Shadowing Experience #1 (EWU Speech Therapy)
*Completed on November 1, 2006*
This was a pretty neat experience because of the way the shadowing was set up. When we arrived at EWU at the ungodly hour of 8AM, they took us to the back hallway and showed us the rooms where we could go in and watch the therapy take place. These rooms were set up adjacent to the therapy rooms but had one-way glass so we could watch but not be seen.
The first patient we watched could have easily been the guy from the video we saw in class time. He had a stroke and was going through therapy to help with his formation of words and memory of everyday items. The first part of the therapy involved looking at picture cards and identifying what was in the picture. Then the patient had to try and spell the item from a set of letters that the therapist gave him. Then he was supposed to write the word down a few times on a sheet of paper. This was quite tough for him, especially the longer words, but he got through that portion of the therapy.
The next part of the therapy involved a computer and some sort of item naming/picture naming program. We couldn't see what was going on with the computer because the screen was turned away from us. However, we could hear the patient hearing the computer say a word and then repeating it. My best guess was that it was a bunch of pictures and the computer spat out the word associated with the picture.
Thus ended our speech therapy shadowing. All in all, it was a good experience but I cannot see myself in that type of therapy setting. The speech therapist needs a great deal of patience to get through the session and it seems like it would be quite frustrating most times.
This was a pretty neat experience because of the way the shadowing was set up. When we arrived at EWU at the ungodly hour of 8AM, they took us to the back hallway and showed us the rooms where we could go in and watch the therapy take place. These rooms were set up adjacent to the therapy rooms but had one-way glass so we could watch but not be seen.
The first patient we watched could have easily been the guy from the video we saw in class time. He had a stroke and was going through therapy to help with his formation of words and memory of everyday items. The first part of the therapy involved looking at picture cards and identifying what was in the picture. Then the patient had to try and spell the item from a set of letters that the therapist gave him. Then he was supposed to write the word down a few times on a sheet of paper. This was quite tough for him, especially the longer words, but he got through that portion of the therapy.
The next part of the therapy involved a computer and some sort of item naming/picture naming program. We couldn't see what was going on with the computer because the screen was turned away from us. However, we could hear the patient hearing the computer say a word and then repeating it. My best guess was that it was a bunch of pictures and the computer spat out the word associated with the picture.
Thus ended our speech therapy shadowing. All in all, it was a good experience but I cannot see myself in that type of therapy setting. The speech therapist needs a great deal of patience to get through the session and it seems like it would be quite frustrating most times.
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