Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019
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Date of Graduation
Spring 2017
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Department
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Advisor(s)
Cynthia R. O'Donoghue
Marsha Longerbeam
Linda Freeman
Abstract
The present paper focuses on the interdisciplinary skill development of speech-language pathology graduate student clinicians and occupational therapy graduate student clinicians in the treatment of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. This paper explains the significance of these disciplines in the treatment of Autism before giving the results of the study. For the present study, data was collected at James Madison University’s Summer Autism Camp over a four-week period. There were ten speech-language pathology (SLP) clinicians that received the survey and eleven children with Autism that were enrolled in the program. It was hypothesized that the SLP clinicians would display skill acquisition and improvement based on observations rated on a Likert scale. Data collected on a basis of frequency of occurrence of observation results shows that clinicians did acquire skills and knowledge over the four-week period in both disciplines.
Recommended Citation
Kagle, Rachel F., "Interdisciplinary skill development during summer autism clinic" (2017). Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019. 356.
https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/honors201019/356
