Blog 17: Fourth Interview

Content:

Post 20 open-ended questions for approval you want to ask an expert in the field of your senior project.  The focus of your questions should be on your many answers.

If you have already interviewed someone two times, you aren't allowed to interview that same person without House teacher approval.

The interview itself is not due till Friday April 11 to turnitin.com.   However, we want to give you as much time as possible, so we are asking you to complete the blog now. Remember that in addition to turning in the interview, you also need to turn in the verification sheet to your House teacher.

1. What is a family-centered therapy?
2. How does a family centered therapy help a child with Autism?
3. When a speech pathologist integrates a family-centered strategy into therapy, how is it done?
4. Tell me about a time when you used a family-centered strategy for one of your patients?
5. When treating a child with Autism in a one on one therapy, what do you usually work on?
6. What type of therapy do you find most effective when treating language challenges in a child with Autism?
7. Tell me about activities you do in a one on one therapy session to help with language challenges?
8.  Based on your experience, what is your opinion on hands-on therapy?
9.  Can you provide me with an example of a time you used hands-on therapy and you found it effective?
10.  What challenge in  Autism can hands-on therapy help a child with?
11.  How do you help a child with Autism who has challenges with attention span?
12. Would behavior and emotional regulation challenges best be treated with group therapy or one on one therapy? Why?
13. Do you find an instructor led therapy effective when treating a child with Autism? Why?
14. Based on your experience and knowledge, do you feel group therapy does an effective job in treating the social challenges in children with Autism? Why?
15. What do you think is the most important thing when providing a therapy session?
16. What other therapies can you provide a child with Autism?
17. Based on all the therapies, which do you feel best meets the needs of a child with Autism?
18. How do you determine the goals a child with Autism has?
19. How often do evaluations occur? What occurs during an evaluation?
20. When you diagnose a child, what is the process you go through?

Almost Done With the Quarter!!

Going to my college class every Monday for 4 hours straight is painful but I've learned a lot. Professor Laubie has been a great help to me she has provided a lot of support and has been willing to help me out with anything. Things might have been a lot easier for me if I had met her before I started mentorship because she knows a lot of special education teachers I could have done my mentorship at. I think she could be a really good resource for future seniors that want to do their senior project on special education. For her class, students are required to complete 12 hours of observing a teacher. Since the class is a requirement for everyone in the credential program to take there is both special education teachers candidates and general teacher candidates. At this current time my independent component is made up of exactly 30 hours and I still have two more weeks until the quarter ends. The class really consists of going through a disorder and how special education plays a role, we then do case studies and present to the class to show we have some sort of idea of what we are doing.

Blog 16: Advisory Meeting #2

Content:

Just like you did for answer 1 and the objectives for Purther's textbook work for answer 2 post:

EQ

What is the best way for a Speech Pathologist to help a child with Autism?

Answer #2 (Write in a complete sentence like a thesis statement)*
A speech pathologist can integrate a family-centered therapy to help a child with Autism.

3 details to support the answer (a detail is a fact and an example)

• Establish communication partners - For example, the speech pathologist and parents are able to communicate between each other about the child, new skills they have learnt, and resources that are available for the child to receive.
• Parent Training- For instance, a comprehensive program that is offered for parents of children with Autism, it can include programs from formal to informal support groups .
• Broader based awareness- A family centered therapy will allow families to promote awareness and understanding of the disorder within and outside of their family.
• Family system and preferences are included- For example, during the therapy the speech pathologist can take into account priorities and concerns when planning interventions. Also, the speech pathologist is able to develop assessments and interventions that respects the family's system and preferences.





The research source (s) to support your details and answer

Source #23 a, b, and c 

"Guidlines for Speech-Language Pathologist in Diagnosis, Assesment, & Treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders Across the Life Span." American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. 2014. Web. 19 Feb. 2014.< http://www.asha.org/policy/gl2006-00049/#top> .

Concluding Sentence
A speech-pathologist can help a child with Autism by integrating a family-centered therapy because it provides the child with extra support at home.

*Write your answer like you would write a thesis statement.  Please don't give us one or two words or start your sentence with by.    Thanks!

On Friday 2/28 for Advisory #2, you will be presenting what you have from this blog.  The presentation is more like a share-out and should not last longer than 2 minutes. You don't need a visual.

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Approval

Content:

Please review the component contract at page 12 of the senior project packet.   The independent component 2 is an opportunity for you to add a dimension of creativity and/or an additional outlet for research.  The goal of the component is for you to explore your answers in more depth.  On Friday April 25, 2014, you will be turning in the following to your blog to prove completion of this component:

·       Log of hours on an digital spreadsheet (with total number of hours included)
·       Evidence of the 30 hours of work (e.g. transcript, essays, tests, art work, photographs) as digital artifacts
·       LIA
 The senior team expects that your log will be on the right hand side of your blog with your WB, independent component log 1 and mentorship log.   In addition to this,  we expect that you will be able to prove the total 30 hours of work by submitting evidence to the blog by the due date.  For this blog post and approval, please answer the following questions.

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.
I am sitting in a Introduction to Special Education Course at Cal Poly, but since it is a 400 level class young scholars does not allow me to enroll. I am gathering handouts that are distributed through the class and am taking extensive notes on the lectures.
2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.
I will assist every class meeting, the class is held once a week Monday's from 4-8 pm. Since the class lasts for four hours I plan to have my 30 hours count by me going to class and reviewing the material that is being taught
3.  And explain how what you will be doing will help you explore your topic in more depth.
The class will allow me gain a better knowledge on the process a child with Autism might have to go through when they go to school and what should be expected when they start school.

4.  Post a log on the right hand side of your blog near your other logs and call it the independent component 2 log.

Your answers to the questions should be supported with details and examples for the senior team to understand what you plan to do.   Once we review your Blog Post 15, your house teacher will discuss with you the approval of your plan.  If it is approved, please start working on it.  If it is not approved, your house teacher will explain why.  It is your job to address the concerns so you can get your component approved.

Blog 14: Independant Component 1

LITERAL

(a) Statement saying: “I, student name, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”

 “I, Diana Serrano, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”

(b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component

The people who helped me finish my independent component were the speech pathologist who allowed me to observe their therapeutic sessions at the rehabilitation center I volunteer at, my mentor Alexandria and other speech pathologist such as Ellie, Kristen, Amber, and Nikki
(c) Provide a digital spreadsheet (aka log of the 30 hours).   Post it next to your mentorship log

 

(d) Explanation of what you completed. 

For my independent component I completed a little more than 30 hours with my mentor and Kid's Crew

   

INTERPRETIVE 
Defend your work and explain how the significant parts of your component and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  
I was able to get a print out of the amount of hours I currently have in my whole volunteering at the rehabilitation center I volunteer at 30 of those hours are for my independent component and the rest are toward my mentorship component.

 

 

APPLIED
How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped. 

I was able to receive expert help on learning the basics of Autism and really understand the role and the job of a speech pathologist in both social and communication aspects of their disorder. For example when I would observe therapeutic session the speech pathologist I was observing would explain to me the disorder the child had and what they did in the therapy session to work on it.

I was able to have a field expert helping me and was able to get experience, for example when I volunteer at kid's crew I am able to see different social skills that are taught to children with autism and that helped me with my 30 minute presentation because that is what I based my first answer on and without having that experience I would not have been able to get this far.

Grading Criteria

• Log of digital spreadsheet
• Evidence of 30 hours of work
• LIA submitted to blog

Blog 13: Lesson 2 Reflection

Content:

1. Positive Statement

What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?
I am proud that I have been able to get up in front of my class and complete a my presentation successfully. This has been a really big accomplishment for me because its really hard for me to get up in front of people and especially all by myself.

2. Questions to Consider

       a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?

       AE       P          AP       CR       NC

       b.     Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.

I think I deserve that grade because I met all of the minimum requirements that were given to us. I talked for 10 minutes and my activity lasted 10 minutes as well.

3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?

I was able to organize my information in a way I found to be easy to understand and I was able to find a lot of examples to say about it.

 

4.  (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?

I need to learn how to be calm before a presentation because I get nervous and start off my presentation speaking really quickly.

 

5. Finding Value

What do you think your answer #2 is going to be? 

I think my second answer will be one on one therapy.