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Hello! I would recommend really knowing how to assess expressive and receptive language informally. The standardized test aren't going to be your best friend if you have a nonverbal/minimally verbal kid but they could still work! The children I have worked with so far in grad school have been really young or they were young children with autism and I provided play therapy. I needed to learn how to play again and I had to change the way I spoke. I was speaking in less than 4 word utterances. I also needed to really work towards being the reinforcer for the kids because tokens weren't enough. I don't know the way your clinical experience is set up but I had a bunch of toys to choose from. I would fill up a bin of toys and sit on the ground. The child would pick a toy and I needed to come up with a way to implement that toy and their goals on the spot. Some kids really benefit from having a visual schedule, stations, "first/then" schedules, timers. Things that give the time you have with them structure. If you just have an artic kid who is a little older and has no behavioral problems it can be really chill lol. It really is just drill and kill those sounds, some tokens, and provide a short play break to keep them motivated. I've seen some clinicians do an artic jeopardy game to make it more fun for the kids! Working with the kids is a lot of fun! Enjoy it, hope I helped! :)

All of my cohort gets along great! i think it had a lot to do with the fact that one of our first semester professors had us work in groups A LOT and she would randomly place us with eachother. We all got to know eachother really well, we even have a group whats app chat, everyone is in it and someone is always ready to lend a helping hand. of course there will be people you get along with better but i feel comfortable and confident to be around all of the people in my cohort!

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That's great! reading it back I do seem pessimistic and think you're completely right! People should definitely try, no harm in trying especially if you have awesome letters of rec, experience, or GRE scores! Personally my GRE wasn't all that good but I think my GPA balanced it out. All about a balanced candidate. Good luck when you start in the fall, it'll be exciting and go by so quickly!

hello! My favorite thing is definitely the lower cost of tuition. I also like that the cohorts in my university typically range from 15-22 people, so you get to know everyone really well, I feel like that competitive environment significantly decreases, there's no reason to be competitive anymore, there are so many well paying jobs in california. we are constantly receiving emails about job opportunities and organizations who want to talk to us are always at the school to tell us about the possibility of working with them. My university has an on campus clinic. We do three semesters of on campus clinic and in one semester we can have 2-3 clients that we see twice a week. These clients can be older with parkinsons or aphasia or we can have 3 year olds with a language disorder and autism and anything in between. We have one semester of a medical externship where we can be placed at a hospital or a skilled nursing facility and we have one semester where we are placed in a school district. My program gives students the opportunity to do a comprehensive exam or a thesis(research opportunity) most students opt for the exam and we only have 1 or 2 doing a thesis. I believe this individuals receive a lot of support from the staff. The one thing about the CSUs is that they're all about GPA. You may see on ASHA that someone got in with a 3.3 but I guarantee you that person did undergrad at the university and are definitely the exception. Overall, I enjoy it and don't regret my decision.

Fresno state does not have rolling admission, but it does have spring admission. I know that ASHA doesn't have much information about the school, but I know of the school. It's a California state school, so it's very competitive. Less competitive in the spring than the fall. I have friends who currently attend and know the stats. The fall mainly takes 3.9-4.0 gpa candidates in the last 60 units. The school is big on GPA. The spring will take people with a 3.7. Your GRE scores don't have to be great, a 150, 150, 3 would be fine. They mainly care about GPA.

I'm in grad school now and if you get lower grades they will kick you out of the grad program. graduate programs put a lot of emphasis on academic success. I don't know of any grad program that would allow a bunch of Cs and would let you continue. You can get all the Bs in grad school you want though.

Mine did not, but like the previous post said this field is competitive. When I was applying for grad school the GPA minimum requirement for every school that I looked into was a 3.0. If you're struggling with undergrad exams and assignments the ones in grad school are not easier, i don't know about other schools but in my grad program if you get a D in any class you're out of the program, if you get 2 Cs over the course of the program you're out, if you get below a 3.0 in a semester you're out. I've heard of advisor who recommend a change of career path for people i was in undergrad with because they said they would not get into any of the California state school with GPAs on the lower side. the lowest GPA in my grad cohort was like a 3.7. If you really want to be an SLP I say keep trying hard in undergrad and aim for the highest GPA you can, volunteering and working with populations with intellectual disabilities looks great on an application, holding an officer position in NSSLHA looks great, at least try and run, if you don't win you can write about how you tried and it shows that you were willing to take a leadership role, talk and ask questions to your professors so that you get good letters of Rec, and study for you're GRE. If you really want to be an SLP don't get discouraged if you're rejected on your first application cycle. There's a girl in my cohort that applied 3 time before she finally got in.

My program has comps take place a a couple of days before the start of the last semester, so we get all of the summer to study. I don't know how yours is set up but mine is in sections and if we don't pass a section of comps we have to go to something called orals. we are basically infront of our professors while they ask us questions about what we wrote down and ask us to expand. Just about everyone who goes to orals passes at orals. My program gives us the option of writing a thesis or doing comps, and less than 2 people in each cohort chose thesis, comps is way more preferred. I don't think it matters, as long as your institution is ASHA accredited you are good to go!

Thanks! i truly think state schools are great, mine has an on campus clinic and we get a variety of clients and we have great supervisors, 3 semesters of on campus clinic and one medical placement at great hospitals. There is such a need for SLPs that many places do not care what school you went to as long as you have those CCCs after your name and you paid your fees lol

honestly I decided a cheaper state school, as long as it's ASHA accredited they're all the same in my eyes. I'm leaving grad school with less than $20,000 in debt for 5 semesters, feels like a win to me.

hey! im a current SLP grad student and I'm naturally a very shy and an introvert but when I'm in clinic it's so easy for me to forget I'm being watched. I had clients who kept me very busy and focused on them, trust me when I say that you'll forget they're watching, I know you're thinking "theres no way I'll forget" but you will lol. the way my program is set up the grad clinicians are observed by the parents, undergrad SLP majors (sometimes I'll pop my head out of my room and see that i have over 10 students watching me lol), and the supervisor. they observe me through a double sided window and they're able to hear everything. The best thing to remember is that your client/their family knows that it's a learning environment and you're supervisor popping into your room to help you is no the end of the world, you're learning, everyone knows it, and you will improve. Also if you're unsure talk to your supervisor, it's their job to clear any confusion. My clinic is graded by a credit/no credit. basically we have to get a 4 out of 5 to get credit. which just means that your competent. But in my program if you're doing really bad you'll get told whether you'll fail in the evaluations that are done by the supervisor 3 times in the semester. If you do poorly they'll let you know and give you an opportunity to show improvement over a few sessions, if you don't then it's a no credit for the semester. very rare occurrence in my program though.

Hello everyone! I'm in the process of writing my letter of intent for grad school and am really struggling with how to connect my work with young children (3-4 years old with no developmental disabilities) and connecting it with speech pathology when my work with them had nothing to do with speech. All I did with them was fun activities (counting, abcs, read with them sometimes) I more so watched over them but this experience made me feel more comfortable and confident being around young children. Can anyone who had similar experience help me find a way of connecting it with speech pathology.