Did you have a lisp or have trouble saying your “R”s when you were little? My dream job is to be a speech therapist. A speech therapist is someone who helps people pronounce words and read well so they can understand what they are reading. I picked this job because you get to help someone with something with which they are struggling. In order to get my dream job of being a speech therapist, I need schooling and training, knowledge and skills, and goals for myself. First, I would like to talk about the schooling and training I will need to be successful as a speech therapist. According to Careers New Zealand, I will need four to five years of schooling including college. Also, I will need a Speech/ Language degree (careers.govt.nz/). Career Builder states that I …show more content…
According to Careers New Zealand, I will need to be calm and caring with the people I am helping because even if they get out of control, they need my help, and it is my job to make sure they can speak correctly and easily. Also according to Careers New Zealand, I will need to be patient and support them because speaking may be easy for me, but it’s not easy for them, and they might need extra time to learn things. Next, in high school, I will need to take biology, health science, English, and chemistry to understand how to help people (careers.govt.nz/). The goals I will need to achieve in order to become a speech therapist are pretty self explanatory. If I want to become a speech therapist, I will need schooling and training, knowledge and skills, and goals. A speech therapist is someone who helps people pronounce words when they are having trouble saying their words. They are most likely to work in nursing homes and schools. I picked this job because I enjoy being around kids and I want to help them with something they are struggling in. My life goal is to help people, and a speech therapist is someone who helps people speak. Word Count:
Speech and language specialists- This service supports people that have had a stroke or with people who have a speech impairment
Today’s speech pathologists are faced with many challenges. However, the field of speech therapy is unique in that when the speech pathologist overcomes a challenges is more often that not a significant triumph in the patients life. It is of massive importance for speech therapist have the following traits good interpersonal skills, the ability to take another’s perspective and problem solving skills.
Speech and language services: This service can support people who have had a stroke and have problems with their speech.
As some peoples communication can change day to day due to medical or physical conditions you can help to identify the best methods to suit them by monitoring them and reporting what you find to your manager they can then put in place aids or different methods that will best suit the individual. Also they will be able to set up meetings with the appropriate people e.g. speech therapist.
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 are many requirements that involve education and training, as well as personal requirements and aptitude. To be a Speech Language Pathologist, one must have a sincere interest in helping people, sensitivity, resourcefulness, and imagination. One must also be able to communicate orally and in writing. Michigan Works, an agency that assists with employment, posts jobs that display education and background requirements for obtaining a job as a Speech Language Pathologist. Some requirements include a master’s degree from a speech and hearing program certified by the ASHA, American Speech and Hearing Association, post-certification experience in an institutional setting. Home health experience is also desirable. One must graduate from high school and pass courses in biology, physics, social sciences, English, mathematics, public speaking, language, and psychology. Undergraduate courses should include a strong Arts/Science focus, linguistics, phonetics, anatomy, psychology, human development, biology, physiology, math, physical science, semantics, and social/behavioral science. To be an applicant for an SLP position, a graduate degree is required and also three hundred to three hundred seventy-five hours of clinical experience. Applicants have to pass
Identify and describe the different strategies and targets that can support children and young people’s speech, language and communication needs.
Communication, literacy and language: You need to assist the children in confidence building with positive praise. Also making sure they can communicate in a proper manner via
Speech and language services - Speech and language services help people all ages from babies to elderly people with their communication. They can provide any suggestions
An individual’s background can influence their communication methods in many ways. Such as the way someone has been brought up, their different values in life, their relationships with family members. These can all be a factor to how they communicate with others. These factors can effect communication because if their relationships have been quite hard and they do not see their own families much, the individual will find it difficult to trust and open up to the care managers at the nursing home. This will make it hard for the care managers to get to know the real them and it will be difficult to recognize any problems that appear. Also it depends what the individual’s medical history is. They could be on a type of medication which effects there communication. They could suffer from having dementia or a stroke, there for this can effort your communication massively. With all three factors you might have to use simple sentences or even using picture cards as the individual might find it easier to understand what you’re
• Your specific career goals and the licensure requirements you will need to achieve them.
Iris, Ms. Kathy and Ms. Hilary all had helpful pointers for a speech-language pathology assistant, SLPA. Ms. Iris explained that working directly with the students is the most beneficial thing an SLPA can do, and that paperwork and organization is meaningless without knowing the student, their needs, their family, their background and their goals. Ms. Hilary and Ms. Kathy told me to keep a broad focus, and to keep ears open for others even when I am working with one student. She mentioned it is also important to keep the whole child in mind like what else may help them to become more successful. I completely agree with the because I do not think that you are ever just working on social skills, or just speech skills. I think that there are many other factors that it is critical to look at the whole child, like Ms. Hilary said, instead of each area
My interest in Speech Language Pathology (SLP) stemmed from a research project during my undergraduate studies, but my personal and professional experiences galvanized my desire to pursue a Master’s degree in this field. I stand stronger today because of the lessons learned from teaching abroad, supervising children, volunteering at a hospital, and working with other university students. Because of these experiences, I am eager to delve into the profession that involves empowering clients, building rapport with them, and merging science with creativity to facilitate their development of communication skills. By obtaining my Masters degree in Speech Language Pathology, I know I will gain the necessary knowledge and skills to turn my passion into action at such a rich and diverse environment.
Little did I know my mother studied speech pathology as an undergraduate student, although she never followed through attending graduate school. Ironically following in my mother’s footsteps I feel as if it is ingrained in me to become a speech pathologist. Now having a Bachelor’s degree in speech pathology, I have found it important to continue to gain experience working with children. This year is my second year working in an educational setting, surrounded by children, teachers, behavior specialists, occupational therapists, and speech pathologists. Last year I started off as a volunteer in a preschool for children
When I am at best, I help people. I motivate myself and feel motivated when I get to help others. Whether it’s a stranger, colleague, friends, or family, I feel my passion in assisting those in need. As long as it’s within my capability and moral belief that what people ask for help is ethical and legal, I give them my attention and time. I feel happy that I am able to give a hand, and I feel happy to see people become happy with the help I give them. Helping others put smiles on my face and also on them as well. I feel proud of myself that I have the power to help the