Blog 14 - Third Interview Preparation

1.  Who do you plan to interview?  What is this person's area of expertise?

• I plan to interview Alejandra Miranda. She is a speech therapist that works under Sara Romo. This means that Alejandra is an SLPA, Speech-Language Pathologist Assistant, and is working on receiving her Master's Degree in Sciences and Communicative Disorders. 

2.  Verify that you have called your interviewee to schedule an interview.  What is the date and time of the interview? 

• The date of my interview if 3 Feb. 2016. The time is still to be determined. 

3.  Phrase an open-ended question that will help you find research resources that would help to answer the EQ.

• While receiving your education to become a speech therapist, what kind of reading material did you, and have you, encounter that really spoke to you and have helped you make decisions you believe to be in the best interest of the patient? 

4.  Phrase an open-ended question that will help you think about other useful activities you might do to help you answer the EQ (IC2, possible experts to talk to, etc).

• While you've been a practicing SLPA, and even before while you were getting your primary education, did you have any mentors or professors or people of that sort that really helped you move along? Do you still keep in contact with these people? 

5.  Phrase two open-ended questions that help you to understand your interviewee's perspective on an aspect of your EQ. 

• How much of a patients progress in therapy do you believe falls fully on the therapist's shoulders? 
• Do you think that there is a difference of importance in goals for the patient or, you believe that each goal deserves the same amount of time and effort?