Announcements and Meetings

This section of the site is intended to keep our students up-to-date on what's going on in our department.

Recent Announcements
Student Meetings
ENMU CDIS Invited Speakers Program

Recent Announcements

• Practicum Supervisor Evaluations - Fall 2011:
  Rate your practicum supervisor! All students completing practicum or externship in the fall both on and off campus who are enrolled in CDIS 501, 502, 503, 589, or 593 are invited to provide the Program with feedback.
  
  All surveys are confidential.  Data will not be retrieved until final grades have been posted.  The survey has 10 questions and is untimed.  You may move forward and backward in the survey at will. Please submit a separate evaluation for each practicum supervisor and practicum setting. This survey will open after client conferences and will close on January 31, 2012. Click here to rate your supervisor!

Scheduled Student Meetings

The next Annual Graduate Student Meeting will occur on campus July 30 and July 31. Students must be present both days.  Students are additionally required to be on campus for CPR training on August 1. Please mark your calendars now. These meetings are mandatory. July 30-31 meetings will take place in the Sandia Room of the Campus Union Building. August 1 CPR training will occur in Greyhound arena.

Your handbooks are available online.

There will be weekly Graduate Assistant Meetings for the Fall semester in Lea Hall, Computer Lab at 9 am. These meetings are mandatory for all GAs.

Clinical meetings for Fall 2012 will occur as announced at the ENMU Outreach Center.

ENMU CDIS Invited Speakers Program

The CDIS Department is pleased to announce the continuation of our Invited Speakers Program once again. Presentations currently scheduled are listed below. Please check back often for new dates and workshop topics.

2011-2012:

• Mr. Toby Stephan, Hanen’s US Representative and a Hanen Instructor, will be presenting on the Hanen approach (November 3rd in the Pecos Room at 3:30 to 6:00). Please see this flyer for details!
• The program will cover the following:
  • Introduction to the family-centered, evidence-based Hanen approach to early language intervention and its relation to IDEA regulations and “best practice”
  • Description and video demonstration of It Takes Two to Talk ® responsive interaction strategies (for use in general clinical practice)
  • Introduction to principles of adult education and their application to helping parents learn interaction strategies in a group session
  • Interactive simulation of the Hanen method of teaching responsive interaction strategies to parents
  • Coaching and videotaping with feedback in one-to-one consultations – guidelines for facilitating parents' consistent application of interaction strategies
  • Summary of the efficacy studies on It Takes Two to Talk ® –  The Hanen Program ® for Parents

  We're delighted that Mr. Stephan will be presenting to us once more. Welcome back Toby!

All presentations are provided free of charge to ENMU graduate and undergraduate students, speech-language pathologists, audiologists, special educators, clients/families, and other interested parties unless otherwise specified. Please plan on attending these exciting and informative sessions!

Recurring Student Meetings (Scheduled PRN)

• ENMU regularly offers FREE CPR training for students and faculty. ALL off campus clinicians are required to have CPR training, so if you are going to be off campus this upcoming semester, be sure to make plans to complete this.  Ginger Creighton will be conducting the training and she can train up to 12 people at a time.  Please e-mail Ms. Linda Valenti at Linda.Valenti@enmu.edu ASAP if you need initial certification or renewal.

• The next preparatory workshop for the National Examination in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology (NESPA) will occur in November of 2011. Students who have not yet completed this training but who are planning to take the NESPA in the Spring of 2012 should contact Dr. Suzanne Swift for information. Workshop completion is mandatory for all students prior to sitting for the NESPA. This workshop will be presented online.