Reporting Clinical Hours:

 

You are responsible for obtaining supervisor documentation of all clinical hours through signature and ASHA account number. You should keep track of all clinical hours completed during a semester.  At the end of the term, when hours are to be submitted, you must fill out and submit the Departmental Observation/Contact Time Submission Form for Speech-Language Pathology. This form must be filled out exactly according to the form directions. Submit the original, photo copies are not acceptable. The form must be submitted with no corrections, white-outs, mark‑overs or strikeouts. Cells must be filled out completely on each line used. Do not use ditto marks or arrows to fill in cells. Incorrect forms will be returned to you. Please see Appendix H for a copy of the De­partmental Observation/Contact Time Submission Form and the Clinical Clock Hours Summary and the accompanying directions for each.

 

The Department and ASHA require specificity regarding the types of clinical activity for which clinical hours may be assigned. Clinical hours may be assigned only if there is direct contact with the client or the client’s family in assessment, management, and/or counseling. If you are observing, recording data or serving as an aide, and not providing a direct client contact service, clinical hours may not be assigned. In team treatment or diag­nostics, direct client contact hours are the only hours which may be assigned and then only in the amounts actually obtained in contact. For example, in a diagnostic session, if one student evaluates the client and another interviews the parents, both students may receive hours credit for the time spent providing the service. However, if one student works with the client for 30 minutes and another student works with the client for the next 45 minutes, each student receives credit for the time he/she actually provided services - that is, 30 and 45 minutes, not 75 minutes.­

 

If you fail to complete the required number of hours in the appropriate Departmental distribution, you will not be permitted to graduate and will not receive Departmental endorsement for certifica­tions and licensure.

 

Repeating Practica To Accumulate Clinical Hours:

 

With permission of your program director and/or the CCD director, you may repeat a practicum course in order to accumulate needed hours in a specified category to meet ASHA and Departmental requirements. You will be responsible for all practicum requirements but will be graded on a pass/fail basis. The practicum course will appear on your transcript but will not be part of your planned program of graduate studies. Please be advised that repeating a practicum to accumulate hours is not the same as repeating the practicum for academic reasons.