Demjc24

Seconding Eastern New Mexico University's program! I'm graduating from it in December. Also a military spouse and actually got pregnant and gave birth to both of my kids during the course of my matriculation through the program. It's a very flexible program, you can switch between full and part time. You do have to attend on campus for the first semester (16 weeks) in order to participate clinic. After that, you can complete the program anywhere. PM me if you have questions

Hi there, I'm about to graduate from ENMU's grad program. Who is your advisor? I recommend that you email Dr. Swift, the grad program director. She respond very quickly to emails and is very helpful. Good luck!

I am a second year in ENMU's program. I am not sure how many are placed on the wait list, but they accept 25-30 students per cohort I believe. I highly recommend taking the 9 credit hours if you're able to. I don't know if it has any effect on your chances of being accepted, as they do blind reviews so they don't know any names until they have decided on the applicant packages they will accept; however, the majority of students that I know who took classes prior to being formally accepted were admitted for the subsequent application cycle. The 9 graduate hours can be competed either online or on campus, all of the students I know did theirs online though. If you are serious about getting into ENMU's program and don't get in off the wait list this cycle, then definitely take advantage of this! It will lighten your course load significantly once you're in the program. If you have any more questions feel free to ask! Good luck!!!

I would ask this on the SLP Reddit. You might get more responses through there :)

Hi! I'm a current grad student in ENMU's program. Just wanted to let you all know that letters went out today. Dr. Swift said they were supposed to be sent on Friday, but it got pushed back. I remember the anticipation of checking my mail everyday, so I wanted to share. Good luck to all!!

San Juan Village is the only place that I looked at. This is where many of the students in the program live. I pay $480/month for a 4 bedroom. They match you with other roommates, and will more than likely try to match you with someone else in the program. Everything is included in that rent and the apartments come furnished! There is also a pool, workout area, and computer lab for residents to use.

I'll be honest, flying to and from California twice a week is unrealistic. The nearest airport is in Lubbock which is two hours away, and there aren't direct flights out of there. Even if there were a closer airport, making that trip on top of graduate school coursework seems impossible to me. Everyone lives in this area for the first semester. Some people choose to stay for subsequent semesters, while others go back to their hometown after the first semester. Clinic is two days a week, typically Mon/Wed or Tues/Thurs. You also have meetings with supervisors and confidential client report writing that must be done in a specific lab within the department. So with that, you're on campus more often than twice a week for your sessions. So just stick it out for the first semester, and you'll be able to go wherever you want!

I believe all of the graduate level courses are synchronous, but not undergraduate. I do know someone in speech and hearing science currently, and I don't think you have to attend it in live time since that class is solely online. As far as clinical placements go, I'll give a little run down of how it works. Your first semester you are on campus in the clinic. After this, students go to a public school for a semester, a SNF for a semester, and birth-3 facility for a semester. Then you have what they call a "floater" semester where you choose one of the 3 previous placements to do again. In your last semester, you will do your hospital internship. Yes, it is true that you have to come up with a list of placements and the clinic director contacts them and will formulate an affiliation agreement with the site and supervisor. We do have some students from LA in my cohort, and they did mention during orientation that LA is a difficult location to place. As far as I know though, everyone that has been through the program has been successful in securing placements. The clinic director does all of the negotiating and communicating with potential sites, you could be contacted for an interview though. I am in my first semester getting ready to do my school placement in the fall, so I don't have personal experience with it yet! I think it's great that the program allows us to get so much real world experience though! Let me know if you have any more questions!

I attend ENMU currently. Distance education students attend classes synchronously with in class students. You attend in live time. Generally you check in with the instructor through video Skype, and then throughout the class you communicate with the class through the instant message component of Skype. All of the lectures are recorded, so you can go back and rewatch them as many times as you wish. It actually works out very well, the instructors are all very savvy with technology!

Scisl006- I moved to New Mexico from Minnesota in January! I attend Eastern New Mexico University's program. Congratulations and good luck! New Mexico is definitely a big change

I have been a nursing assistant for the past 4 years, working alongside RNs and was just accepted to SLP grad school. So I'll give my comparasion of the two professions.... The pay is actually better in SLP, but that isn't everything. I will say that the RNs I work with are extremely stressed. They basically have someone's life in their hands on top of a million other things. Not to say that SLP isn't stressful, but unless you specialize in dysphagia, it isn't life and death work. Yes, the schedule flexibility in nursing is nice, but you are probably going to have to work every other weekend and every other holiday, whereas in SLP you would not have to do that no matter what setting you work in. I know 3 nurses that have actually decided to go back to school and pursue SLP, PT, or OT because they are burnt out and can't take the stress anymore. It's not the acting for others that's stressful, it's management that short staffs them and whatnot which makes things difficult. It is definitely a very hard and underappreciated profession. Nurses need more recognition for what they do. At the same time, most people don't even know what an SLP does, or they think that you just correct kids who can't say their Rs. So both professions have some sort of frustration level when it comes to others understanding your expertise. SLP has just has many job prospects and wonderful job security; you just have to get a Masters degree. You could get your BSN faster with the accelerated program, which you already mentioned. I think in the long-run SLP is a better option, but in the short-term nursing is since you can graduate and start working faster. Both professions are wonderful and they do so much to help people, whether others recogmize it or not. You will be happy no matter what decision you make. Good luck!

Keep in mind that for some of the programs mentioned, they do require you to submit contact information for references instead of a letter

I know Ball State University has an online ABA Master's program!

So I'm starting to second-guess my observation hours. I graduated with my B.S. in Communication Sciences and Disorders and the 25 observation hours were a requirement of one of my classes. However, we were able to observe the current graduate students in our on-campus clinic under the supervision of the clinical director, who is a licensed SLP. I'm now concerned that my observation hours won't count, because obviously the graduate students I observed didn't have their CCC's yet. We were told that these hours would count towards the requirement by the professor and clinical director, but now I am a little worried that the schools I applied to won't accept these. Did anyone else do something similar to this? If so, did it have an affect anything? I'm applying to Spring 2015, and all of my applications are submitted. I am just stressing that this may hurt my chances of being accepted. Thanks for your help!!

On ENMU's program application, it asks you to list your weaknesses and then states that there is a 200 character maximum per line. My question is, does this limit mean that you can only answer in one 200 character line? Or can I start a new line and continue my response? I hope my question makes sense. I know I'm getting kind of technical, but it is something that I have been wondering about. Thanks for any input!!