Undergraduate Internships
Undergraduates in Communicative Disorders are encouraged to pursue experiential opportunities prior to graduate study. Although direct clinical experience is not offered to students at the undergraduate level, students can become involved and gain exposure to clinical populations by participating in internships and volunteer activities. Students may participate in internships offered through the Office of Internships and Experiential Education during their junior and senior years. The Office of Internships and Experiential Education is located in Roosevelt Hall, first floor, and internships are available for students in any semester, fall, spring or summer. Students may also become involved in faculty sponsored internships, or participate in community based volunteer work. These activities help students to become professionals in the helping services.
N.B.: If an undergraduate student is interested in registering for an independent study to accompany an internship experience, he or she should first contact a departmental adviser or faculty person who teaches in the general area of the internship experience to request a CMD 492 registration. If accepted, this registration will involve some meetings with the faculty member during the semester to discuss the internship experience in light of the scope of practice of professional speech-language pathologists and/or audiologists.
Although this is not an exhaustive list of the possibilities for internship, students in Communicative Disorders have interned in the following outreach locations:
- Bradley Hospital, East Providence, RI
- Central Region Early Intervention, Warwick RI
- Chariho Public School System
- Grodon Center, Providence RI
- Hasbro Children's Hospital
- Narragansett Public School System
- Sargent Rehabilitation Center, Warwick RI
- South County Early Intervention
- South County Head Start
- South Kingstown Public School System
- URI's International Student Program
- URI's Speech and Hearing Centers
- University Otolaryngology
- Westerly Head Start
- Women and Infants Hospital, Providence RI
NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
Welcome to spring semester, 2012!
National Student Speech-Language-Hearing Association (NSSLHA) MEETING: Tuesday, April 24th, 2012 from 7:15 to 9 p.m., White Hall, Auditorium (Room 113)
At our upcoming meeting we will be voting on our new by-laws (pick up a copy in Suite H, INSQ in the lounge if you were not at our last meeting) and voting for officers for next year. Special Program: Advocacy for SLPs, presented by Ellen Connery, President of the Rhode Island Speech and Hearing Association!
Thanks to our former students: Lauren Carey, Christine Schiemer, and Ashley White, who spoke with our NSSLHA group about working as an SLP in the real world at our l;ast meeting on March 28th!
Check out our updated table of graduate student student outcomes: PRAXIS examination, graduation, and employment rates by linking to:
Why CMD at URI? - Communicative Disorders - University of Rhode Island
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