Speech Therapy Clinical Fellowship
Overview:
Brooks Rehabilitation offers a year-long Speech Language Pathology fellowship. Brooks is proud to provide an opportunity for clinical fellows to gain experience working with multiple diagnoses including; Spinal Cord Injury, Brain Injury and Stroke. The CF Program accepts approximately one to three fellows per year who will have an opportunity to work in one of three settings including inpatient rehabilitation, acute care and skilled nursing.
Program Highlights:
• 100 hours of 1:1 mentoring
• 6 observation/shadow days throughout our system of care
• Full-time benefits
• Funding of ASHA certification and membership upon completion of the fellowship year
Program Coordinator:
Danielle Erdman
MS, CCC-SLP, CBIST
Danielle.Erdman@brooksrehab.org
Application Process
- Application due date: Wednesday, March 31st, 2021 @ 11:59 PM
- All qualified and competitive applicants will be invited to complete a one-way video interview, conducted between April 1-11, 2021.
- Participants must have access to a computer with a webcam and internet access in order to successfully complete the one-way video interview. Details of the video interview, including instructions on how to access the system, will be sent to the applicants invited.
- Following the video review, qualified and competitive applicants will be invited to complete either a live two-way video or on-site interview on Thursday, April 22, 2021 or Friday, April 23, 2021
- Fellowship offers will be extended April 30, 2021.
Responsibilities
Before beginning the CF, and periodically throughout the CF experience, it is important that a Clinical Fellow ensures that their CF mentor(s) meet the required qualifications. For those who apply under the 2020 SLP standards, in order to count hours that have been earned on or after January 1, 2020, their mentoring SLP(s) must:
- hold a current CCC-SLP;
- have a minimum of 9 months of full-time (or its part-time equivalent) clinical experience after earning the CCC-SLP; and
- have completed a minimum of 2 hours of professional development in the area of supervision after earning the CCC-SLP
For more information and ASHA Clinical Fellowship requirements, please visit their website: