For Community Clinical Educators working with UW SLP Graduate Students
Welcome and thank you for volunteering your time, effort, and wisdom to working with our students!
We offer this FREE CEU course that provides you with the basic information you need to support a UW SLP graduate student in the community.
- Please complete the training (linked below) and complete the survey provided at the end of the course for CE credit
- This course meets the requirements for professional education in Clinical Supervision as required by ASHA.
Course Details:
- Course available any time online!
- Content is 2 hours for 2 continuing education units
- This course was designed to efficiently "onboard" new clinical educators working at the University of Washington so you are ready to work with a graduate student
Learner Outcomes
After completing this course, participants will be able to:
- Describe University of Washington's curriculum components and articulate how they related to real-world practice.
- Identify ratings used in clinical evaluations.
- Provide methods to support graduate student clinicians' crtical thining, problem-solving, cultural competence, and professional skills.
- Explain expectations for learning and independence of graduate student clinicians across the quarter and academic year.
Speaker Bios:
Kate Krings M.S., CCC-SLP is an Associate Teaching Professor and joined the UW Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences in 2008. Prior to joining the faculty, she provided SLP services in the Seattle Public schools for preschool, elementary and high school students. She has a clinical interest in serving culturally-linguistically diverse, high-risk and underserved populations. She taught courses in adolescent and school age language disorders, pediatric speech sound disorders, and currently teaches public school speech-language pathology and audiology. She supervises pediatric speech and language evaluation and treatment practica in the UW Speech and Hearing Clinic. She is the public schools placement coordinator. She is the creator and coordinator of two special projects within the department. The first project, which she coordinates along with Dr. Amy Pace is the Partnership for Healthy Parenting. It is a collaboration with the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW). It is a partnership betwen the department and the Residential Parenting Program which is housed at WCCW. Her second special project is the Communication for Life program, which provides communication skill support for young adults with developmental disabilities as they transition out of the public schools and into adulthood.
Kelsey Leighton M.S., CCC-SLP is an Associate Teaching Professor and joined the UW Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences in 2012. Prior to joining the faculty, she provided SLP services for adults with neurogenic communication and swallowing disorders in acute care, inpatient rehab, outpatient rehab, and skilled nursing facility settings. She has served as a clinical educator in our clinic working with adults with neurogenic communication disorders. She currently teaches the first in the 2-course series of the Professional Seminar. She is the healthcare and community fieldwork placement coordinator.
Amy Rodda, Ph.D., CCC-SLP is the Director of Clinical Education and an Associate Teaching Professor and joined the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences om 2018. She has worked in a variety of settings, including public schools, birth-3 services, and private clinics. Clinically, Dr. Rodda specializes in play-based therapy, increasing social communication, and enhancing the functional communication skills of children with a broad range of communication strengths and challenges. She is a certified Early Start Denver Model provider and has completed training on the Hanen It Takes Two to Talk parent coaching program. Her research interests include understanding and supporting peer relationships and friendships of children with autism spectrum disorders. Dr. Rodda currently supervises graduate clinicians in the UW Speech and Hearing Clinic, teaches undergraduate, post-baccalaureate, and graduate courses, facilitates the Leslie Jeanne Berns Support Group for families of children with communication disorders, and mentors undergraduate research.
Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Rodda, Ms. Krings, and Ms. Leighton receive a salary from the University of Washington. There are no non-financial disclosures.
Time-Ordered Agenda:
- Introduction to or review of MS curriculum (30 minutes)
- Learning expectations for 2nd year MS students (45 minutes)
- Tracking clinical experiences (15 minutes)
- Describing student progress (15 minutes)
- FAQs and survey information (15 minutes)
Assessment of Learner Outcomes
In order to demonstrate completion of the workshop content, all attendees must complete a self-reflection (included in the course evaluation) that answers the following questions:
- List 2 things you learned about the UW's curriculum/structure in relation to clinical education in the 2nd year.
- Indicate the name of the system we use at UW for tracking student progress and clinical hours.
- Provide 2-3 brief sentences on how you would expect student performance to look different in Autumn quarter (at the beginning of their program) versus Spring/Summer quarter (at the end of their program).
- Write one method or resource you plan to use with a graduate student clinician you are currently supervising or plan to supervise. Briefly describe how/why you use this resource (1-3 sentences).
If participants require disability accommodations to access course materials, please reach out to Amy Rodda: amyrodda@uw.edu
