Brazos Valley Rehabilitation Center

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Brazos Valley Rehabilitation Center

• 1318 Memorial Dr.
• Bryan, TX 77802

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Goals of the Agency

• Evaluate clients to determine needs
• Administer therapy if necessary
• Speech Pathology
• Occupational Therapy
• Physical Therapy

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Dress

• You cant wear jeans, t-shirts or shorts
• You should wear slacks and a nice shirt
• This is a new rule

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Application Process

• Turn in picture of self
• Write one or two paragraphs about why you want to
  volunteer there
• Physical therapy department is hardest to get
  into because many people want to volunteer there
• I was in the speech department, which has less
  volunteers
• Hours are flexible for the speech department

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What I Did

• I helped type up evaluations and sent them to the
  patients and faxed them to the doctors
• There were a lot of them because they evaluate
  patients every 6-months.
• I helped with the patients
• I was in the speech department sot here was no
  equipment to work with
• There were mostly children getting speech therapy
  
• Therapists would play games with them to help
  keep their attention, while getting them to say
  words.

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What I did Continued

• If you like to work with children then, this
  would be good for you
• Sometimes I just watched them give therapy.
• Especially interesting to see how they worked
  with children who stuttered
• I got to go see hippotherapy
• This is therapy on a horse
• Riding on the horse is supposed to be therapeutic

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Benefits

• This will give me a good reference for graduate
  school or for future jobs
• Good people experience
• Experience in working in an office setting
• Good to see what kind of disabilities are out
  there and what kinds of therapy are available
• Let me see just what a speech pathologist does