Blog 22 - Independent Component 2

 LITERAL

(a)“I, Sarah Morales, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 32 hours of work.”

(b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.

• Meredith-Skinder,Amy.Ph.D,CCC-SLP."Childhood Apraxia of speech: Differential Diagnosis & Treatment."PESI.2015.Seminar. 
• Barron,Sean, Temple Grandin, Raun Mehmed."Play Therapy."CMI.2015.Seminar.
• Collins,Shannon MA, CCC-SLP, Angela Sterling-Orth MS, CCC-SLP."Evidence-based iPad Interventions for Speech-Language & Special Education Services."PESI.2014.Seminar.
• Rogers,Gordy M.S, CCC-SLP."Beyond Traditional Articulation Therapy."CMI.2012.Seminar. 
• Siciliano,Linda B.A, CCC-SLP."Multi sensory Interventions for Speech, Languages and Early Literacy."PESI.2015.Seminar. 
• Morris,Rick O.D,P.A., FCOVD."Visual Processing Therapy."PESI.2013.Seminar.
• Yaruss,J. Scott, Ph.D, CCC-SLP ,ASHA Fellow."Practical Treatment Strategies for School-Age Children Who Stutter."Pesi.2010. Seminar

(c) Update your Independent Component 2 Log (which should be under your Senior Project Hours link)
Grading Criteria 

(d) Explain what you completed. 

• I watched 32 hours worth of continuing education seminars. These videos are watched by therapist every year and they must take post-seminar test and send them in to get graded to ensure that the therapist are keeping up with the continuing education.  These seminars are on updated information and new discoveries and continuously provide different perspectives so that the therapist never get rusty with their approach of helping a client.   

  

(e) Defend your work and explain the component's significance and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work. Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.   

Although I didn't take the test to get sent in, I did take the test to show that I followed along and paid attention to the seminar. I also took side notes and wrote down ideas as well.

 

*Below are pictures of the post-seminar test i had to take with* each seminar. This is the one for Childhood Apraxia of Speech.  

*Below are pictures of what the cd's look like* 

and a picture of me watching the seminar and filling out the test. 

(In the package)

(Me, watching the seminars)

*Below I tried to upload snippets of seminars but* blogger is really bad at loading videos.

(f)How did the component help you answer your EQ? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped. 

• The component helped defend the answers I already have as well as give me ideas of army third answer that I have been struggling with.  For example, during the seminar for Childhood Apraxia of Speech, the presenting SLP described how family/parent involvement helps motivate the client to try which gets a better outcome and faster progress. Another example is, for my answer three I could make it "Stay up to date with rtechincolgical advancements" and explain how the I-Pad has changed the way SlP's work with their client. How The I-pad is an "office in a box" and has all the SLP's speech materials as well as they schedule. The videos just help my general knowledge of speech expand as well as helping me target specific ares of my answers for my EQ. 

Blog 16 - Independent Component 2 Approval

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

• What I plan to do for my 30 hours is to do more mentorship/volunteer hours at My World Speech Therapy. 

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

• I will take notes of every speech session I attend and upload it to the log to amount to 30 hours. If I happen to be working with files or something other than observing, I will take notes of that as well. 

3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.

• This component will help me explore my topic more in-depth because I will be watching SLP's and SLPA's in their natural habitat of working with their clients. I will see interaction between parents and SLP's and I will see the interaction amongst the SLP'S. There will also be the benefit of experiencing the running of a private practice and seeing how to approach regional center and kaiser because they are the services that provide clients through insurance. 

4.  Post a log in your Senior Project Hours link and label it "Independent Component 2" log.

• Okie Dokie 

Blog 15 - Independent Component 1

       LITERAL

• (a) “I, Sarah Morales, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
• (b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component:
•    Sara Romo Miranda, and other employees at My World Speech Therapy were my biggest an only source in completing my independent component.
• (c) Link to my hours log: 

•  My Mentorship Log
•  (d) Explain what you've completed:
• During my 30 hours of mentorship I observed 30 hours of speech therapy sessions. I watched SLPA's with their clients of all ages and all diagnoses. I also answered phone calls and put away files, as well as pulling files apart and putting them into the history cabinet. 

·       INTERPRETIVE 

• Defend your work and explain its significance to your project and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   
• The significance of my independent component was watching my mentor do her thing. Watching her and other therapist read a clients goals and then try different games and techniques to reach those goals. These 30 hours also helped me see how the parents and therapist interact and the varying degree of parent interest. My independent component demonstrates 30 hours of week because in my log, I wrote down things I did for every hour of those 30 hours. Below are some pictures I took. I could take too many because of client privacy and some parents weren't comfortable with their child being photographed. 

APPLIED

• How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?
• This component helped me understand the foundation of my topic better because it let me see so many different ways that SLPA's help to ensure the success and progress of their clients. It helped me see the simplest techniques being used for 2 year olds to the more complicated techniques for the 15 year olds. I watched a lot of different sessions, which helped me view a plethora of approaches to speech and language. 

Blog 8 - Independent Component 1 Proposal

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

• I didn't know what I was going to do but I've decided to do 30 extra hours of mentorship. 

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

• I will be taking notes and typing out those notes into my log. I will also take pictures and videos. 

3.  Explain how what you will be doing will help you explore your topic in more depth.

• This will help me watch speech therapist in action and experience real sessions with clients of all ages. 

4.  Update your Senior Project Hours log.