Gwynedd Mercy University
AY2024-2025 Graduate Academic Catalog
Compliance Requirements and Clearances : Occupational therapy students must be compliant with all clearance and health and wellness requirements . At the onset of the Program , students will be sent information and instructions for access to the Complio system . Clearance and health and wellness requirements are annual , so they will need to be redone the following year to remain in compliance . Failure to adhere to the required compliance deadlines may result in course grade deductions and disapproval to register for the subsequent Program term . Clearance and health and wellness requirements for the Entrylevel Master of Science in Occupational Therapy Program include PA State Police background check , PA child abuse clearance , FBI fingerprints , completion of Act 126 — Child Abuse Recognition and Reporting Training ”
( Please note that this is a 3-hour online training certificate and NOT the PA child abuse clearance , American Heart Association Heart Saver First Aid , CPR , AED Certification ( Please note that no exceptions will be made for any other certification ), Medical history / physical examination , Vaccinations that include MMR , Varicella , Hepatitis B , Tdap , Tuberculosis , Drug Screening , Flu Shot , and Meningitis . An adverse background check can restrict a student ’ s ability to access fieldwork , affect a graduate ’ s ability to sit for the NBCOT ® certification examination , or attain state licensure as an occupational therapist .
Professional Disposition and Conduct : Students are required to adhere to standards of professional behavior . Professional standards include promptness , collaboration , cooperation , dedication to learning , presenting oneself appropriately , proper oral and written communication , and ethical behavior . Professional behavior includes but not limited to attendance ; arrival to class on time , active listening ; punctuality ; no instant messaging , emailing , social internet browsing , or phone activity ( phone may stay on vibrate mode in case of emergency notification ). Students are expected to email the course instructor if they miss a class . If a student wants to record a class session or transmit a class session to another student ( audio or video ), permission from the course instructor is required . It is a student conduct violation to download recorded lectures , labs , and meetings to a computer , upload them to the internet , or otherwise share , transmit or publish such recordings without the prior written consent of all participants ( unless the professor has agreed in writing to such action and the recording is a recording of the professor ’ s class ). Course instructors reserve the right to deduct up to 5 points off the student ’ s final course grade for violation ( s ) of professional standards or behaviors . Students will be notified in writing if an unprofessional act was identified as well as the amount of deduction from the students ’ final grade .
Testing Requirements : Exam Soft testing software is required for testing in some courses . Technology Requirements : Students must have a laptop with camera capability for all portions of the academic and fieldwork portions of the Program . All students are provided with the university ’ s laptop specifications prior to the start of the program .
SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY PREREQUISITE ( SLPP ) PROGRAM
Program Name : Speech-Language Pathology Prerequisite ( SLPP ) Program Accreditation : N / A Program Type : Term , Program Modality : Online , Asynchronous with occasional optional synchronous classes and events Program Coordinator : Karen A . Fallon , Ph . D ., CCC-SLP
Description : The Speech-Language Pathology Prerequisite ( SLPP ) program is a post-baccalaureate course sequence designed to prepare students who have earned bachelor ’ s degrees in fields other than Speech-Language Pathology ( SLP )/ Communication Disorders to apply for admission to graduate speech- language pathology ( SLP ) programs . This post-baccalaureate program is not a degree program , but rather , a series of upper-level , undergraduate courses required by most SLP Master ’ s programs for
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