Reflecting on Service-Learning in Higher Education by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Published: 2012-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Language and Literacy Program Characteristics

The location of the LLP service-learning experience was at Indiana

University–Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW). At IPFW the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders educates between 90 and 100 undergraduate students annually and prepares them to pursue the graduate degrees that they will need to practice as licensed speech language pathologists (SLP) (master’s degree) or audiologists (doctoral degree).

The Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at IPFW introduced a new undergraduate service-learning model in the summer of 2014. This forty-hour (eight hours per week for five weeks) model was developed in accordance with ASHA guidelines regarding the knowledge and skills needed by speech-language pathologists with respect to reading and writing in children and adolescents (ASHA, 2002). For a six-week summer session, CSD majors and five children from the community with reading difficulties came together for the LLP. The LLP consisted of two components: a class about language and literacy in the morning, and then working with the children for a two hour block of time, four days a week.

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