What is it about?
In this publication, I talk about the development of a supervisory guide and the pilot of the guide with 10 supervisors. We then explore the feedback from the supervisors and data collected about the consistency of opportunities graduate students are getting across school-based clinical placement sites.
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Why is it important?
This project is important because we want to ensure that supervisors are getting enough support in clinical placements and graduate students are getting the opportunities they need to be successful in their clinical fellowship.
Perspectives
As a graduate student supervisor in the school based setting, I noticed that many universities had different expectations for the graduate student placements. Some universities gave very little information on what is expected of the supervisor during the externship. Starting off as a supervisor, there’s also very little training. I started this project to explore the effect these inconsistencies are having. I ended up making a supervisory guide and having supervisors trial it for me!
Erin Leeming
University of Central Florida
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This page is a summary of: Development and Implementation of a Supervisory Guide for School-Based Clinical Externships, Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, December 2025, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA),
DOI: 10.1044/2025_persp-25-00098.
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