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Graduate Credit Hours

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Earn college credit for shadowing another SLP! 

How Expand Your S.C.O.P.E.™ works:

Expand Your S.C.O.P.E.™ is a one-of-a-kind clinician-matching service for in-person shadowing experiences and distance mentoring relationships.  We use a customized profile and proprietary algorithms to make matches based on experience and interests in specific disorders, settings, and populations with a current focus on ASHA-Certified Speech-Language Pathologists.  

 

The benefits of graduate credit hours for CCC-SLPs:

  • The American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA) accepts graduate credit hours toward your certificate maintenance hours.  

  • Additionally, many employers accept graduate credit hours toward advancement on the pay scale.  

  • Shadowing your fellow speech-language pathologist allows you to see what clinical and diagnostic techniques look like in the real world in the midst of logistical factors and un-planned circumstances that are not often covered vividly in traditional workshops and college classes.  Get the chance to not only see clinical practices, but ask questions to your fellow clinician while earning college credit to do so.  

Both Mentors and Mentees can earn graduate credit hours! 

Explaining clinical techniques is a great way to reinforce your own learning and mentorship allows for valuable exchanges for both participants.  While mentees learn from what they observe, mentors learn from educating their peers.  Therefore, Expand Your S.C.O.P.E.™ is pleased to offer graduate credit hours for shadowing experiences to mentor and mentee SLPs matched through our services.

Just follow these FIVE steps:

1. JOIN: Join Expand Your S.C.O.P.E.™ (FREE)

 

2. CREATE: Create a Private Profile (FREE) so that Expand Your S.C.O.P.E.™ can match you with an SLP to shadow in your area (or sign up with a CCC-SLP colleague and notify us that you would like to be matched together).

 

3. ENROLL: After you have been matched, sign up as a student at Portland State University.  The cost from PSU is: $35 registration fee and $60 per credit (you pay this at the end of the quarter).  For each credit hour, you must complete 7 hours of CEU videos and 5 hours of shadowing.  For example, if you take the course for 3 credit hours, then you would need to complete 21 hours of CEU video (3x7) and 15 hours of shadowing (3x5) during this quarter.  (See Chart Below).

4. REGISTER:

  • Download the course registration form.  

  • Fill out the form indicating that you would like to register for "10690 Hands-on Strategies for Mentoring/Being Mentored by Speech-Language Pathologists and Occupation Therapists | SPED 410/810."  Note: You may register to take the course for 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 credits.   

5. START LEARNING: Get a Premium Subscription to SpeechTherapyPD.com ($189 for 12 months of unlimited access to video CEU workshops).  This is where you will take your online CEU video workshops.  Combine what you learn through both the CEU videos and your in-person shadowing experiences to maximize your understanding of clinical practices in the real world. 

How you are graded:

Tests: Watch your selected CEU videos from SpeechTherapyPD.com and take the test that follows each video course.

 

Papers: After your shadowing experience, you will submit a reflection paper regarding your shadowing experience with the SLP you were matched with through ExpandYourScope.com.

Syllabus:

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