Supervising Student Interns: The Good, Bad and Ugly

SLP

Remember when you were in graduate school? You knew in order to graduate, you had to complete two internships. One should be more school based, and the other would be more medical based. Many students, programs and universities struggle to find supervisors for their students. Furthermore, Speech and Language Pathologists likely have no training in successfully preparing a student intern for post-graduate success. This course is designed to reignite your desire to help future generations of Speech and Language Pathologists. You will learn ways to find student interns, how to get acclimated with an intern starting with you, strategies for successfully transferring the responsibilities to the intern and how to conclude the experience.

Presenters

Lindsay Arbutina
MA CCC-SLP
Lindsay is a school-based Speech and Language Pathologist. She started out preparing to become a teacher, then she realized that was not the path for her. Lindsay graduated with her Bachelors in Elementary Education when she was 9 months pregnant. Three months later, she started taking pre-requisite courses for communication sciences and disorders. She graduated with her Masters of Speech and Language Pathology with a six-month-old. Lindsay started her career at an elementary school, and while she loved most of what she did, she quickly reached her breaking point. Just when she was developing her five-year plan to get out of that school and start a private practice, an opening became available in her small school district. She is now happily employed and enjoys sharing the good, bad and ugly with the student interns she takes from a local university.

Learning Objectives

Identify resources to obtain an intern
Explain how to begin the process and get acclimated with an intern
Describe how to systematically transfer responsibility
Discuss how to conclude the externship experience

Agenda

5 minutes	Introduction, disclosure statements, objectives
10 minutes	How to obtain an intern
15 minutes	Getting started/acclimated with an intern
15 minutes	Systematically transferring responsibility
15 minutes	Concluding your externship experience

Disclosures

Speakers - Financial	Lindsay is receiving compensation for this course
Speakers - Nonfinancial	Lindsay has no non-financial relationships to disclose.
Speakers - Content	Lindsay has no additional content information to disclose.
Course - Financial Support & In Kind	This course is being sponsored by SLP Toolkit.

ASHA

This course is offered for 0.1 ASHA CEUs, Introductory Level, Professional Area