Observe
Students watch practising clinicians assess, reason and counsel before they carry out an assessment themselves.
Clinical exposure
Clinical training across all four years
Claverton students observe, assist and then manage supervised cases across all four years — culminating in a full-time clinical internship.
Why it matters
Employers in this profession hire on clinical hours and case exposure. A graduate who has managed supervised cases across four years enters the job market with a documented clinical log.
The training model
Four stages, in sequence
Clinical responsibility increases as assessed competence increases.
Assist
Under supervision, students assist with diagnostics and therapy sessions and become familiar with real case-loads.
Practise
Students progressively take on supervised assessment and management of their own cases, with structured feedback.
Internship
A full-time clinical year consolidates skill across the college clinics and partner sites.
The need
Why the programme requires clinical hours
RCI-aligned curricula pair theory with supervised practicum from the early semesters, and BASLP culminates in a full year of clinical work. That structure is not a Claverton preference — it is how the qualification is designed.
~63 million
Indians live with significant hearing impairment
WHO estimate, approximately 6.3% of the population
~10,000
Registered audiologists and speech-language pathologists in the country
For a population of 1.4 billion
~70
Institutions in India teach BASLP
Around 2,000 graduates a year, nationwide
Licensed
Only RCI-registered professionals may practise
Practice without registration is not permitted under the RCI Act, 1992.
Clinic and practice laboratories
Two separate places: one takes patients, one does not
The Rehabilitation Council of India requires both, and they do different jobs. The clinic sees members of the public. The practice laboratories are replicas of those clinical rooms, with the same instruments, where students learn the equipment and the test procedures first.
The clinic
Run by the Aashirwad Foundation of India Trust on the same site, and open to the public. Their cases, with consent and under supervision, are what students learn on.
The practice laboratories
Replicas of the clinical rooms, equipped the same way. Students learn the machines and the test procedures here. No patients are seen in them.
Step-free throughout
The site and the clinic are disability-access friendly.
A student meets the equipment before they meet a patient. The sequence is deliberate and it is the reason the two sets of rooms exist separately: practise the procedure in the laboratory, then carry it out in the clinic under a supervisor.
Coming to the clinic as a patient
The clinic is run by the Aashirwad Foundation of India Trust and is open to the public. The services offered, the charges and how to book an appointment are published here once confirmed.
To be announced
Where students train
The clinic, and the sites beyond it
Diagnostic audiology labs
Sound-treated rooms and audiological instrumentation for hands-on diagnostic training.
Speech & language therapy rooms
Calm, dedicated therapy spaces designed for one-to-one and paediatric sessions.
The clinic
A working clinic on the same site, run by the Aashirwad Foundation of India Trust and open to the public. Students observe and, from the second semester, assist there under direct supervision. Step-free throughout.
Clinical partners
Hospitals, ENT departments, implant centres and rehabilitation units where students complete postings and internship.
To be announced
Case exposure
The clinical population must be at least two patients per student per semester in each major area of study — child and adult language disorders, fluency, voice, speech sound disorders, dysphagia, hearing impairment, and hearing-related and vestibular disorders.
That is the floor set by the regulator. The number of cases a student actually handles is the most meaningful measure of a clinical programme, and worth asking any college for directly.
To be announced
The final year
A full year of supervised clinical work
The internship is mandatory: one academic year of ten months, split across semesters 7 and 8, beginning once a student has completed academic and clinical training up to the sixth semester.
Two rules govern this year. Students must spend at least one semester at an institute outside their own college, and every posting must be at an institution approved by the Rehabilitation Council of India. A graduate therefore leaves with supervised hours logged across more than one organisation.
HospitalsSpecial schools and educational centresAutism intervention centresCochlear implant centresAuditory-verbal therapy centresCerebral palsy centresLearning disability centresMother and child empowerment programmes
- Duration
- One academic year — ten months, spanning semesters 7 and 8
- Hours
- 600 supervised hours in speech-language pathology and 600 in audiology
- External posting
- At least one semester must be spent at an institute outside the parent institution
- Approved sites only
- Students may be posted only at institutions approved by the Rehabilitation Council of India
- Supervision
- By a speech-language pathologist and audiologist; in their absence, by a specialist from an allied field such as otolaryngology, neurology, mental health or paediatrics
- Records
- Every student maintains a log of clinical hours, statistics and work by institute, certified by the head of the host institution
- Attendance
- At least 90%. The internship is extended by the number of days a student falls short
- Assessment
- On attendance, performance in postings and log books. A posting scored below 40% must be repeated
- Certification
- Supervised clinical hours are recorded in the clinical competence certificate issued to the student
Source: Rehabilitation Council of India — B.ASLP Norms, Regulations & Curriculum Framework, effective from academic session 2024-25.
Campus visits
Visit the clinics before deciding
A campus visit shows more of a clinical programme than any brochure can.