An improvement project for the SPAA Resource Room : can you hear us now?

Abstract

For this honors thesis project a total of 48 participants completed a survey of the materials room at the Ball State University Speech-Language and Hearing clinic. The participants included undergraduate and graduate clinicians from the Speech Pathology and Audiology Department, as well as, supervisors from the clinic. By collecting this data, I hoped to acknowledge and alleviate some of the financial burden for student clinicians. The survey was also meant to identify the time clinicians spent making additional therapy materials when the appropriate resources were not available in the resource room. These results are intended to be useful for future funding decisions concerning the materials room, so that the most effective and in demand resources are purchased. The distributed survey gave students a chance to express any changes or additions they would like to see made to the materials room. The intended effect ofthis project was to improve and update the materials room for future student use.