What? So What? Now What?
A Brief Reflection of My Self-Designed Learning Experience at CCHMC
For my self-designed Learning Experience I chose to volunteer in the outpatient Speech-Language Pathology division of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Medical Center. During a typical day I would complete tasks including disinfecting the observation rooms, creating crafts for SLPs to use during sessions, sending out letters to parents about their child’s speech condition, and finally watching SLPs interact with their patients/clients with varying communication and speech disorders. I did this for the entire Spring Semester of 2014 for a few hours a week. I worked closely with other student volunteers and the volunteer coordinator Holly Finnegan. While there I definitely learned a lot more about the field that I will be going into.
I chose this experience so that I could witness what actually goes on in the day of a Speech-Language Pathologist. At first, I did think that I could get to work a little more with the children, but overall it met my expectations of the knowledge that I wanted to acquire from doing it. I was able to connect this experience to some of what I had heard from guest speakers in my Freshman CSD course.
This experience was meaningful to me in that I not only got to perform research through my observations, but I also got to help out in my community. It has definitely made me surer in the fact that I want to work with children in an outpatient setting. It was most helpful that I knew about the varying communication disorders that one can have. This allowed me to be a little more connected to what was going on during the sessions. The best new, transferable knowledge that I got was that there are so many different routes in this career field and that I have a lot to look forward to.
A Brief Reflection of My Self-Designed Learning Experience at CCHMC
For my self-designed Learning Experience I chose to volunteer in the outpatient Speech-Language Pathology division of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Medical Center. During a typical day I would complete tasks including disinfecting the observation rooms, creating crafts for SLPs to use during sessions, sending out letters to parents about their child’s speech condition, and finally watching SLPs interact with their patients/clients with varying communication and speech disorders. I did this for the entire Spring Semester of 2014 for a few hours a week. I worked closely with other student volunteers and the volunteer coordinator Holly Finnegan. While there I definitely learned a lot more about the field that I will be going into.
I chose this experience so that I could witness what actually goes on in the day of a Speech-Language Pathologist. At first, I did think that I could get to work a little more with the children, but overall it met my expectations of the knowledge that I wanted to acquire from doing it. I was able to connect this experience to some of what I had heard from guest speakers in my Freshman CSD course.
This experience was meaningful to me in that I not only got to perform research through my observations, but I also got to help out in my community. It has definitely made me surer in the fact that I want to work with children in an outpatient setting. It was most helpful that I knew about the varying communication disorders that one can have. This allowed me to be a little more connected to what was going on during the sessions. The best new, transferable knowledge that I got was that there are so many different routes in this career field and that I have a lot to look forward to.