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Placement of graduate student clinicians in medical environments continues to serve as an ongoing challenge for many universities. This article addresses five questions, proposed by clinical supervisors, with focus on maintaining productivity while a student is present. Specific emphasis is given to preparations that can occur before the student arrives at the practicum location. The authors provide practical suggestions and templates in the appendices.

Silent-center (SC) syllables are consonant-vowel-consonant syllables with the steady-state vowel portion excised from them. These syllables are appealing for research of stop-consonants because they retain the complexity, brevity, and rapid changes inherent in formant transitions while presumably eliminating temporal masking by the vowel. However, questions exist as to whether or not SC syllables are processed in the same manner as their full-vowel (FV) counterparts (i.e. are they processed as speech units or as sounds?). Data is reviewed from a series of experiments which examined listeners discrimination, labeling, and response time for synthesized consonant-vowel-consonant syllables in FV and SC conditions. Results from 3 experiments with typical listeners reveal that: (1) discrimination is significantly better in the SC condition; (2) consonant labeling on a /bab/ to /dad/ continuum is poorer in the SC condition and is significantly poorer at the category boundary; (3) discrimination response-time (RT) is significantly shorter in the SC condition. Labeling and discrimination results reveal that listeners processed the stop-consonants in these SC syllables in a less-categorical manner than in the FV syllables. Taken together with significantly different response-times, these results may indicate that listeners utilize a different mode of processing for SC syllables.

Hiring and working alongside the millennial worker has been a popular topic in recent press. Millennials are those who were born between the years of 1980 and 2000 and who are typically “new” to the professions of audiology and speech-language pathology. This article provides a brief description of different generations in the workforce and a detailed discussion of the millennial applicant. Tips for interviewing these applicants are shared, with an emphasis on common pitfalls and considerations in their job-seeking. Aspects unique to the millennial applicant are discussed in order to assist the new hiring manager so that a good fit between applicant and organization may be found.