My Top 10 Tips for Surviving Clinic
1. Be prepared to feel like you don’t know what you are
doing… because really, you don’t know what you are doing. You are going to make
mistakes and that’s okay.
2. This needs to be said again: be okay with #1. Or at least know that you will be okay
with #1. We’ve all been there.
And all the C.E.s (clinical educators) have tissues in their
offices for emotional breakdowns. Again, we’ve all been there.
3. Research your client’s communication impairment(s) and
learn all you can about the etiology, assessment and treatment of their
disorder(s). A good place to start is joining speechpathology.com. It is $49
for students for a year membership and it has a wealth of information.
(It’s also a great place to brush up on information from classes you haven’t
had in a while or that too briefly covered a topic area. This site can help when you are preparing
for your internships or even the praxis. I will definitely be using it for both
my internship interviews and praxis study).
