PRESENTED BY: KATIE STAAK APRIL 3,2011 DR. YANG CEPD D Educational Psychology Application: “Speech Therapy”

Service Learning Details Location:  University of West Georgia Comprehensive Community Clinic (UWG CCC)  Located in Education Center Rationale:  The clinic serves to provide speech and hearing services to individuals with communication disorders  SLP graduate students administer therapy in a supervised clinic room

Client Details 9 year-old Caucasian male Home-schooled Diagnosed with  Language delay  Articulation disorder  Mild Intellectual Disability Attended UWG CCC since 2009 Timing of treatment:  Therapy was administered Tuesday and Thursday from 2-2:45  14 sessions= 10 hours

Therapy Goals 1. JB will improve overall intelligibility. 2. JB will improve expressive language skills through new vocabulary acquisition. 1. JB will produce /ð/ and θ/ in a sentence with 80% accuracy given clinician verbal model. 2. JB will produce vowelized /r/ in words with 80% accuracy given clinician verbal model. 3. JB will recite the definition for each 5 grade-level vocabulary words with 90% accuracy given clinician model. 4. JB will use 5 grade level vocabulary words in a sentence with a subject, predicate and adjective with 90% accuracy given clinician model. 5. JB will produce 5 antonyms and 5 synonyms for each grade level vocabulary word with 80% accuracy given the clinician model. Long Term Goals Short Term Goals

Procedures in Therapy AB will participate in age-appropriate activities to elicit expressive language skills through pointing, gesturing and imitating sounds. The activities used will be goal-centered to allow for data to be collected. Therapy considerations:  Games not regularly used  AB exhibits behavior and attention issues

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Reflective Teaching Recorded sessions  Use of flip-cams Reflective Journal  SOAP notes Combination of artistic/creativity mind with a clinical/scientific mind

Learning Theories Operant conditioning  Positive reinforcement: stress-ball use Learning theories  Difficulty relating them to disordered children Metacognition  Awareness of learning at 9 years-old

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