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Graduate-level leadership training for speech-language pathologists: perceptions, attitudes, and potential effect on career
Get PDFThe aim of this study is to determine how a perceived lack of leadership training at the graduate level contributes to inadequate preparedness for the clinical, professional, and supervisory leadership roles professionals hold within the field of speech-language pathology (Kummer, 2017). More specifically, this study will seek to identify current leadership concerns of practicing SLPs, exploring whether and/or how lack of leadership training has affected their professional growth or career. The information can serve to guide the development of leadership training opportunities in speech-language pathology graduate programs. This descriptive, non-experimental study utilized purposive sampling of speech-language pathologists licensed in the states of Ohio and West Virginia. An online survey was created using Qualtrics® and sent to participants via email addresses gathered from state licensing boards to ensure a diverse sample of speech-language pathologists working in a variety of settings. The findings of this study indicate that SLP’s feel unprepared for the leadership roles required of their career. Furthermore, results indicate that SLPs are required to demonstrate leaderships skills early in their career, placing the SLP at a disadvantage for career advancement and promotion
Girl Scouts of Black Diamond Council
No full textGirl Scouts working on a badge during Girl Scout Badge College, December 16, 2023, on the Marshall University, Huntington campus.https://mds.marshall.edu/bd_girl_scout_badge_college_2023/1004/thumbnail.jp
Cultural Barriers Faced by International Student Athletes
No full textThe purpose of the research is to identify the cultural barriers faced by international student athletes and gather in what ways they can preserve or integrate their culture within their school and sports environment. In this study, we will learn the challenges international students face on and off the field and how they have navigated these challenges to facilitate a better, more tailored effort to improve international student athletes’ experiences on campus.
Many college student-athletes are international students that have come to the United States for better opportunities for school and sports. International students typically leave their families and travel to a school in the United States on their own. This yields an inevitable culture shock as the individual must adapt to not only the American culture, but the American college culture, and further American college sports culture. This area of research will explore the experiences of these international student athletes and the varying culture barriers they have faced. Further, this research will help identify ways that student athletes can preserve and/or integrate their native culture into their new environment. By gaining the thoughts, experiences, and feelings of this group, this can contribute to existing research on how to create a more equitable and unifying environment in college sports.
Participants will complete a one-time survey via Qualtrics that will be sent via email. Surveys will be conducted anonymously. The survey will consist of twelve questions and will highlight their thoughts, experiences, and feelings as an international student athlete.
There are no anticipated risks for this study. However, if a question is uncomfortable or stressful, you can always refuse to answer or skip a question.
This research may benefit other or future international student athletes or students to understand the lived experience of being away from home and living in the United States. Participants may gain satisfaction by contributing ideas on how to better integrate one’s culture into their environment. Participants may benefit personally from sharing their experiences to help future internationals overcome cultural barriers
Spain\u27s Golden Age and its Cultural Implication\u27s
No full textThe Spanish Golden age -which encompasses the Renaissance and Baroque periods- is a time when many artforms, especially literature, began to evolve. Encompassing new ideas and perspectives on life. This analysis discusses famous literary works from this period in history and how the ideas of the Renaissance spread and influenced the development of culture and intellect in Spain. The Italian Renaissance began in the 14th Century due to increased interaction between cultures, the emergence of humanism and Neoplatonism, and the initiation of new ideas and perspectives. Once Alfonso V of Aragon conquered the kingdom of Naples on the Italian Peninsula, it was quickly reformed into a literary and cultural center. Cultured Spaniards would travel to this area to learn the latest trends and be acquitted with scholars who were then invited back to Spain. From exposure to Italy, the ideas and themes of the Renaissance spread to Spain. Additionally, Christopher Columbus’s discovery that the world was much larger than Europeans previously believed led to Spanish expansion and growth in fortune due to natural resources and indigenous labor. Altogether fueling a radical shift in thought, language, literature, art, and perspective. Relevance pertains to understanding how Spain’s Golden age rapidly influenced the people and their culture and how this may help people today in further undergoing development, introspection and enlightenment
The Women of Owen Clinic Institute and Their Impact on Rural Mental Health
No full textThe mid-1900s was a pivotal moment in reforming mental health treatment and care in American Psychiatry. This movement becomes particularly clear when examining the championing work of two women, Dr. Thelma V. Owen and Dr. M. G. Stemmermann, at a rural mental health facility located in Huntington, WV: Owen Clinic Institute. My research seeks to connect their works, both published and unpublished, to the anonymous writings of their patients to convey a full perspective on the stigma of treatment and mental illness at the time and how the Clinic utilized “home-like care” as opposed to traditional state hospitals of the time. My research also sheds light on the specific hardships they faced in their work simply because they were women in their field.
By utilizing the 14 volumes of the Longview newsletter written by the patients of Owen Clinic Institute from Marshall’s Special Collections, my research will expand the previous work by giving a unique insight into patient life, treatment styles, and rural community beliefs regarding mental illness at the time. Combined with the independently published work of Dr. Owen and Dr. Stemmermann, Trends in Psychiatry (vol. 1-3), containing their various speeches and works identifying the lacking mental health care in the region and how they proposed to change it, I can give both sides of the research and convey the effects of their implemented treatment and activism. This paper will interest students and faculty from many disciplines, including history, psychology, and women’s and gender studies
The Morning Ritual
No full textThe Morning Ritual is an original short film by Wesley Kite that explores the idea of living to a strict schedule. More so, what happens when that schedule is broken or changes. Although the content of the film is quite simple, the deeper meanings it holds can weigh heavy on the mind and heart. What’s your ritual? Are you stuck in your ways? What’s holding you back that you can’t let go of yet?
https://youtu.be/9RKtkSOf-0
Quantifiable Effect of Handedness on Hemifacial Expression
No full textHemispheric lateralization is a brain organization principle suggesting specific functions are processed primarily by one cerebral hemisphere or the other. Current theories assume that lateralized brain is an organized brain. In most individuals, emotional processes are primarily controlled by the right cerebral hemisphere. There is considerable evidence to support this using various methodological approaches; this study proposes to exploit one of the most classically described outputs of emotion: facial expressions.
Research on facial expression has demonstrated that emotion is expressed more intensely in the left hemiface. Given that motor control is contralateral, emotion centers have been found to reside in the right cerebral hemisphere. Prior research on lateralization has been conducted exclusively on right-handed individuals. The exclusion of left-handed participants makes the organization of basic processes unclear, and thus no assumption can be made based on current theories of lateralization. Further investigation into the outputs of emotional processing of these individuals will offer insight into the development and organization of left-handed individuals’ brains. Not only is this the first examination of emotion processes and hemispheric lateralization as it relates to facial expression, but this is the first attempt to quantitatively measure facial expression intensity as it relates to hemispheric lateralization