Summer Student Aides: The Best of the Best

Ms. Ann Nader coordinates the student workers who provide therapy for our Therapeutic Language Center's group language preschool classes, as well as those who work one-on-one in the TLC's autism program. She provided this update about the new group of aides coming on board for the summer:

"For the last few weeks, I've been working with getting the aides in place for our summer session. Around the semester transitions, we do a lot of work finding students, usually in psychology and speech language/communications to work in the Therapeutic Language Center. We seek student aides from LSU, Southern, and Southeastern, and we have a pretty comprehensive process in place before classes start up again. We're really dependent on these aides for the quality of service we provide, so they go through interviews with human resources as well as the therapy staff, reference and background checks, and are asked to observe group/individual therapy, and attend orientation training sessions. This week, we trained 30 aides to work with us for the summer, 17 of whom are new to BRSHF.


It's a lot of work to get them all trained and assigned, whether they're in groups or working individually with a child on the autism spectrum, but it's so exciting this time of year to be involved with the incoming aides! They are so energetic, eager to learn, and enthusiastic about the chance they have here to gain direct experience working with children. They really enjoy it and we just love having them around. Our clinic wouldn't be what it is without our student workers!"