASHA Practicum Guidelines
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- · Clinical observation
- · Clinical practicum
- o Supervision requirements
- o Number of clinical clock hours required
- o What to count as clock hours
- o Payment for services
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ASHA Practicum Requirements
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- Apply/expand solid progressive academic foundation
- Enthusiasm, dedication, and hard work
- Communication with variety of partners
- Conscientious and reliable
- Organize/manage time
- Flexible and non-judgmental
- Accept and adapt quickly to change
- Progressive participation
- Committed to highest level of service delivery
- Understand and integrate experiences
- Writing
- Oral Communication
- Personal Characteristics
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Explain Progressive participation
It means that you must be continually improving
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Explain the writing requirements
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- Accurate and precise writing
- Grammatically correct sentences
- Open to variety documentation formats
- Narrative
- Universal abbreviations
- Often depends on the site
- Organize thoughts
- Free of spelling errors
- Reader/user friendly - Think about you audience
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Explain the Oral Communication Requirements.
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- Effective communication partners of varied educational, socioeconomic, and cultural
- backgrounds
- Speak clearly with using appropriate prosodic features of speech
- Adjust to your partner/audience
- (simple/advanced/technical vocabulary, brief/complex content)
- Clearly and concisely articulate information
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Explain the Personal Characteristics that are required.
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- Responsible behavior (all aspects of clinical practicum (preparation, sessions, documentation, peers/supervisors/staff, timelines of completion, well prepared, organized
- Establish priorities
- Maintain professional boundaries
- Develop understanding of external and internal factors influencing both client and
- clinician behaviors (strengths/weakness, economics, family dynamics/living
- situations, support system, etc.)
- Work toward systematic progress for independence
- Self evaluate and implement modifications
- Use supervisor/peer evaluations to modify as needed
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Responsibilities of the Student
- · Honor Code of Ethics
- · Knowledge/understanding of Scope of Practice and Preferred Practice Standards
- · Maintain client confidentiality
- · Respect personal and cultural aspects
- · Prepare for meetings/sessions
- · Select appropriate materials, equipment, diagnostic instruments
- · Write observable and measurable goals and objectives
- · Be prompt/timely
- · Write concisely/precisely without errors
- · Maintain accurate records
- · Utilize your knowledge base (academic and clinical) and then apply
- · Research
- · ASK QUESTIONS
- · Ongoing self evaluation
- · Attend session as scheduled
- · Be professional
- · Maintain an official clinical clock hour record
- · Maintain good clinical relationships with peers and supervisors
- · ENJOY…enjoy…enjoy
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Responsibilities of the Supervisors
- Provide guidelines – 50% supervision during assessment, 25% supervision during
- intervention
- Provide feedback
- Provide assistance, demonstrations, description, modeling
- Critique
- Encourage and support
- Demand/require professionalism increasing independence
- Expect/require inquiry and research
- EBP – we have fallen far short on this and we need to take it upon ourselves to make this
- better
- Establish and maintain effective working condition
- Assist in development of clinical goals/objectives
- Assist in development/refinement of assessment skills
- Assist in development/ refinement of clinical management
- Demonstrate and participate in clinical process
- Assist in observing/analyzing assessment and treatment
- Assist in development/maintenance of clinical and supervisory records
- Interacting relative to planning, executing, and analyzing conferences
- Assist in evaluation of clinical performance
- Assist in developing verbal reporting, writing, and editing skills
- Share information relative to ethical, legal, regulatory and reimbursement aspects
- Model/facilitate professional conduct
- Demonstrate research skills
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Client / Family Rapport
Effective Communication Includes
- Establishing/outlining information to be shared and anticipating questions/comments; sharing with
- supervisors/peers as appropriate
- Provide brief overview to client/family
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- Provide accurate information
- Stick to the “knowns” and do not make promises/false hope
- Discuss a program of intervention (trip) including its sequence (road map)
- Allow time for inquiry (be quiet)
- Answer question and provide the variable of effective treatment and diagnosis
- Engage the family in observation and empower through participation in treatment
- Also ask about how things are going outside of therapy
- Review the accomplishments, regressions, plateau, and need for modifications (daily, weekly, monthly, full moons, growth spurts, etc)
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