Innovative Learning Technologies – Speech-Language Pathology (SLP) Program at USAHS
Speech-Language Pathology students at the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences (USAHS) gain hands-on experience with advanced clinical technology, including flexible endoscopy practice on a model head, AAC (augmentative and alternative communication) devices, and audiometer readings. This equipment gives students direct, practical exposure to tools they’ll use throughout their careers.
Faculty highlight the program’s simulated clinical facilities, designed to mirror real-world settings students will encounter after graduation, from hospital wards and skilled nursing facilities to outpatient clinics and rehab gyms. This hands-on exposure gives students valuable baseline knowledge of clinical instrumentation before they ever step into the field.
This blend of technology and simulated clinical environments reflects USAHS’s broader approach to SLP education, which combines online coursework with in-person residencies to build clinical skills that translate directly into real-world speech-language pathology practice.
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Innovative Learning Technologies – Speech-Language Pathology (SLP) Program at USAHS
[00:00:00] Christine Fiestas (SLP Faculty): We have phenomenal facilities here at the university. Students will have access to a variety of different types of technology, instrumentation. [00:00:10] Meghan Savage (SLP Programs): We have a flexible endoscope with a camera on the end, and our students get hands-on practice scoping a model head, which is a really great hands-on experience that not all programs offer that opportunity for students. [00:00:25] Claryssa Montgomery (SLP Faculty): Hands-on practice with AAC devices, doing audiometer readings. [00:00:29] Jonathan G. (SLP Student): I also really like the facility here. It is designed to mimic the hospital setting, a skilled nursing facility, outpatient facilities. [00:00:39] Halah Alateeq (SLP Faculty): Clinical wards, rehab gyms that really simulate some of the facilities that they will see. [00:00:45] Claryssa Montgomery (SLP Faculty): They have this really unique opportunity to have some baseline knowledge of how this instrumentation works before they go out into the field.
