Clinical observation

I tried to be alert yet doze over a boring book. It was almost 10.00 o’clock in the morning of 20^th of December and there was still no sign of a patient. As a second year student of Speech Pathology, I have the opportunity to observe the condition of third year senior dealing with the patients. It was the first clinical session after Hari Raya holidays.

Almost moments after I came back from the toilet, I took a magazine from the bookshelf of the clinical room and read it loudly in the observation room since there was nobody inside there. That was the things I had done before the patients came.

As the time flies, the first patient came at 11.30am. We all were getting ready for our tasks. The senior who is the student clinician and her assistant entered the therapy room, so then we started our observation on the therapy session.

The patient was quite cooperative while the whole session was well organized. Under the support of the patient’s mum, the child had made the session well controlled. The child blossomed under the senior constant encouragement for doing the arranged activities with the modeling of his mother. The senior spent hour completely to carry out the therapy with the child.

In fact, I enjoyed the smile of those children patients every time. Although they are intelligible challenged children, the offered very pleasant smile and lovely facial expression which are refreshing change from their condition. What those children lack of is a normal childhood development; they live up with the lack of interaction with this society.

Pretty soon, the next patient came with his mother and brother. After he entered the therapy room, he discovered that his brother did not follow him to enter the room together. As the student clinician was talking with the patient’s mum, the patient leave the room to find his brother. Soon, they entered the room together. I was find out the patient loved to be together with his brother and he was enjoyed the arranged activities happily with the modeling of his mum and brother.

The things had worked out well during the whole observation.