LIU POST
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Portfolio Requirement
A Portfolio is a collection of accomplishments as evidenced by artifacts that an individual can use to demonstrate their achievements and accomplishments in the content areas for which they are prepared. It is a work in progress throughout your graduate education and beyond that can be used at an internship or job interview. It is also a requirement of the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at C.W. Post to demonstrate that you have achieved the desired learner outcomes in prevention, assessment and intervention for infants, preschoolers, school-age children, adolescents and adults with communication and swallowing disorders including articulation and phonology, fluency, voice, resonance, language, hearing, swallowing, cognition, pragmatics and social aspects, and communication modalities.
All artifacts should be accumulated in some type of binder/binders. On the first page have your name and a photograph. Your resume should be the next document in the binder and any letters of reference or positive comments that you may have should be included next. You may also want to include a copy of your transcript.Then, on the attached form, which serves as the Summary or Table of Contents for the Portfolio, list the sample work included in your Portfolio. In the Portfolio, place projects or clinical work such as diagnostic reports, progress reports, session activities, case studies or academic and clinical papers, abstracts or projects from your classes, seminars, laboratories and clinic that reflect your learning in each of the areas listed. Please try toreflect each of the age and diagnostic group areas as completely as possible including artifacts on prevention, assessment and intervention for each and every category that you have been exposed to throughout your academic or clinical work. Oftentimes the course syllabus for each of you classes will notate examples of items to be included in the portfolio but the responsibility is yours to see that you have representations of all you have learned.
All identifying information must be removed (eliminated, blackened out or taped over)from the portfolio including names and personal information for clients, client’s family members, professors, supervisors and fellow students.
The Portfolio will serve to show your acquisition of knowledge and skills in relevant clinical areas and serve as documentation for graduation, certification, licensure, and future career development and opportunities. It will be reviewed at the end of the Speech 628 seminar when you sign out your cases to the clinic director and again at final check out time with the clinic director for approval prior to graduation. Students will be reminded to continue choosing documents for inclusion in the Portfolio in their classes and clinical in-house seminars as well as in their Speech 631 and 632 pediatric and adult outside seminars. Students have brought their entire Portfolio or sections of the Portfolio to interviews at various sites to impress their interviewer and successfully be hired for sought after positions. At the end of the program, students will be asked for a copy of the Summary / Table of Contentsdocument for our records here in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at C. W. Post.
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