Understanding & Making Progress

There has been up and down experiences in my internship. One thing I have learned thus far is that I am a person who likes to see and feel like I am a part of the finished product. There were times during the semester when I have felt I was not contributing anything concrete to the clinic, though I have open their eyes in how to market effectively to the UCF community and what avenues to take I was not seeing anything tangible. Everyone in the clinic have told me how pleased they are with the projects I have had a hand in, but yet with the semester and my internship drawing to a close I felt that a mark was not being left by me. But at the end of last week I final was given a project that will help me leave a lastly contribution to the clinic for possibly a few years.

In the last blog I stated that we were brainstorming ideas to help market World Voice Day and the Voice Clinic. We have already reserved tabling spots on campus for the event that will be headed by Communications Disorders Clinic’s undergraduate and graduate students. My job for the event is to design professional presentation boards that will be used to promote the clinic on that week and for the future. There will be three boards in total, all with the same uniform design that could be made on either Microsoft PowerPoint or Microsoft Publisher. These boards are intended to give an overview about the clinic, its mission and vision, their services, Outreach affiliations, research, contact info, and a section on how to become a speech pathologist at UCF. I have me work cut out for me but I am excited about the challenge in making sure the information is communicated in an attractive and effective manner.

Blog #6

This week in the clinic we were brainstorming ideas gearing to developing advertising campaign for the World Voice Day which will be held April 15^th. The clinic will be providing free voice evaluations and they what to make sure that UCF community is marketed to effectively. We are working on identifying locations on campus to table for the event, materials that will be sent to individuals on our mailing list, and a flyer to distribute on campus. Karen Guin the head of marketing for COHPA will be helping the clinic prepare a promotion packet for the event. And when everything is ready it will be my duty to help bridge the gap between the clinic, UCF community, and the local area. That is about all I have to report this there was nothing really more than us brainstorming.

Until next week, hopefully things will pick up.

Blog #5

This week at my internship I had the assignment of helping create a packet that will be used to persuade physicians to refer patients/clients to be participants in a program that will be offered by the Communications Disorders Clinic in the summer. The Intensive Aphasia Program is one of the many services that are offered by the clinic. The last time the program was in operation was in the summer of 2008. The Aphasia program is designed to help stroke victims become more engaged and speaking through intensive sessions conducted over a short period of time.

For the packet me and my partner in th clinic had to come up with a page geared to inform and attract physicians to become a partner with the Aphsia program, the second page focused towards informing the client about the disorder and providing insight into why the program will be of great benefit for them if they chose to participate, the third page was a synopsis of the design of the program and what Dr. Whiteside envisions for the program in the future, and the last page consists of the application into the program.

Dr. Whiteside will be taking the packet around to local doctor's offices next week to promote the program.