Registration for Spring semester begins November 4th for returning students and November 11th for new students.

Accruing Clinical Clock Hours

General Principles

Target a minimum of 90 clock hours per semester.
- If you do not meet the 90 clinical clock hour target minimum, you will need to accrue more hours than the target minimum in subsequent semesters.
- On a case-by-case basis, there may be other options to accrue hours, including: Simucase as a supplement, brief extension of placement, etc.
- If you meet or exceed the 90 clinical clock hours before the end of the semester, you are still required to complete the placement in full, as indicated on your student/supervisor contract, to gain a meaningful and robust clinical experience.
Overall, you must accrue a total minimum of 375 direct clinical clock hours to graduate from the program.
- This is an ASHA guideline - it has not changed despite COVID-19.

Supervision

Per ASHA guidelines students must be supervised a minimum of 25% of the time for both diagnostics/assessment and for treatment. This is considered a minimum and we recommend and inform the supervisors that students should be supervised closer to 100% of the time at the beginning of the semester and pull back on supervision only when the student is demonstrating competency, skills, and confidence.
An SLP must be in the building at all times. You should not be conducting evaluations or treatment if your supervisor is not on-site.
Supervisors and students must engage in the placement using the same modality. In other words, either both the student and supervisor are onsite and in-person or both the student and supervisor are participating in a telepractice session. Supervisors can not supervise students remotely, while the student is onsite and in person.

Clinical Clock Hours: Criteria and Examples

Questions about Undergraduate Hours

Many of our students come into the program having accrued clinical clock hours as part of undergraduate coursework.

If you have adequate documentation, you can count up to 50 hours toward ASHA's overall 375 requirement from undergraduate work. Documentation of these clock hours must indicate that the hours were completed through a program or course of study. Documentation should include hours logs, transcripts, or similar. Documentation should also include institution letterhead and must be signed by an SLP with an ASHA number and credentials indicated.

If you think this applies to you, this documentation should be submitted to placement_ops@emerson.edu for review.

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