Student clinician vs language pathologist

Differences between student clinician and language pathologist duties and responsibilities

Student clinician example responsibilities.

• Provide group base intervention for elementary age students who use AAC, with and without communication disorders
• Deliver speech therapy in individual and group settings; focuse on improving overall functional communication in patients with non-fluent aphasia.
• Evaluate patients in the acute care setting for communication disorders, develop and implement therapy for acute care and rehabilitation patients.
• Provide speech and language intervention for a varying population with stuttering, receptive-expressive language delay, aphasia, and articulation deficits.
• Addressed concerns such as articulation, augmentative alternative communication, autism-spectrum disorders, pragmatic issues, expressive and receptive language issues.
• Provide AAC training utilizing communications book.
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Language pathologist example responsibilities.

• Manage all relate paperwork including lesson planning for SLP-assistants and Medicaid reimbursement.
• Provide evaluation and remediation of various forms of communication disorders for preschool and school-age population in an outpatient rehabilitation clinic.
• Assess appropriate AAC device for student use, and program device for each student's specific needs.
• Apply behavior analysis and discrete trial training are used to train the children on the AAC devices.
• Evaluate and treat adults with cognitive dysfunction, swallowing disorders, apraxia and aphasia in long term care.
• Review all daily notes submit by SLP assistants and provide feedback for written documentation and feedback for direct therapy services.
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