Speech Pathology: A Case Study: Jennifer Mcmillen

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I job shadowed Jennifer McMillen on Friday May 13, 2016 from 8 am to 2:15pm. Jennifer McMillen is a speech pathologist that is currently employed through BOCES. She travels to multiply schools throughout the day starting with Ridge Road Elementary then traveling throughout the day to Central Street Elementary, Horseheads Intermediate, and Horseheads High Schools. Ms. McMillen attended school at Ithaca College where she received her bachelor’s degree in communication sciences and her Master of Science in Speech Therapy. Ms. McMillen is licensed and has her C’s. Previously to working at BOCES Ms. McMillen work for Ithaca City School district as an SLP. When I asked what Ms. McMillen like the most about working in a school her response really …show more content…

The session was thirty minutes long. The objective of this session was to increase the child’s MLU. Materials used for this session include; I pad, picture cards with sentences, Velcro words so the student could physical make the sentence and use the appropriate amount of words. Strategies used include, using minimal cues, asking the child what the picture was and providing feedback and correction when necessary. The main reinforcement for this session was smiley faces; the student loves smiley faces so every time he completed a task he would receive a smiley face. The point of the smiley faces was working toward I pad time at the end of the …show more content…

The session was only ten minutes long, because at Horseheads School district use a program called Five Minute kids which is where any kids that only has an articulation problem is only seen for ten minutes, but during that ten minutes is bombarded with words. The objective of this session was to improve the articulation of /r/ in sentences and during carry over. The strategies used in this session included a lot of barging, to get the student to participate in the therapy session. As far as reinforcement/motivator the child was told the exact day that he would be done with speech and that he could get two blow pops that

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