Mentored 2 Mentor

This project focuses on training Clinical Audiology Doctoral students (AuD) to be clinically certified supervisors upon entering the field post-graduation. According to the American Speech-Hearing Association (ASHA), Texas ranks 48 out of 50 states for the number of clinically certified audiologists who are needed to supervise doctoral students in order for those students to have ASHA-approved hours (https://www.asha.org/siteassets/surveys/audiologist-and-slp-to-populati…). This illustrates a clear need to prepare future audiologists during their AuD education for clinical certification upon entering the field. We aim to satisfy this need through a mentoring initiative that will affect outcomes at national, city (Austin), and university levels by providing audiology doctoral students with clinical supervisory experience and undergraduate students with hands-on clinical experience.