Graduate Training

Pre-Externships

The department of Speech-Language Pathology provides part-time, semester-long graduate pre-externships to gain experience in specialty areas, including:

• Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) Preschool
• Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Clinic
• Autism Diagnostic Clinic
• Concussion Management Clinic
• Head and Neck Oncology Clinic
• Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
• Parent Training
• Parkinson’s Disease Clinic

Acute Care Externship

Full-time graduate medical externships are offered in acute care to gain clinical experience in a wide-range of assessment and treatment opportunities related to speech, language, voice, dysphagia and cognition.

Students will have the opportunity to:

• Develop the knowledge and skills required to support hospitalized children and adults who have acquired deficits related to a trauma, require a tracheostomy and/or ventilator, have cancer of the head and neck or have experienced a neurological event, etc.
• Participate in instrumental swallowing exams including Modified Barium Swallow studies and Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing.
• Collaborate with members of the patient’s health care team, including physicians, nurses, dieticians, physical and occupational therapists, and respiratory therapists among others.
• Participate in interdisciplinary education encounters, such as nursing inservices, Speech-Language Pathology department journal club, and TheraChat, a monthly discussion about clinical topics pertinent to medical Speech Pathologists and multi-disciplinary professionals.