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?