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Outreach News 2007

Clinic Registration

Greetings Outreach Students, I just emailed you with an email regarding clinic registration. Please contact me right away if you did not receive that email. Thanks.

 

Call Numbers

Registration is now available for you for Spring 08. Please register ASAP. Thanks. The courses have been built in Banner and the students can start registering. Here they are.

CRN	Dept	Crs.#	Sec	Title	Instructor	Min Credits	Max Credits
19716	COMD	6100	LS1	Clinic Practicum SLP	Bingham, Chad	1	4
19717	COMD	6230	LS1	Intro Research COMD	Blair, James	3	3
19718	COMD	6300	LS1	Externship in SLP	Bingham, Chad	1	12
19722	COMD	6900	LS1	Independent Study	Child, Dee	1	1

 

If the students have any problems registering themselves, please have them contact me (kathyc@ext.usu.edu) or our registration folks and we can get them in.

Note: Please don’t register for COMD 6300 if you are not going to be completing an externship (adult hours) Spring semester. If you registered for COMD 6300 this semester (Fall) and didn’t complete an externship, please let me know so that I can give you an “I” until that work is completed and you have a grade for it. If you registered for it this semester and didn’t do any externship, and will be doing an externship next semester, then DON’T register for it again (I’ll change the “I” to a grade next semester). I hope all this makes sense, if not, let me know. Chad (chad.bingham@usu.edu)

 

# of Credits

Just a reminder of the # of credits you should register for...
Outreach Classes for Checklist
Spring - Year 2
CD 6100 Clinic (2 credits)
COMD 6900 Culminating Presentation (1 credit)
COMD 6230 Research (3 credit)
COMD 6300 Clinic Externship (2 credits)
8 Total credits

When you register online for a variable credit course I think 1 credit shows up as the default. Make sure you change that to the number of credits listed above. Thanks.

Blackboard

Students, if you have a grade posted for a particular assignment already, you do not need to submit again to tell Brynne it is there.

Background Check

Hi Outreach Graduate Students, If you have never received any written verification that your background check was approved you can email Shanna (shanna.avila@usu.edu) in our front office and she can look up the date it was approved in the College of Education Teacher Education Database. She'll email the date to you and you can submit that email to complete that item on the checklist.

 

Graduation Checklist

Greetings Outreach Students! Please have all checklist items through List C (the third list) completed by the end of this semester. Thanks.

Final Grading Information

Hi Outreach Students,
I sent the following message to all of your supervisors. Please do me the favor of passing this information on to them just to reinforce it in their minds.
Thanks, Chad

Dear Outreach Supervisors,
As November is winding down, it's time again to get ready to complete a final evaluation on your Outreach students. I will need an evaluation completed for each student prior to December 7. It is very important that you also assign a letter grade to the student for the semester. There isn't anywhere on the grading form to do this, so please put the letter grade in the "comments" section at the bottom of the grading form so that I know which grade to submit for the semester.

We also have run into a little problem with the grading server. We have now updated the program so that it will run on Firefox and other web browsers. When the update was installed, it also messed up all of the passwords for the accounts. So, I will be going in today to change the passwords for your username. I will set the password to "outreach" and you will be prompted to change your password when you log in to the system.

Again, the URL for the grading program is https://comdlabserver.comd.usu.edu I sincerely appreciate your efforts in supervising our graduate students. Please let me know if you run in to any difficulties accessing the grading server, either through email or phone.

Thanks,
Chad Bingham
Outreach Clinical Coordinator
(435) 797-1377

Scholarship Opportunity for Grad Students

The Graduate Student Senate is excited to be offering scholarships again this year! Despite earlier problems with funding, Sydney Peterson and the President's office really came through for graduate students and made this possible.

We have funding to give twenty scholarships of $4,000 to qualified graduate students. We learned a lot from our experience giving the awards last year and have made a lot of changes to the process. Below you will find the application and the FAQs for the scholarship. The documents will also be available through the GSS website - http://www.usu.edu/usugss/ , as well as complete information about the decision process and rules the GSS follows in handling the applications. Feel free to contact me, your GSS Department Representative, or your GSS College Senator if you have any questions. If you're unsure about who your GSS representatives are, please contact me and I will get you that information.

-- Jeri Brunson
ASUSU Graduate Studies VP
Graduate Student Senate President
Contact: 797-1736
Office: TSC 318

Download application in .pdf format.

Download Frequently Asked Questions in .pdf format.

 

Spring Semester

Greetings Outreach Students! Here is a bit of information regarding Spring Semester...

Registration: I will notify you when you can register. It will likely be within a week or so and the deadline will be December 14. Tuition will be very close to $1962.42.

Summer classes will be held during the week of June 9. Details will follow regarding the specific times.

 

Summer On Campus

Outreach Students: The summer week for being on campus will be June 9 - 13. Classes will most likely run from 8:00 a.m. To 5:00 p.m. You will be getting more specific information as we get closer.

Summer Semester Classes

Hi Outreach students, I hope you're finding a little time to enjoy this beautiful Fall day! I'm writing today about summer semester classes. You may recall the posting in August 27.

As a follow up:
I met with Professor Littledike and Professor Manuel-Dupont this afternoon and we have made the following decision...

All outreach students will come to campus this summer for one week to complete the two remaining classes. Classes will run from about 8:00 a.m. to about 6:00 p.m. with breaks during the day. We feel that it will be much more effective for you to come to campus for one week rather than participating in classes at your own computers for approximately nine hours a day during that same time period and that you will have far fewer distractions.

This schedule will require a major effort from the two professors teaching the courses to design them in a way that will fit into one week, but they are willing to make the adjustments so you will have more time to complete your clinic hours during the rest of the summer. I remind you that the plan has always been that you would finish your program at the END of the summer. We hope to be able to help you do so by completing the courses early enough that you can complete the other clinical requirements by August.

We will include a culminating dinner/party during the week of classes and will also give you one last student rate for our summer seminars if you decide you want to participate in them. Depending on when the next Outreach cohort begins, we may have a "passing of the torch" ceremony as well. We now are in the process of determining the best week to have these classes. We have to schedule around a COMD Mexico humanitarian aid trip and those dates are not yet solid.

So, please provide me with the following information ASAP:
When is your last day you HAVE to be in the schools in May?
Will you have all your clinic hours completed when you come to class this summer (including adult hours)?
If you had a preference (no guarantee) which of the following weeks would you choose to come to campus - last week of May, first week of June, second week of June?

Thanks.

 

Cancelled Assignment

Greetings Outreach Students, I have removed the ASHA Academic Progress Report from the checklist of items in the Blackboard class. You will not need to complete that assignment.

 

Case Study Topics

Greetings Outreach Students! Could you let me know if you have contacted your culminating presentation committee chair yet? Also, please let me know the topic of your case study so I can shift committee members (not chairs) around the best I can to have informed committee members for your topic. Thanks.

Outreach Classes for Checklist

Spring - Year 2
CD 6100 Clinic (2 credits)
COMD 6900 Culminating Presentation (1 credit)
COMD 6230 Research (3 credit)
COMD 6300 Clinic Externship (2 credits)
8 Total credits

Summer 3 - Year 2
COMD 6210 Bilingual/Bidialectal (2 credits)
COMD 6050 Pro Practice (1 credit)
COMD 6300 Clinic Externship (6 credits)
9 Total credits

 

Correction

Greetings Outreach Students! Dr. Blair’s research class will also be held on March 20. Thanks.

 

Spring Semester

Greetings Everyone!

I hope you're able to enjoy this BEAUTIFUL weather a bit as you cruise along through your graduate school program.

As you know, during Spring Semester you will have the research class from Dr. Blair. He will have you who are within about a 30 mile radius meet on campus and the rest of you meet at your own computers or in groups.

The dates will be:
Jan 10, 17, 24, 31
Feb 7, 14, 21, 28
March 6, (not 13), 27
April 3, 10

Class times will be from 6 - 9 p.m.
Tuition for next semester will be about the same as this current semester. Textbook: Handbook of Evidence Based Practices in Communication Disorders, Åuthor - Dollaghan, ISBN - 978-1-55766-870-7.
The text will be available through the bookstore or you can get it anywhere else you'd like. It was just barely ordered so it won't be in the bookstore for a few weeks probably. Please have it in hand for the first night of class.

Dr. Blair will give you additional information regarding what is needed for the first night of class.

The graduate student checklist in Blackboard is up and working now and some of you have submitted some of your assignments. I've asked the staff assistants in the main office to go through your graduate student files and record the items that you have already submitted in previous semesters into the Blackboard checklist grade book.

Brynne will be tracking all the assignments that you turn in (or have already turned in) through Blackboard and she'll record your scores in the grade book as well. So, within the next couple of days you'll be able to look at your grade book (called "MY GRADES") and see everything that has been checked off for you. Please go to work on the remaining items right away. You should have everything done on the checklists through "Do These During The Second Semester of Graduate School" by the end of the semester. So, in "My Grades" you should have all the assignments done that start with the letters A, B, and C by the end of the semester. Thanks!!!

 

Presentation Updates

Hi Outreach Students,

You should have just received an email with an attachment of a PowerPoint presentation that one of our last year's SLP students presented in her culminating presentation. If you did not receive the email please email me immediately with your current email address so we can get this information to you. Thanks.

Also, as I stated in your email... I am still waiting on final approval from a few of the committee chairs and then I'll send the list telling you who your chair will be. As soon as you receive the list you can start contacting him/her with your ideas, tentative case, tentative plan, etc. You MUST be prepared with your tentative plans and ideas. Do not contact your chair expecting to have him/her tell you what type of a case to present. You need to decide and then contact your chair who can help you refine your ideas if needed and give you feedback and additional suggestions. Remember, this is YOUR presentation and you plan, develop, prepare and present it. I'm sure you'll do great! Thanks.

 

T.H. Bell Scholarship Update

SLP Graduate Students: If you are interested in applying for the T.H. Bell Scholarship for THIS SEMESTER and the rest of the year you should contact Amy in the Dean's Office at 797 5831 right away. This scholarship requires that you work for one year in Utah's schools after you complete your masters degree for every year you receive the scholarship.

 

Changes to the Grad School

We have had a few new and improved changes at the Graduate School that we would like to make you aware of. First of all, we have a new website. It is now www.usu.edu/graduateschool (instead of www.usu.edu/gradsch ). Our online application can be found there. We do not accept paper applications at all anymore.

Our letters of recommendation are now electronic as well. The student gives us their recommender’s e-mail addresses. We send a form directly to the recommender, and they send it directly back to us. Please do not give out paper copies of the recommendation forms.

We do not have our gradsch@cc.usu.edu account anymore. Please direct students with questions to our website. There is a form they can fill out that will be sent to the direct contact person in our office, so that the student’s question does not have to be forwarded to a lot of people before it can get answered.

Here are a few reminders: we only need one copy of each transcript sent, our application fee is $55 for both International and Domestic students, and all students fill out the same application.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns. Thank you!! Jennifer Perry
School of Graduate Studies
Utah State University
435-797-5978
jen.perry@usu.edu

 

Tenative Graduate Committees

Based upon your recommendations, I have put together tentative graduate committees for each of you. I am clearing this with the SLP faculty tomorrow in a meeting and then I will send you information regarding your committee chairs.

 

Downloads

You will need to have consent forms signed by parent/guardian before you can start preparing your culminating presentations. We have the forms here and also on the Blackboard checklist. Since you still cannot access the checklist (currently at the College of Education approval level) I just revised the forms slightly and sent them to be posted in the Outreach News on the website. You should be able to access them there later today or tomorrow.

There are three forms: one information sheet for the principal, one information sheet for the parent/guardian, and the consent form. Once you have the forms signed you MUST make a copy and send the originals to me. I'll have them put in your student files. Thanks.

The following documents are available for download in .doc format:

Principal Approval
Presentation Description Letter
Consent for Electronic Recording and Presentation

Blackboard Maintenance

Every Sunday Morning from 2:00 AM to approximately 10:00 AM is the weekly Blackboard Maintenance window. During that time, the Blackboard server is unavailable. This Sunday a patch will be installed that will allow Java 1.6 to be validated with Blackboard and fix the problem we are having with chat. Once the server comes back online FACT staff will be testing the system.

 

December 2007 Commencement Dates

The Graduate Commencement and Hooding Ceremony will be held on Friday, December 14, at 1:30pm. It will be in the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum.

Download Fall 2007 deadlines for Commencement.

 

Party: All COMD-DE Faculty/Staff/Students

When: September 4th (Tuesday) from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Where: Dee Child's house in Hyde Park (10 minute drive from campus) - directions and map will be available at the main office in the COMD-DE Department.

Details: 6:00 - 7:00 Visit & Dinner: veggie and beef burgers, chips, soft drinks, etc. 7:00 - 8:00: Annual Faculty & Staff versus Students Volleyball tournament. Volleyball teams need fans so if you don't play please plan to cheer on your favorite team.

Bring: yourself, significant others if you'd like, kids, no pets please, blanket or lawn chairs, jacket.

Please sign up on the sign-up sheets so we'll know how much food to get.

Plans for Outreach

Hey Outreach Students,
We met as an SLP faculty last week for two days and made several important decisions. I will share the items that pertain to you.

1. Summer Schedule 2008: We have decided to try to find other locations for the two summer classes so you will not have to attend class on campus next summer. However, this is just tentative at this point until the professors who teach those courses give us their options for other times to teach them. Stay tuned. If you do not have classes next summer you will be expected to complete ALL of your clinical clock hours, including the adult hours, between now and the end of summer semester so that you will be able to complete your degree by the end of summer semester. There will not be an adult summer clinic on campus next summer.

2. Culminating Presentations (Case Studies): Your presentations will be made during Spring Semester. The tentative dates are March 24 - 28 and May 5 - 9. You will be assigned a date and time and committee in a few weeks. For now, please review the instructions you have received regarding your presentation and I will update you with additional information soon. It is important to start deciding on a type of case you will present. Some of you have already submitted requests for committee chairs and have given me you selection of case. For those who have not done so, please select your case type right away and email that information to me.

Thanks.

Class on Monday

Greetings Outreach Students.
You need to send an email to Vicki Simonsmeier immediately to let her if you are or are not registered for her class so she can get you you information regarding the class. vicki.simonsmeier@usu.edu
Thanks.

 

Registration

Greetings Outreach Students, Here are the CRN#s for your classes this Fall Semester. Please remember to register for 3 credits of 6100 and 1 credit of 6300. Thanks.

48558 COMD 6100 1 - 4 Chad Bingham Clinic
48560 COMD 6140 3 Vicki Simonsmeier Ped Motor
48561 COMD 6300 1 - 12 Chad Bingham Clinic

Clinical Grades

Hi Everyone, Congratulations on finishing another summer! Several of you registered for clinic this summer and I am in need of grades as soon as possible. I need clinical grades for the following people:
N. B.
A. K.
B. B. (If it's coming from Prof. Gantz, don't worry about it).
J. F. (If it's coming from Prof. Gantz, don't worry about it).
K. K.
R. L.
A. P.
M. S.

I have grades for the following students:
J. B.
J. B.
S. S.
L. SL
L. S.
J. A.
K. M.
S. S.
A. V.

If I don't hear from you shortly, I will submit grades of Incomplete until I can get the grades turned in. If you registered, but didn't complete any clinical hours, please let me know that as well. Thanks, Prof. Bingham

Outreach Tuition for Fall Semester

Greetings Everyone. Congratulations on completing a BIG semester! I hope you are enjoying a bit of a break before starting back into your schools.

Fall Semester classes will be as follows:
COMD 6100 Clinic (3 credits)
COMD 6300 Clinic (1 credit)
COMD 6140 Pediatric Motor/Dysphagia (3 credits)
Total: 7 credits

You will not be registering for COMD 6900 (Culminating Presentation) this semester, even though many of you will be doing your presentations this semester. We will have you all register for the class Spring semester so you will all be getting grades the same semester.

You can register for Fall Semester immediately if you'd like but the number of credits for clinic are currently listed as "1" instead of being variable so they are being adjusted in the Banner system right now. I suggest waiting a day or two and I will let you know when the credit issue is fixed. When you register for variable credit courses (clinic) MAKE sure that you register for the correct number of credits. I believe the system defaults to 1 credit so please make sure you change that to the correct number listed above.

Your tuition will be $1866.31 The payment deadlines for tuition are Aug 13th if paying in person and August 20th if paying online or electronically. Since you've all been through this before I don't think registration will be a surprise to any of you.

Professor Simonsmeier's class (Pediatric Motor/Dysphagia) will be taught on Mondays from 6:00 - 8:30 p.m. You will be taking the course via distance education (like you did with the voice and ed aud classes) but the classroom on campus will be filled with on-campus grad students. So, you'll all be taking the class together. You need to make sure your computer is up and running and be logged in and ready to start when the class begins because Professor Simonsmeier will START at 6:00.

Please let me know if you have any other questions. If you haven't already done so, please complete the survey for FALL SEMESTER and email it to Brynne. This announcement will be posted on the Outreach News as well. Now that you're not on campus and we're starting into a new school year, please check the Outreach News daily! Thanks.

Outreach Graduate Student Survey

Outreach students: please download and complete the End of Semester Survey. Then email it to Brynne brynne.davies@usu.edu before the end of the semester.

 

Accessing the Blackboard Course

Greetings Outreach Students! I hope you’re resting up from your busy week last week! If you cannot get into the Blackboard “checklist” course please email John Louviere john.louviere@usu.edu

 

Outreach Classes

Just a reminder that classes will start at 8:00 on Monday morning and we'll have a reorientation meeting at 11:00 after your first class. See you all then with all of your smiling and eager faces!!

 

PEJEP Scholarships: Time is Running Out!

If you are going to apply for the PEJEP Scholarship that has been discussed in our emails and on Outreach News recently you need to do so IMMEDIATELY!!! Don't delay!!! Do it now!!! Get on it!!! Am I clear on the need to HURRY UP?! Go through the process that has been posted already. Remember that you will need a letter from your superintendent stating that you are a priority for the funding. Thanks.

 

Voice Lab Time Change

Dr. Kim Corbin-Lewis' hospital voice lab that was tentatively scheduled for July 12 has been moved to July 19. The times remain the same (6 - 7:15, 7:30 - 8:45).

 

Student Loan Forgiveness

High-needs (Title 1) schools have the hardest time recruiting and retaining SLPs. ASHA has been advocating for legislation to include SLPs in the current federal student loan forgiveness program, which provides $17,500 in student loan forgiveness to math, science, and special education teachers for working in a Title 1 school for five consecutive years. Including SLPs in this program would provide an incentive for new SLPs to work with children in high-needs schools.

Your Senator sits on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and thus, can play a very critical and local role in advancing this issue for school-based SLPs. The HELP Committee is expected to consider a bill to reauthorize the provisions of the Higher Education Act soon. They need to include the provisions of H.R.1394 in this reauthorization bill. H.R.1394, the Helping Our Students Communicate Act of 2007, would extend the benefits of the existing math, science and special education teacher federal loan forgiveness program to qualified school-based SLPs.

Please take a moment and send your Senators an email urging them to include H.R. 1394 (the student loan forgiveness legislation) in the Higher Education Act by visiting our website at: http://capwiz.com/asha2/issues/alert/?alertid=9752521&type=ta . Email your senator now! Contact Neil Snyder, ASHA’s Director of Federal Advocacy, at 800-498-2071 ext 4257 or nsnyder@asha.org if you have any questions.

 

Culminating Presentations

As you prepare for your culminating presentations that will be upcoming in the fall or spring you may want to use this sheet to make sure you are addressing all the elements of your presentation. We will discuss this in our initial meeting this summer (first day of classes). [Download pdf.]

 

Voice Lab Adjustment

Please note the change of date for two sessions of Voice Lab 1 in the revised schedule below...

Lab 1:
June 26 (Tuesday) 6 - 7:15 p.m.
June 26 (Tuesday) 7:30 - 8:45 p.m.
June 27 (Wednesday) 6 - 7:15 p.m.
June 27 (Wednesday) 7:30 - 8:45 p.m.

Unless you are notified, Lab 2 times will remain the same as listed in the previous announcement.

Voice Practice This Summer

Greetings Outreach Students, As I mentioned earlier this year, we will be meeting this summer for short "hands-on" training experiences associated with the voice disorders class you had last fall semester. Each of you will meet in small groups for the following labs:
Lab 1: Voice clinic (on campus) to practice using the Visi-Pitch equipment.
Lab 2: Hospital voice clinic (Logan) to practice using the laryngoscopic equipment.

When you arrive for classes this summer I will have a schedule where you will sign up in groups of seven for both labs. You will be able to choose from the following times:
Lab 1: June 26 (Tuesday) 6 - 7:15 p.m.
June 26 (Tuesday) 7:30 - 8:45 p.m.
July 10 (Tuesday) 6 - 7:15 p.m.
July 10 (Tuesday) 7:30 - 8:45 p.m.

Lab 2: June 28 (Thursday) 6 - 7:15 p.m.
June 28 (Thursday) 7:30 - 8:45 p.m.
July 12 (Thursday) 6 - 7:15 p.m.
July 12 (Thursday) 7:30 - 8:45 p.m.

These times and dates are tentative but very likely to remain as they are listed now.

To sweep out the cobwebs from your voice class memory banks that were filled with information about 8 months ago and to help you prepare for the labs it is very important that you review Chapter 6 of the Stemple, Glaze and Klaben Clinical Voice Pathology textbook we used in class. Also, become very familiar with the terms in the glossary at the end of the chapter. Dr. Kim Corbin-Lewis in our department specializes in voice disorders and has extensive clinical experience in this area. She will be directing the hospital labs and she will be asking you questions relating to the information and terminology used in Chapter 6. We will also link you to a strobe rating form as it becomes available that you will use in the labs. I am giving you this information early so you can plan ahead and prepare before you get heavily involved in your summer classes. I am sure you will really enjoy these labs. You'll be using one another as "guinea pigs" and will gain some real "hands-on" experiences. Please be prepared. Thank you.

 

Public Education Job Enhancement Program

I've found out that, indeed, the T.H. Bell Scholarship is no longer available to outreach students. Those of you who have been receiving the scholarship have been contacted by the Dean's Office in The College of Education and Human Services. The information they have given you regarding the rules about the scholarship is accurate.

There is another scholarship that you may want to investigate. It is through the Utah Public Education Job Enhancement Program. This scholarship is given to encourage teachers to obtain additional education leading to endorsements, advanced degrees or graduate education in qualifying subject areas of the legislation. As SLP students you are working in one of those qualifying areas (Special Education). The maximum award amount is $20,000. Recipients are required to teach in the Utah public school system, in a qualifying subject area for four consecutive years following completion of the endorsement, degree or graduate education. Specifically, you would want to apply for the "Advancement Award."

Go to the website for further information: http://www.schools.utah.gov/cert/PEJEP/default.htm A committee meets on May 24th to prioritize the recommendations for the applications for this money. Because there is such a short turnaround it is very important that you apply right away if you are interested. I have just talked to Clara Walters in Educator Quality Services at USOE and she has given me the following directions which you should follow carefully:

1. For an application and additional information, please go to this website: http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/cert/PEJEP/advancement.htm
2. Fill out the application and then HAND CARRY it to your principal.
3. The principal writes a support letter and signs it and then takes it to the superintendent. The superintendent signs it and should write a letter of support also. Clara says his/her letter is VERY IMPORTANT!
4. The superintendent sends the letter to Clara Walters.

Because there isn't much time, I suggest that you start on this immediately. Also, when you have turned in the application to your principal, I suggest that you follow up in a professional manner to make sure that it has been sent on to the superintendent and that it goes from there to Clara Walters in a timely manner.

Now, please send answers to the following questions to Dee Child immediately:

1. Are you currently receiving the T.H. Bell Scholarship?
2. Do you intend to apply for the Public Education Job Enhancement Program Scholarship?

T.H. Bell Scholarship Availability

Some of you may have received information about the T.H. Bell Scholarship no longer being available to our outreach students because of technicalities in the wording. I (Dee Child) am checking with the Utah State Office of Education on this to see if it can be interpreted differently. I'll keep you posted.

 

Kathy Gantz Texts for Summer Outreach

Swigert, Nancy, The Source for Dysarthria, published by LinguaSystems 1997 ISBN 10: 0-7606-0162-3
Logemann, Jeri A.. Evaluation and Treatment of Swallowing Disorders (2nd Edition) 1998 by Pro-Ed ISBN 0-89079-728-5

Also, HIGHLY recommended (but not required; it IS expensive!)
Duffy, Joseph Motor Speech Disorders (2nd Edition) 2005 Published by Elsevier-Mosby ISBN 0-323-02452-1

 

Outreach Survey

Outreach students: please download and complete the end of semester survey. Once the survey is completed, please email it to Brynne Davies (brynne.davies@usu.edu). Thank you!

 

Text for COMD 6220

The text needed for COMD 6220: Severe Communication Impairments. The book is Beukelman & Mirenda (2005) Third Edition, Augmentative and Alternative Communication: Supporting Children and Adults with Complex Communication Needs. Paul H. Brookes Publishing.

 

Textbooks

Information from Professor Jaclyn Littledike:

The textbooks for COMD 6040 Outreach are as follows:
1. Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Anomalies by Ann Kummer, ISBN#0-7693-0077-4, Singular/Thomsen Learning Publisher.
2. Therapy Techniques for Cleft Palate Speech and Related Disorders by Karen-Golding Kushner, the only number listed is 12345XXX060504030200, Singular/Thomsen Learning.

Text 1 should be in at the Bookstore now and is the main text. Text 2 is a recent requirement I’ve added, and it will be there in about a month. The second text is used in the second half of the class, so that should be ok for the students.

 

Summer Outreach Class Schedule

Please download a pdf file of the Summer 2007 class schedule for Outreach students.

 

More Help With Summer Registration

Outreach students can contact Kathy ( kathyc@ext.usu.edu ) if they have any questions about summer registration. They can go the USU home page, select "distance education," select "look up courses," select "summer 2007," select their home center or select IDE Statewide, and then select their courses. Hopefully, they will all find the site easy to use.

 

Summer Clinic

I know that some of you are planning on being involved in our summer on-campus clinic and are in communication with our summer clinic directors - Professor Anne Elsweiler and Professor Kathy Gantz. Please email them if you have any questions about summer clinic.

 

Summer Semester Registration Information

You will be able to register from May 1 - 6 by registering online from USU's homepage. If you need help registering please contact USU's Helpdesk...

Contact Information:
Phone: 435.797.HELP
Phone: 435.797.4357
Email: helpdesk@usu.edu

 

Change in Tuition Assessment For Student in both Main Campus and Regional Campuses

The Registrar's Office has made changes in policy that allows a student to take courses in both on campus and in the Regional campuses, without being penalized, by charging the first credit twice, plateau, or the additional fees. However this can not be programmed into Banner at this time. Therefore we are putting a message on Access that tells the student to contact Regional Campuses at 797-3104 or to e-mail us at registrar@usu.edu to make that adjustment. We hope in the future to have this automated.

In addition all the front counter personnel, both on campus and in the centers, know to watch for this and report that adjustments are needed. We will also run a report during the semester to try and find these students and adjust their accounts. Once the adjustment is made we are placing a hold on the student's account to prevent them from changing their registration, since that would necessitate a change to the adjustments we have made. If they need to make changes to their schedule they will need to contact our offices directly so we can make the appropriate changes to their assessment. This does not affect any fixed rate course.

 

Hooding Ceremony/Commencement

To have your name appear in the commencement program AND participate in commencement AND have your degree posted to your transcript for Fall semester 2006 or Spring semester 2007, see requirements below:

• By July 14, 2006 or December 4, 2006: Plan A, B, & C: Program of Study form (and thesis proposal cover page for Plan A) must be completed, signed, and submitted to the Graduate School office. Approved supervisory committee form must also be on file.
• By November 15, 2006 or April 4, 2007: All graduate students: Graduation forms* must be completed and submitted to the Graduate School Office. (These forms and the diploma fee payment are not optional.)
• By November 15, 2006 or April 4, 2007: Plan A and doctoral students must have thesis or dissertation approved, cleared, and signed by the Graduate School Dean, and submit binding receipt.
• By December 16, 2006 or May 4, 2007: Final step: Letter of completion from department head for those in Plan B and Plan C programs must be submitted to the Graduate School office.

To participate in commencement only (your name will not appear in the program), see requirements below. 
Plan A (MS) and doctoral students: Please note, it is very likely that your degree will not be posted until the following semester due to time required for processing your thesis or dissertation being very limited at this late date and the fact that several other students are probably already lined up ahead of you.

• By April 5–27, 2007 or Nov. 16–Dec. 8, 2006: Plan A and doctoral students must submit graduation forms* and have thesis or dissertation (signed by committee) physically in the Graduate School office. Plan B students must complete ALL degree requirements, submit graduation forms* and Plan B binding receipt. Plan C students must submit graduation forms*.

*Graduation Forms include the Alumni File card, Commencement Data card, and Graduation Fee Payment form with proof of $15 diploma payment – Plan A, B, and doctoral students receive this paperwork at their defense. Defense must be scheduled with Grad School 10 working days prior to defense to allow time to get graduation forms and other necessary defense paperwork to committee. For a Plan C student, the department sends a “Plan C Completion Notification” to the Grad School at the beginning of the student’s completion semester; the Grad School then sends graduation forms to the student by mail. 

To have your degree posted to your transcript for Fall, Spring, or Summer, final deadlines for completing all degree requirements and submitting all corresponding  paperwork (as listed above) are:

Fall Semester:  December 16, 2006
Spring Semester:  May 4, 2007
Summer Semester:  August 3, 2007

Please allow 8-10 weeks following commencement for diplomas to be mailed.

 

Future Classes

Class Schedules

Summer 2 - Year 2
CD 6120 Motor Disorders/Dysphagia (Adult) (4 credits)
COMD 6030 Fluency (3 credits)
COMD 6220 Augmentative Comm (3 credits)
CD 6040 Orofacial Anomalies (3 credits)
COMD 6300 Clinic Externship (2 credits)
Total: 15 credits

Fall - Year 2
CD 6100 Clinic (3 credits)
COMD 6300 Clinic Externship (1 credit)
COMD 6900 Special Clinic Problems (1 credit)
CD 6140 Pediatric Motor/Dysphagia (3 credits)
Total: 8 credits

Spring - Year 2
CD 6100 Clinic (2 credits)
COMD 6900 Special Clinic Problems (1 credit)
EDUC 6550 Research (3 credits)
COMD 6300 Clinic Externship (2 credits)
Total: 8 credits

Summer 3 - Year 2
COMD 6210 Bilingual/Bidialectal (2 credits)
COMD 6050 Pro Practice (1 credit)
COMD 6300 Clinic Externship (6 credits)
Total: 9

 

Text For Fluency Class

Textbook for Outreach: Com D 6030 -- Disorders of Fluency-Stuttering Guitar, B. (2006). Stuttering: An Integrated Approach to Its Nature and Treatment (3rd Edition). Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. ISBN: 0-7817-3920-9

 

Summer Classes and Tuition

Your summer 2007 class schedule looks like this:
CD 6120 Motor Disorders/Dysphagia (Adult) - Kathy Gantz (4 credits)
COMD 6030 Fluency - Anne Elsweiler (3 credits)
COMD 6220 Severe Comm Impairments - Beth Foley (3 credits)
COMD 6300 Clinic Extern - Chad Bingham (2 credits)
CD 6040 Orofacial Anomalies - Jaclyn Littledike (3 credits)

Tuition will be approximately $3,300. We don't know exactly yet because we have to wait for the outcome of the State Legislative sessions. With the current tuition schedule your tuition would be approximately $2,800 but it will likely increase based on previous years. Brynne will register everyone and you will pay your tuition online once your are registered. We will notify you when registration takes place. I think it wil be in a month or so.

 

Culminating Presentation

During Spring Semester next year you will need to complete a "culimnating presentation". To get you thinking and planning ahead, please read through the following. We will discuss this in detail in the beginning of Summer Semester.

To meet the requirements for a Plan C option, the master's degree candidate in Speech- Language Pathology will complete a professional presentation. This multimedia presentation, including handouts and relevant bibliography, will be comprised of a carefully prepared clinical case study (approximately 30 minutes in length) and will be presented to the student's graduate supervisory committee.

Upon assignment by the department to a supervisory committee the student will meet with his/her supervisory committee chair to discuss potential candidates for the case study. The selection of the participant for the case study is tentative until informed consent has been obtained. Under the guidance of the graduate committee, the student must then obtain the appropriate informed consent releases.

The student presentation will be open to all interested students and faculty members. When making the presentation, the student must ensure that identifying information about the client has been removed or changed to comply with confidentiality standards.

This case study should incorporate diagnostic findings that include those obtained from standardized testing and instrumental measures, as well as those obtained from behavioral observation, criterion-referenced assessment, artifact/portfolio review and analysis, language sampling, and/or participant observation (dynamic assessment). Treatment information, with goals, outcomes, and recommendations, should also be presented for not only the client but the family as well, if applicable.

The student must demonstrate the ability to interpret, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate clinical information, using tools recommended from the best practice guidelines of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, as well as demonstrate knowledge of research specific to the disorder illustrated by the case study. The presentation must include a handout with relevant bibliography. An outline of the probable presentation format has just been emailed to you.

 

Next Year's Tentative Schedule

We are trying to also open up more time in Summer 2008 for you to get additional clinical clock hours. We are considering the following schedule adjustment (basically moving the Pediatric Motor/Dysphagia class out of Summer 2008 to late afternoon or early eve of Fall Semester and you'd take it distance with the on-campus students who would be in the campus classroom.

Fall - Year 2
COMD 6100 Clinic (3 credits)
COMD 6900 Special Clinic Problems (1 credit)
CD 6140 **Pediatric Motor/Dysphagia (3 credits)
COMD 6300 Clinic Extern (1 credit)
Total: 8 credits

Spring - Year 2
COMD 6900 Plan C Defense (1 credit)
COMD 6100 Clinic (2 credits)
COMD 6300 Clinic Extern (2 credits)
EDUC 6550 Research (3 credits)
Total: 8 credits

Summer 3 - Year 2
COMD 6300 Clinic Extern on or off campus (6 credits)
COMD 6050 **Pro Practice (1 credit)
COMD 6210 **Bilingual/Bidialectal (2 credits)
Total: 9 credits

Summer Clinic

Dates: June 5, 6, 7, 18, 19, 21, July 2, 3, 5, 25, 26, 27
Times: Mornings (say, 8-12)
Length of sessions: 50 minutes
# of likely clients each student would have: 2
Maximum # of outreach students we would take: No more than 12
Minimum # of outreach students we would take: No less than 8
Preparation materials or assignments: Outreach students meet for general meeting about summer clinic, requirements with both supervisors on June 4. At this time they will get their assignments. Then meet individually with supervisors on June 4 for initial planning meetings on their individual clients. Prep materials would depend on clients assigned.
Supervisors: Kathy Gantz and Anne Elsweiler
What types of clients: Mainly adult (aphasia, apraxia, dysarthria, fluency, and possibly some others--if they are low-incidence disorders)
Do assessments or just treatment: Primarily treatment, but will do assessments when needed (usually when client is beginning treatment).

 

Copy of Email I (Dee Child) just sent to all of you..

Hi Everyone! I talk to Jim Blair often and he is very pleased with this outreach group. He likes your interaction in his class and your "real-clinic" experiences. Good for you!

This semester has been full of excitement (and a whole bunch of work) and I just can't believe it's already February. Time goes by so fast when we're busy. Chad and I have discussed the potential bottleneck with your group in getting all the adult clinic hours you'll need by the time you finish your coursework. To help we have set up an OPTIONAL opportunity for some of you. We are going to offer you a summer clinic experience here on campus, with primarily adult clients. The clinic will be run by Anne Elsweiler and Kathy Gantz, two of our faculty members/clinical supervisors. The clinic will be woven between class weeks, so you would end up spending much of your summer here in Logan.

It will give those of you who would be able to be involved an opportunity to earn some very good adult hours, being supervised by two of our own clinic supervisors. The specific information about clinic is listed in an email from Anne Elsweiler. We are aware of your varying schedules getting out of school in the spring, and the July 4th and 24 holidays and we may have to adjust clinic around those days to accomodate the clients (and you) but you should not plan on any adjustment yet because it may not be necessary.

Please read through the information below and give this some serious thought. Then let me know if you'll be participating as soon as you can - no later than March 1st please. If we don't have enough outreach students interested we'll likely open the clinic up to our on-campus students, some who have already expressed interest. We'll close this option as soon as we have 12 of you who commit to being involved. We'd like to accommodate all of you but we know that some of you won't be interested or available so we think 12 will be a good number. Please give this some thought and get back to me with your decision via email. If you have specific questions please email me and I'll forward them on to Chad, Anne and/or Kathy. Thanks.

See Outreach 2006 Announcements