It was not until I had walked into my phonetics class freshman year that I realized Speech Pathology was what I needed to do with my life. Walking into the class, I had no idea that it would spark a passion much greater than I had ever known before. My goal to obtain a higher degree in Speech-Pathology cannot be summarized into one reason, but rather of many based on all of my experiences thus far. I have known time and time again that speech pathology is the right career path for me, from learning the smallest unit of sound, to seeing my first split uvula, and even the pride I felt when hearing a person on the street talking, and understanding what was actually happening in their vocal folds at that moment. My aspiration to be a speech pathologist stems from the very need to understand more about communication. Speech Pathology is the gateway to this understanding. Through experiences in the field, I will obtain that knowledge. Throughout my time as an undergraduate in Speech-Pathology, I have been given many opportunities to explore the field and to weigh the options of my future.
Talking to other Speech Pathology students and faculty at NSSLHA meetings has encouraged me to explore many different populations and setting before following one path of interest. My search to find the perfect career path has led me to work at schools and to volunteer at assisted living facilities. In addition, taking Brain Science in my junior year influenced my interest in neurogenic disorders. This was the class that curved my desire to eventually help with research on Aphasia, conducted by one of the professors in the department, which I have been doing for about two years. Working with a large variety of populations, both children and adults, wit...
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...rent disorders that effect that population. This program gives me the opportunity to better foster that knowledge. I was ecstatic to find a school that had a compilation of everything of what I was looking for in a school. I have come a long way from where I started out four years ago in many different aspects of life, but there is so much to learn.
I hope that by attending the University of North Carolina at Greensboro I can learn from the people who have knowledge beyond my years. With more personal classes, hands-on experience, and multiple clinical options, I feel that this is where I am meant to be. I will work hard to be a worthy student for my professors and eventually become the Speech Pathologist I aspire to be. By learning from the faculty as well as my peers, I know I will be more than prepared to help people. That, after all, is all anyone can ask for.
As most people know speech and language issues would only happen with children just learning to talk and tennagers in middle school to high school. The reasoning behind this is because most people don’t correct their children’s speech when they are first learning due to the fact that the parents or grandparents think it is to cute to correct, which only hurts the children more th...
College football is one of the most exciting sports organizations in the sporting world. Not only is it thrilling on the field, but also off the field as well. This particular sport organization brings in a ton of money that benefits itself, as well as other sports organizations at the college level. There is a huge demand for success for this organization and if the standard of winning is not there, even for a year, anyone working for that particular school may lose their job. A job I aspire to have is being a college football coach. This job is extremely thrilling as well as displeasing compared to any other job in the organization. The spotlight is not only on the players, but also it is on you as a coach. It is very difficult to keep a job in this organization if as a coach you do not produce a winning record. College football may be the best sports organization to work in and also the worst at the same time.
Hegde, M. N. (2001). Pocketguide to assessment in speech-language pathology. (2nd ed., pp. 198-215). San Diego, CA: Singular Thomson Learning.
It can train me to be properly prepared with a college mindset instead of having that mindset that is still in high school. I can gain a bachelors, possibly a masters, degree as I go to college. Having a bachelors or masters degree gives me not just a sense of accomplishment by making my family proud, but also a feeling of accomplishment of how far I overcame to reach that degree. But all of this would not happen if it were not the help of this program that will soon become the backbone on living a better
The one person in my life that has influenced my decision to consider being a Speech Language Pathologist is my own Speech Language Pathologist and my mother. My Speech Language Pathologist
I sat in my child development class in a “brick and mortar” classroom setting. What was I doing there? I was extremely interested in what the professor was speaking on and what was being discussed. However, I was beginning to doubt whether I wanted to continue in my current field of study, Speech/Language Pathology. I no longer felt I was being fulfilled. There was something lacking. I talked to a few of my friends who mentioned how much money I would make as a Speech/Language Pathologist. I heard what they were saying, but somehow it just did not matter. I had to find the missing link…….
"Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology (2-Year Program).” College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College. Boston University.
It’s interesting to know that clinics like the one I volunteer for are approved by the Department of Education and can provide additional services to children who need them. I have been told by quite a few people that in the past, speech-language pathologists had to know a little bit of everything, and while that still holds true today, specialized speech-language pathologists are becoming more of the norm. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association offers SLPs the opportunity to receive their Clinical Specialty Certification, which is a step beyond the Certificate of Clinical Competence. These areas include Child Language and Language Disorders, Fluency and Fluency Disorders, Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders, and Intraoperative Monitoring; Auditory Verbal Therapy (AVT), what the SLP that worked with Student A was certified in, is governed by the Alexander Graham Bell Academy for Listening and Spoken Language. As a future speech-language pathologist, I will be able to refer a child whose speech and language issues go beyond hearing loss to the appropriate SLP and work collaboratively with him/her; educators will be able to advocate for their
I know that as a speech-language pathologist I will certainly be able to help individuals in endless amounts of ways. It will be my goal as a speech-pathologist to change someone’s life forever, whether it be helping someone with a minor articulation disorder or helping someone who has lost the ability to speak effectively. It would mean the world to me if I was able to see even the slightest progress in an individual because this would mean that they were one step closer than they were yesterday. The field of speech pathology seems undoubtedly challenging, but it also seems like it is one of the most rewarding professions in the world. I really hope that someday I can follow in the footsteps of my parents, assisting others passionately, for they are two incredible individuals that I will always look up to.
National Institute of Health. (2011). National Institute on Deafness and other communication disorders: Improving the lives of people who have communication disorders. National Institute on
Speech language pathology is another major rehabilitative medical care. Some stroke survivors area unit left with brain disorder, an impairment of language and speaking skills within which the stroke survivor will assume likewise as before the stroke, however is unable to induce the proper words out or is unable to method words coming back [32]. Brain disorder is sometimes caused by a stroke on the left aspect of the brain. Speech language pathology will teach the aphasic stroke survivor and his or her family members’ ways for dealing with this frustrating impairment. Speech language pathologists additionally work to assist the stroke survivor deal with blackout and alternative "thought" issues caused by the stroke [33].
Evaluation: We will make a scoring system, containing a scale from 0 to 5 (0 means bad pronunciation, 5 means good pronunciation). Before the treatment started, we had recorded the voice of mrs. K while reading a text. After treatment we are going to record her voice again and judge whether her pronunciation improved or not. We will also ask her family and to mrs. K herself. In this way, we consult the family and mrs. K which goal...
In conclusion, speech-language pathologists have a responsibility to be knowledgeable regarding to intervention approaches for auditory-processing disorders. Intervention should incorporate “comprehensive programming, incorporating bottom up (e.g. acoustic signal enhancement, auditory training) and top-down (i.e. cognitive, metacognitive, and language strategies) approaches” (ASHA, 2005a). The school-based speech-language pathologist should employ aspects of informal and/or formal auditory training, environmental modifications, and compensatory strategies and central resources training to create an individualized intervention approach for the students with APD on their caseload.
Laberge, Monique. “Speech Disorders: An Overview.” Perspectives on Diseases and Disorders: Speech Disorders. Ed. Mary Williams Farmington Hills: Gale, 16-25. Print.
Audiologists, C. A.-L. (2012, October). Early Identifacation of Speech adn Language Disorders. Retrieved from CASLPA: http://www.caslpa.ca