University of Nebraska Kearney

Communication Disorders Questionnaire for Graduates of the UNK Program in Communication Disorders

1. Degree(s) earned at the University of Nebraska at Kearney

   _____ B.S. in Communication Disorders         Date: ______

   _____ M.S. in Speech/Language Pathology   Date: ______

2. Current Employment Site(s): If you are employed in more than one setting, please indicate approximately how much time you spend in each setting.

   ______ 1) Public Schools

   ______ 2) Special Schools (Deal with special populations such as hearing impairment, developmental disabilities, etc.)

   ______ 3) General/Acute Care Hospital

   ______ 4) Home Health

   ______ 5) V.A. Hospital

   ______ 6) College or University

   ______ 7) Private Practice

   ______ 8) Rehabilitation Hospital or Clinic

   ______ 9) State or Local Health Department

   ______ 10) Other Setting (Please specify)________________________________

   ______ 11) Not currently employed

   Do you work full time? _______ Or part time? ______

   If part time, hours per week ___________

3. Population you serve:

   1. Indicate percent of time you spend with each age group:

      ______ 1) 0-4 years (infant through preschool)

      ______ 2) 5-12 years

      ______ 3) 13-18 years

      ______ 4) 18-50 years

      ______ 5) Over 50 years

   2. Indicate percent of time you spend with each of the following groups of clients:

      ______ 1) Asian American

      ______ 2) African American

      ______ 3) Native American

      ______ 4) Hispanic-Latino

      ______ 5) Pacific Islander

      ______ 6) Caucasian

      ______ 7) Other (Please specify) ________________________ _______________________

4. Types of activities engaged in (Estimate percent of time you spend in each activity in a typical week)

   ______ 1) Diagnostic Evaluations - Hearing

   ______ 2) Diagnostic Evaluations - Speech and Language

   ______ 3) Treatment of Speech Disorders (Articulation, Voice, Fluency)

   ______ 4) Treatment of Language Disorders

   ______ 5) Cognitive Rehabilitation

   ______ 6) Assessment of Swallowing Disorders

   ______ 7) Treatment of Swallowing Disorders

   ______ 8) Aural Rehabilitation

   ______ 9) Administration

   ______ 10) College/University Teaching

   ______ 11) Supervision of CFY Assistants

   ______ 12) Inservice Training

   ______ 13) Counseling

   ______ 14) Research

   ______ 15) Other (Please describe) _________________________
    
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5. Average weekly caseload (number of individual clients)

   ______ 1) Assessment

   ______ 2) Treatment

   ______ 3) Number of Classroom Interventions/Week

   ______ 4) Number of Adult Treatment Sessions/Week

6. ______ Typical number of hours spent in travel per week during work hours
7. ASHA Certification

   ______ 1) Speech/Language Pathology

   ______ 2) Audiology

   ______ 3) Currently in CFY

   ______ 4) None

8. State License

   ______ Yes
    
   (State in which you are employed __________________________________)

   ______ No</<BR /> 

9. If you were starting school again, would you apply for admission to the University of Nebraska at Kearney program? If not, why not?
    
    
    
    
    
10. Considering all aspects, were you completely satisfied with your preparation for your profession? If not, which aspects would you improve and how?
     
     
     
     
     
11. Did you have sufficient opportunity to present problems, complaints, or suggestions to the instructional staff? If not, what hampered you in these efforts?
     
     
     
     
     
12. Do you believe that your clinical practicum prepared you for your profession? Did the supervisors spend sufficient time observing and guiding your clinical practicum? If not, what do you believe accounted for their lack of availability?
     
     
     
     
     
13. Do you believe the counseling that the program provided was adequate? If not, what would you suggest be done to improve this situation?
     
     
     
     
     
14. Which academic/clinical areas do you feel most/least prepared in? What do you believe accounts for the difference? What steps would you recommend be taken to reduce this discrepancy?
     
     
     
     
     
15. A. Was your academic/clinical education adequate to prepare you to work with the ethnic populations you serve. If not, please elaborate.
     
    
     
     
     
     

    B. What academic information or clinical experience would have helped you better serve these populations?

    
     
     
     
     
     
16. Generally, do you believe that most of what you learned was relevant to clinical work? If not, why not? What could be done to improve the curriculum so that it is more relevant?
     
     
     
     
     
17. What courses in the program have proven to be the most/least beneficial? Please list and explain why.
     
     
     
     
     
18. Given the opportunity, what would you have deleted from your academic program? Why?
     
     
     
     
     
19. Given the opportunity, what would you have added to your academic program? Why?