Student clinician vs speech-language pathologist teacher

Differences between student clinician and speech-language pathologist teacher 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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Speech-language pathologist teacher example responsibilities.

• Treat children with speech, language and pragmatic issues, development of IEP's, and conducting speech/language evaluations.
• Develop individual and/or group activities according to therapy needs and IEP goals in a large, urban, elementary school.
• Provide detailed narrative evaluations and ongoing consultation of individual guidelines for dysphagia intervention and augmentative/alternative communication programs/systems.
• Programme & maintain high and low tech AAC devices independently; train other staff in the proper use.
• Home base therapy for adults following TBI and CVA.
• Provide detailed narrative evaluations and ongoing consultation of individual guidelines for dysphagia intervention and augmentative/alternative communication programs/systems.