Blog 13 - 10 Hour Mentorship Check-in

(2 therapist with sibling clients)

1.   Where are you doing your mentorship?

• I am doing my mentorship at My World Speech Therapy in West Covina. 

2.   Who is your contact?  What makes this person an expert?

• My contact is my mentor Sara Romo. What makes her an expert is that she is a licensed  speech therapist with a Masters Degree in the Sciences and Communicative Disorders.

3.   How many  hours have you done during the school year? (Summer Mentorship Hours and Mentorship Hours should be reflected separately in your Senior Project Hours log located on the right hand side of your blog).

• I've done 45 hours of mentorship. I don't have them reflected in my log though, because I've been taking notes and just haven't been updating the log. 

4.   Succinctly summarize what you did, how well you and your mentor worked together, and how you plan to complete the remaining hours.

• For the most part, I've been sitting in on sessions and observing the therapist work with their clients. Occasionally the therapist will ask me to interact with the client, tell me to ask the client a question or play a game with the client. Ive also been made to put together files for incoming clients and to pull apart and store files for clients that have finished their sessions. I also answer phone calls, well, I've practiced answering phone calls about 4 times but my voice changes and gets weird so I told them I preferred not to do that anymore. My mentor and I have a very good relationship. We can communicate well and we make sure that we alway know what is going on with each other. I have observed many other therapist and my relationship with them is a very good one as well. I plan to complete the remaining hours by continuing what I have been doing, observing, taking notes, filing, and doing whatever else will be asked of me at my mentorship.