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One Week Practicum
Observation of Therapy: At least eight hours of observation will be scheduled. Observations will include children at various stages of Auditory-Verbal development. Children utilizing hearing aids and cochlear implants will be included. You will have the opportunity to observe all our therapists to demonstrate for you the widest variety of therapy activities as well as our individual techniques and teaching styles.
Participation in Therapy: You will be involved in at least two therapy sessions where you will plan and implement at least one activity for each session. These activities will be videotaped and then critiqued with you.
A-V Lessons: You will have daily discussions with a Certified Auditory-Verbal Therapist. Discussion will include numerous Auditory-Verbal topics. The technical level of the discussion will be based upon your individual training and Auditory-Verbal experience.
Consultations: You will meet separately with our consulting social worker and sensory integration therapist.
A. The social worker will discuss with you issues related to families who have children with hearing impairments and any concerns you may bring up.
B. The sensory integration therapist will discuss with you how to evaluate children’s sensory issues, reasons to provide sensory integration therapy, and particular sensory dysfunctions most often seen in children with hearing impairments.
Teaching Parent: You will meet with the parent of a child who has completed AVC’s Auditory-Verbal program to discuss special issues related to parenting a child with special needs and your role in assisting the parent through the Auditory-Verbal process.
Audiology: You will observe Audiology testing sessions with our pediatric audiologists and will discuss with them what we require of our families from an audio logic standpoint, our rationale for routine testing, and any equipment questions you may have.
Eight Week Practicum
The Auditory-Verbal Practicum Site at the Auditory-Verbal Center offers graduate student interns an opportunity to gain university credit and clinical clock hours toward graduation in a totally Auditory-Verbal clinical setting. Those students wishing to specialize in providing Auditory-Verbal services will find the experience most beneficial.
Practicum experiences are planned in conjunction with the student’s university and are typically eight weeks in length. Goals and guidelines follow those delineated in the contract between the Center and the student’s university. During the eight weeks, students maintain an eight hour schedule daily at the Center. Students will gain hands-on experience in working with children between the ages of birth to seven. Students also have the opportunity to go offsite to observe mappings for children with cochlear implants and related therapies, such as sensory integration therapy or oral motor therapy. Students participate in every aspect of an Auditory-Verbal therapist’s job while at the Center, which includes but is not limited to writing lesson plans, parent training, sanitizing toys, gathering materials and putting them away, consulting with audiologists, round table clinical discussions, evaluations, the scoring of test instruments, and report writing. Students are given an outline and bibliographies with suggested readings to use in their training and will observe all the therapists at the Center in diagnostic and therapeutic sessions
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