Practice prompts based on occupational tasks
These Applyace practice prompts use O*NET tasks for speech-language pathologists. They are not reported employer questions. If you have not done a task, explain your approach and learning needs instead of inventing experience.
1. Evaluate hearing or speech and language test results, barium swallow results, or medical or background information to diagnose and plan treatment for speech, language, fluency, voice, or swallowing disorders.
Describe a real example of this task. What was your responsibility, and what happened?
2. Write reports and maintain proper documentation of information, such as client Medicaid or billing records or caseload activities, including the initial evaluation, treatment, progress, and discharge of clients.
How did you decide which approach or tools to use? Explain the tradeoffs.
3. Monitor patients' progress and adjust treatments accordingly.
What could go wrong during this task? Describe how you would check your work.
4. Develop or implement treatment plans for problems such as stuttering, delayed language, swallowing disorders, or inappropriate pitch or harsh voice problems, based on own assessments and recommendations of physicians, psychologists, or social workers.
Explain a time you coordinated this work with someone else. How did you communicate?
5. Administer hearing or speech and language evaluations, tests, or examinations to patients to collect information on type and degree of impairments, using written or oral tests or special instruments.
How would you handle an unfamiliar part of this task? Identify what you would need to learn.
6. Educate patients and family members about various topics, such as communication techniques or strategies to cope with or to avoid personal misunderstandings.
What evidence would show this task was completed successfully?
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Evaluate hearing or speech and language test results, barium swallow results, or medical or background information to diagnose and plan treatment for speech, language, fluency, voice, or swallowing disorders.
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Questions to ask the interviewer
- Which of these occupational tasks takes the most time on your team?
- How do you measure success in the first three months?
- Which tools, training and support are available for this role?
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