Speech Pathologist

I attended _____ university which has a rural focus, with an aim to retain country people in country jobs. It equips us to specifically deal with issues around indigenous health, and difficulties in providing health education, assessment and therapy to regional and remote areas. It also looked at alternative methods to achieve this, like training people within the community and telehealth, and different models of service provision.

I bring the diversity to the field also I am able to help students that speaks Spanish and also I am aware of different cultures.

Both, I am self motivated and have alot of initiative, but I like to collaborate with other slaps and slps.

I selected Montclair State University for several reasons. First, it is a well-established program with a great reputation and accredited by the ASHA. The program's professors are also well-published and recognized in the field. Second, they have an on-site clinic, which provides clinical training in various disorders and populations. Lastly, I wanted to practice in the area once I graduated, so attending Montclair State enabled me to make connections and contacts while attending the program.

Tongue exercises if it is with articulation like the sound /r/. Have the train the tongue to move in different directions.

Mixed success using this method. I find it can be really useful for patients in increasing overall awareness of their oral structures and articulatory positions during speech in those who are dyspraxic or dysarthric. This can increase speech intelligibility. I have found that functional speech tasks have proven more successful in speech intelligibility gains, also patients often prefer functional 'relevant' exercises.

► Tell me a little bit about yourself.

► Tell me about your current work setting.

► What social skills resources do you use for children with autism spectrum disorders?

► Tell me about the most difficult client you've ever had and how you worked through it.

► Tell me about the hardest therapy session you've ever had and how you made it work.

► What experience do you have with children with __(whatever disorder the site specializes in serving)__________?

► What AAC/Assistive Technology experience do you have?

► How do you involve parents and teachers in treatment?

► Tell me what you do in your current job.

► How do you keep up with due dates and important to-do items?

► How do you organize therapy data and session notes?

► How do you stay organized?

► How do you keep data during a therapy session with a busy client?

► What's your philosophy for serving preschool students for speech/language?

► What model do you use to serve students currently? (pull out, push in, inclusion, collaborative, coteaching, consultation?)

► What model do you use to serve students with autism?

► What program/model do you use to serve students with articulation/phonology disorders?

► How would you approach serving children with multiple special needs in a self-contained classroom setting?

I work 40 to 50 hours a week. As a self-employed professional, my work week includes: 20 to 25 hours of treatment and evaluation time; 10 to 15 hours of paperwork, blog writing, research, and preparation for sessions; six to eight hours of commute, since I perform home-based therapy; and two to three hours of communicating with clients, insurance companies, and other professionals outside of treatment time.

I sleep seven hours a night. Typically, I take four weeks of vacation a year.

I have never had difficulty finding a job, and in many cases had to consider multiple offers at once. However, recent graduates may have difficulty finding an ideal match because supervision to earn their certification through ASHA (CCC-SLP) is needed. My final decisions were never determined by the amount of compensation. My motivation in accepting a job was based on the level of training I would receive and the experience I would gain from working in a certain setting with various disorders and populations.

Articulation disorder: It is a disorder caused due to difficulties producing or pronouncing sounds, and the sounds may be added, substituted, omitted, added or deleted by other words. For example, school becomes cool, and spoon becomes thpoon

Phonological disorder: Phonological disorder is usually seen in children altering the structure of words or change in the sound pattern like "do" for "go" and "tup" for "cup".

When I was in my first year of my undergrad program and casting around for arts classes to add to my timetable, my mom suggested I take a linguistics class, since both she and my sister had loved the classes they had taken in the subject, and I had enjoyed language studies in high school. Only a couple weeks into my Ling 101 course, I was hooked. I went on to take several more linguistics classes. When I was in my third year of a four-year arts degree, I realized that a pure linguistics degree would land me one of two types of jobs: research or teaching. Since I was interested in neither, and wanted a way to apply all this cool stuff I was learning

For communication among speech unable person, augmentative and alternative device is used. It decipher the signals made by hand, eyes, picture, body language, etc. Augmentative and alternative communication includes both aided and unaided system. Aided system includes books and special computers, picture charts, etc. Unaided system includes gestures and signing. AAC methods may be personalized to meet each individual's needs.

The most rewarding part I think would be working with stroke patients and seeing a lot of them recover. Those who weren't able to swallow at all or were on feeding tubes or those who couldn't speak at all because of the stroke, it's really rewarding when they are able to get some of those capabilities back.

They are both so different, and I guess that is the best ting about being able to work with both. With children, it's amazing to know that the changes you can instill now can affect them in a positive way for the rest of their lives. With adults, it's really interesting to learn about the lives they have already lead and to use those experiences to learn the skills they need.

Currently there is a lack of evidence base surrounding the use of oromotor excercises to aid speech production, though there is evidence to support their use in chewing therapy and anecdotally some slts feel oromotor activities have resulted in improvements in speech intelligibility

Reading speech and language journals and trade magazines! Sometimes it's hard for me to separate myself from my profession because it's such a strong part of my identity. However, when I do, I enjoy walking and hiking with my husband and dog, reading novels, traveling and sitting on the beach.