Becoming a Speech Language Pathologist

Video Transcript

"Once you graduate, you would once you find a job with a supervisor, you will have thirty six weeks. We'll say nine months where you work under a supervisor. I thinks that the supervisor should really be an important part especially if it's your first nine months out. If you have a good supervisor then you're going to have a great start off because you learn so much more in real life watching, participating with the patient yourself to kind of see what works, what doesn't work. That's where you kind of learn who I can doesn't have to be exactly like this because that's not really how they're responding but if we get it this way just a little bit, there it is you know that's where the patient likes. That's how they respond but there is that nine months of supervision. It's called your clinical fellowship year after you have graduated with your Masters and there's also standardized test that you take and have to pass and then you have these nine months and then your supervisor you know complete the paperwork at the end of those nine months and send it off and that is when you will receive from ASHA your Cs your Clinical Certificate of Competence and that's what you want to hold on to and it does. It means you've been a supervisor but like I said it's you're always learning and depending on what population whether you're with children, whether you're with geriatrics, whether you're with traumatic brain injury, it's all, all so different and should a wild, wide range but it's so interesting. All you want to do is help them. It's a very rewarding. It really is."