What is it about?
We were interested in learning about the effect that completing a semester of graduate school has on speech-language pathology students' perceptions of their self-efficacy (confidence) for completing a variety of clinical tasks. We used a survey that the students completed at the beginning and end of the semester. We found that they generalized what they learned in class and clinic beyond the content and clients they experienced to all aspects of speech-language pathology.
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Why is it important?
Self-efficacy is an important aspect of effective clinical performance. Clinical and classroom faculty in speech-language pathology programs need to work with their graduate students in a way that develops self-efficacy that is matched with clinical competence.
Perspectives
My colleague and I hope that clinical and classroom faculty in speech-language pathology can use the results of this study in their teaching. We are interested in helping students maximize their clinical competency and self-efficacy as practicing speech-language pathologists
Richard Morris
Florida State University
As professors in communication sciences and disorders it is our primary job to train the next generation of speech-language pathologists and audiologists. We hope the results of this study give our peers and colleagues confidence that graduate training is indeed helpful. Furthermore, we offer some suggestions for targeting self-efficacy in graduate programs.
Christopher Constantino
Florida State University
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This page is a summary of: Self-Efficacy for Clinical Tasks Among Speech-Language Pathology Graduate Students, Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, February 2023, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA),
DOI: 10.1044/2022_persp-22-00037.
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