Dr. Karen Dudek-Brannan Ed.D. CCC-SLP/L is a young woman who came from a family filled with educators and felt that she wanted to go into Deaf Ed, which was her initial plan at first entering into Illinois State University. But before going into Deaf ed., while in the University, Dr. Karen heard about speech-language pathology and thought it sounded interesting and decided to switch her major and received not only her bachelors but her masters! While Dr. Karen was doing her masters she knew that there wasn’t a doctoral in speech-language pathology in ISU but she also knew that she loved writing and doing research so during her masters she decided to do a masters thesis because what was told was that if she wanted to get her doctorates and it
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Karen Dudek-Brannan received her masters in 2004 in speech-language pathology from Illinois State University she started working. Dr. Karen Dudek-Brannan did not feel that looking for a job was difficult. Dr. Karen Dudek-Brannan had her mindset on keeping her options open on what work setting she would want to work. Of course Dr. Karen Dudek-Brannan liked a setting more than the other when she got of school, but she really didn’t know what she liked or disliked. So Dr. Karen Dudek-Brannan ended up applying to a hospital, where she knew that they were looking for more experience, and schools. Dr. Karen Dudek-Brannan landed a job in a school setting with a K-5 population. According to Dr. Karen Dudek-Brannan’s blog and as reported, Dr. Karen Dudek-Brannan works in the school setting and if the child needs more help she visits the child at home which she refers it as private practice, she also works as a substitute for nursing …show more content…
Karen Dudek-Brannan does her therapy in a small group most of the times, sometimes she works with her clients alone but it just depends on the needs of the client. Because the speech-language pathologist works in a small group, she has difficulty in collecting data, which is one of her weaknesses. Dr. Karen Dudek-Brannan doesn’t collect data every single session. The school asks for the speech language pathologist to collect data at least 4 times every year, but as a speech-language pathologist she feels that in order to make a good judgment that she collects data more than the required amount. The type of activities the speech-language pathologist uses depends on what type of clients she has. The type of framework the clinician likes to use is framework of “I do it, we do it, you do it.” For the types of reinforces, Dr. Karen Dudek-Brannan doesn’t like to use too many externals such as games because she feels that if she gives too many externals there’s not a real motivation to learning just to play the game and if you take the game away then there wont be any more motivation, so overall the speech-language pathologist likes to use more internal types of
Karen Dudek-Brannan received her masters in 2004 in speech-language pathology from Illinois State University she started working. Dr. Karen Dudek-Brannan did not feel that looking for a job was difficult. Dr. Karen Dudek-Brannan had her mindset on keeping her options open on what work setting she would want to work. Of course Dr. Karen Dudek-Brannan liked a setting more than the other when she got of school, but she really didn’t know what she liked or disliked. So Dr. Karen Dudek-Brannan ended up applying to a hospital, where she knew that they were looking for more experience, and schools. Dr. Karen Dudek-Brannan landed a job in a school setting with a K-5 population. According to Dr. Karen Dudek-Brannan’s blog and as reported, Dr. Karen Dudek-Brannan works in the school setting and if the child needs more help she visits the child at home which she refers it as private practice, she also works as a substitute for nursing …show more content…
Karen Dudek-Brannan does her therapy in a small group most of the times, sometimes she works with her clients alone but it just depends on the needs of the client. Because the speech-language pathologist works in a small group, she has difficulty in collecting data, which is one of her weaknesses. Dr. Karen Dudek-Brannan doesn’t collect data every single session. The school asks for the speech language pathologist to collect data at least 4 times every year, but as a speech-language pathologist she feels that in order to make a good judgment that she collects data more than the required amount. The type of activities the speech-language pathologist uses depends on what type of clients she has. The type of framework the clinician likes to use is framework of “I do it, we do it, you do it.” For the types of reinforces, Dr. Karen Dudek-Brannan doesn’t like to use too many externals such as games because she feels that if she gives too many externals there’s not a real motivation to learning just to play the game and if you take the game away then there wont be any more motivation, so overall the speech-language pathologist likes to use more internal types of