Rehabilitation Student Program

Fourth-year audiology externship

Children's offers a 12-month, full-time audiology extern position. Each student extern has a primary preceptor, but he will also have the opportunity to work with audiologists at our hospitals and outpatient offices.

Student externs can expect a comprehensive clinical experience in pediatric audiology, including:

• Inpatient and outpatient diagnostics
• Amplification
• Electrophysiology
• Auditory processing
• Cochlear implants

Students have the opportunity to rotate through our multidisciplinary clinics and programs, including:

• Ear, nose and throat (ENT)
• Craniofacial
• Hematology/oncology
• Inpatient Rehabilitation Program

The audiology intern position typically begins in June and is paid through a stipend. Students are expected to have health and liability insurance through their university and will receive no benefits through Children's.

Second- or third-year audiology internship

Children's offers eight- to 16-week semester rotations during the fall, spring and summer semesters. Students rotate through our two main hospitals and our neighborhood offices, and receive comprehensive experience in pediatric audiology.

Questions?

Contact us if you have questions about the audiology internship. You will get a response within five business days.

The music therapy internship in inpatient rehabilitation has been an established National Roster registered internship site with the American Music Therapy Association since 2012. Here at Children’s we accept music therapy internship students who have met the requirements outlined in the Music Therapy National Roster Internship Guidelines. These guidelines specify that the music therapy intern must have acquired all pre-internship competencies required by the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA), the AMTA approved college or university, and the internship before beginning the internship. If you are interested in pre-internship practicum placement, please see below.

Music therapy interns will complete specialized training on the Inpatient Rehabilitation Program working with patients from 0-21 years of age that are transferring from across the region and other hospital units into our program. This unit is approved by CARF with specialized pediatric inpatient rehabilitation for spinal cord injuries, traumatic and non-traumatic brain injuries, burns, cardiac, disorders of consciousness, hematology/oncology, and other neurological impairments/injuries. Interns will also have opportunities to observe and work alongside several of our other music therapist’s serving in other hospital service areas as available. Some of these other opportunities may include specialized music therapy services on the PICU, NICU, TICU, and cardiac service lines at our Scottish Rite and Egleston locations.

Applications may be submitted from June – November for the next year’s internship. If submitted outside of this date range the application will not be considered or reviewed. One student is selected per calendar year. Questions can be directed to Cori Snyder, Clinical Music Therapy Internship Director who will complete the review of applications, phone interviews, and onsite interview. Candidate selection will be made by December.

Questions?

For questions regarding an internship or practicum student training on the pediatric inpatient rehabilitation unit contact Cori Snyder, MM, LPMT, MT-BC (see below).

Please contact CHOA’s Lead Music Therapy Supervisor Cassi Crouse, MM, LPMT, MT-BC, regarding the status of other potential music therapy student training opportunities at Children’s at cassi.crouse@choa.org.

Complete our internship application

Complete our practicum student application

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite, CIRU
Attn: Cori Snyder, Music Therapy Internship Director
1001 Johnson Ferry Rd
Atlanta, GA 30342
cori.snyder@choa.org

Children's accepts Level I and Level II fieldwork placements in our acute rehabilitation, inpatient rehabilitation, day rehabilitation and outpatient rehabilitation settings. We prefer students in their second level 2 fieldwork for all inpatient settings. We encourage students with a strong interest in pursuing pediatrics after graduation to talk with the fieldwork coordinator at their school about the possibility of placement at Children’s.

The initial contact should come from the supervisor at the occupational therapy program.

Questions?

Contact us if you have questions about the occupational therapy fieldwork. You will get a response within five business days.

We accept final-year rotations in our acute rehabilitation, inpatient rehabilitation, day rehabilitation and outpatient rehabilitation settings. We prefer final rotations for students with a strong interest in pursuing a position in pediatrics after graduation.

The initial contact should come from the supervisor at the physical therapy program.

Questions?

Contact us if you have questions about the physical therapy internship. You will get a response within five business days.

Children’s accepts graduate-level interns from American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)-accredited programs that have completed all their required coursework. Applicants with prior clinical rotations are preferred. Clinical rotations are available in our acute rehabilitation, inpatient rehabilitation, day rehabilitation and outpatient rehabilitation settings.

The initial contact should come from the supervisor at the intern’s university program. Following that contact, an interview is required prior to placement. Phone interviews can be arranged for out-of-state interns.

Questions?

Contact us if you have questions about the speech-language pathology internship. You will get a response within five business days.

Children’s accepts physical therapy students for long-term clinical rotations. Spots are offered based on current census and clinical instructor availability. Our population includes pediatric and adolescent patients with orthopedic and sports-related injuries. Our average patient is between 8 and 18 years old. Interns are exposed to a wide variety of pediatric-specific diagnoses, as well as a wide variety of sports.

We strongly encourage students who have a sports background and are interested in orthopedics to consider our sports physical therapy internship as a final rotation placement.

Questions?

Contact us if you have questions about the sports physical therapy internship. You will get a response within five business days.