Speech-Language Therapy
Program Overview
At Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware, our goal is to provide quality care to our patients while helping students gain skills to become a competent therapist. We promote education by modeling and hands-on experiences. We encourage students to take responsibility for their own learning and to take initiative in gaining knowledge and experience.
As a student, you’ll receive guidance and tools to enhance the learning process. You may have the opportunity to observe the following:
- Diagnostic observation (including ICU, NICU, developmental evaluations, gait lab and others)
- Hospital-sponsored seminars
- Vendor demonstrations
- Research/applied science
- Specialty clinics (including Down syndrome, AMC, seating, CP, prosthetics, cleft palate and others)
- Surgery observation
- Curriculum
- Requirements
- Location & Living
Details for Speech-Language Pathology
Speech-Language Pathology graduate student clinicians are required to have completed at least one full-time off student placement prior to an affiliation at Nemours.
Completion of a course in dysphagia is required for most placement opportunities. Completion of a course in pediatric dysphagia is highly recommended.
Tests and measures you may be expected to participate in include:
- Preschool Language Scale-5 (PLS-5)
- Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals — 5th Edition (CELF-5)
- Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals Preschool — 2nd Edition (CELFP-2)
- Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation — 3rd Edition (GFTA-3)
- Ross Information Processing Assessment-Primary (RIPA-P)
- Ross Information Processing Assessment — 2nd Edition (RIPA-2)
- Functional Independence Measure for Children (WeeFIM)
- Communication Function Classification System (CFCS)
- Eating and Drinking Ability Class System (EDACS)
- Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL)
Questions About Applying?
J. Heather Northam, MA, CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathology
jamie.northam@nemours.org