6th Week Complete
Everything is going great!
Clinic:
Both placements (preschool and adult) are going really well.
I have become much less nervous around my adult clients, which is great! I think I can still do even better, however for now I think I’m doing the best I can.
The preschool placement is so much fun. As someone who doesn’t think they wanted to work with children, this placement is much better than I anticipated. We started speech and language screenings using the PLS-5 a few weeks ago. At first it was pretty scary trying to get through the protocol, however its really easy to go through the test now.
The one aspect that I don’t like is the speech sample we have to gather at the end of each screening. It’s so difficult to get some kids to talk! I’m still working on perfecting the questions I can ask the child to get the most words produced.
Classes
The hardest class is definitely my articulation and phonology disorders course. We just had our midterm yesterday and I honestly don’t know how it went. I feel like my answers were very subjective and it al depends on how the professor decides to grade it. Since the class is only once a week, I won’t get my grade back for a week unless she uploads grades online.
My neuroscience class midterm did go pretty well. I received a 91%, which was a little unexpected because of how much information was included on the test. Additionally, my quizzes and other work have been close to 100% as of right now.
My other classes have their midterms coming up in the next 2 weeks, but I’m not too worried right now. As long as articulation turns out to be okay, I think the rest will be fine!
I’m definitely nowhere near as stressed as I thought I would be in my first semester of graduate school and I hope to stay this stress-free for as long as I possibly can.