Bumpy Intervention

While I am learning an abundance of valuable information at Clarke, my background knowledge derived from my undergraduate studies. I double majored in Speech Pathology and Psychology at Brooklyn College because I believe they compliment each other well when it comes to the studies of speech. Different aspects of Psychology including cognitive science, neuroscience, and biology are essential in understanding speech disorders, language processing, production, acquisition, and comprehension. In my second year at Brooklyn College, I observed children at a nearby elementary school for 50 hours. During this time I observed how children at the kindergarten level interacted with each other. I shadowed the teacher in order to learn different teaching strategies that will be beneficial and applicable as a Speech Therapist.

There, I had the privilege of seeing an Early-Intervention Speech Therapist work with one of my students. She would sit on the floor and play games with him. Through these games, she was able to elicit verbalization from this child who normally grunted to communicate. Over a course of a year, I witnessed his communication skills enhance little-by-little with the assistance of this therapist. I had not realized how much he had improved until I saw him interacting with his friends at the dress-up center. This little boy who would once play alone on the floor was now requesting different objects and laughing with his friends. Recollecting his progress was phenomenal. Inspired by what I saw, I researched more about the field. While doing so, my mother disclosed to me that she and her father had an articulation disorder. Although my grandfather did not receive services, my mother received therapy in school, which she recalls as an unpleasant experience. Taking into account all that I witnessed and learned about the subject, I realized that I had found the middle ground between teacher and therapist that I had been searching for in Speech-Language Pathology.

As an eight year old student, I entered the annual science fair at school. The subject I chose to observe and research for my project was the human vocal chords. Collectively, my mom, a speech pathologist, and I sat down and watched videos that she had of her own vocal chords being activated and used for communication through speech and language. I was intrigued by the way that they worked and the way they were used to enable communication. My mom taught me about her work as a speech pathologist and how she had studied the vocal chords specifically to help her with the ability to train others who had speech and language impairments and communication disabilities. It was through my research and careful observation of the way that the vocal

After moving to New York City to pursue an acting career, I continued to work on my singing voice through professional voice lessons. As I learned more about my own voice, I became very interested in the science behind singing and speaking. This led to an independent inquiry for knowledge that quickly took me beyond the scope of singing pedagogy, and I began to rely on vocal anatomy and speech pathology text

As a child, I was faced with a lot of adversity. My grandmother raised my brothers and me. We lived on government assistance with little money and no car for transportation for extracurricular activities. The hardships we faced compelled me at a young age to stay in school, go to college, and make something of myself because I did not want to live a life limiting my dreams and opportunities. Throughout my academic career, there was not a specific moment that solidified my desire to pursue a profession in Speech- Language Pathology (SLP); instead, there were numerous. I initially became interested in this profession after learning how a child’s dysfluency was able to significantly improve. The gradual process of a client making substantial improvements

For my research I have chosen to discuss the key role of a Speech Language Pathologist (SLP). Speech Language Pathologists can best be recognized as qualified practitioners that identify, diagnose and treat communicative disorders (Serpanos & Senzer, 2015). There are two types of disorders that a SLP can be used for: speech disorder and language disorder. A speech disorder can best be described as a person that has trouble producing sounds correctly or fluently. A language disorder is recognized as someone who has trouble expressing thoughts, feelings and ideas through speech. SLP’s are taught how to treat each pf these disorders.

For parents or caregivers, being blunt or insensitive is an unreceptive form of communication, we have to be flexible and knowledgeable of our vocal quality and behavior. If a speech pathologist is working with a medical team, and perhaps the patient had a stroke, then communication with a doctor is crucial, and having the necessary skills to be precise and detailed about the patient’s progression is paramount. As a speech pathologist, our caseload may be with children or the geriatric population, so enjoying, respecting, and loving to work with people is vital.

“‘Atticus, he was real nice….’… ‘Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.’” is a dialogue written by Harper Lee that stuck with me after reading To Kill A Mockingbird in high school. Despite physical appearance or intellect, everyone deserves to be valued at their core; what better way to affirm someone than by conversing with them as Scout did with Boo Radley. Thus, my aspiration is to enable a voice to those with communication disorders. This desire to be a speech language pathologist has been influenced by personal and professional exposures to the field.

Speech therapy covers a wide range of different tasks to preform and individuals to help, existing to improve lives and have a deep understanding of communication.

An interview was conducted in which the client’s mother stated that she feels that Tommy’s voice quality is becoming progressively worse. Tommy has also begun to perceive the difference compared to his peers. He stated, “I sound different from all of my friends at school. They say ‘Tommy, what’s wrong with you? Why do you sound like that?’” In response to his friends’ inquisitiveness about his voice, Mrs. Callahan stated that Tommy is becoming less talkative. During the interview, a connected speech sample was taken whereby Tommy was asked to read the Limpy standard reading passage aloud. Low pitch and hoarseness were evident during the

After my first year of college, I was preparing for a long awaited double jaw surgery for the underbite I had since I was 8 years old. One of the steps I had to follow prior to the surgery was visiting a speech language pathologist. During the session, the SLP took baseline data of my speech with an underbite since many jaw surgery patients must follow up with speech therapy after surgery due to their transformed jaw placement. From calculating my s/z ratio to observing my conversational speech, each exercise I did fascinated me. This day opened my eyes to speech pathology and the importance of effective communication.

Given a field of 5 objects out of her reach and vocal/gestural modeling by the clinician and parent, Z will increase frequency of intentional communication, using signs, gestures or vocalizations to request desired object in 8 out of

2. The intention of Mr. J’s son purpose behind making his father’s book more accessible to the speech and language pathologist experts is that he hopes that such experts can learn from the work of his father. Thus helping improve the care provided to individuals with such speech

The 22 children were split into 2 groups; 1 half given positive speech therapy, praising their speech and the other half given negative speech therapy, belittling them for any speech imperfection they made.

The article introduced discusses how the uprising of technology can be beneficial in the work field of speech language pathology. Gosnell stated “As with expressive language, many apps target receptive language skills. Receptive skills sometimes require spoken answers, but other times simply require pointing to an appropriate object of picture” (2011). Updated technology has had an astounding effect on the speech language field resulting in different ways for clients to learn how to connect with others. This article will assist me in showing my audience