Increasing Student Confidence With Medically Complex Infants Through Simulation: A Mixed Methods Investigation.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare student knowledge and confidence, related to the assessment and management of oral feeding readiness in medically complex infants, following a written case study versus a high-fidelity human patient simulation (HPS).

Method: A sequential, two-phase, embedded mixed methods design was conducted. Participants were two sequential cohorts of second-year speech-language pathology graduate students enrolled in a didactic Pediatric Dysphagia course.

Integrating Simulations Into Communication Sciences and Disorders Clinical Curriculum: Impact of Student Perceptions.

Purpose The purpose of this mixed methods study was to examine student perceptions of computer-based simulation and to identify components of the simulation experience that were valued by the students. The aim of this study was to inform the development of effective approaches to integrating simulation into the speech-language pathology graduate curriculum. Method Participants were 1st-year graduate students in a residential, speech-language pathology master's program ( N = 29).