Speech Therapy is the process of helping people with disorders that occur when someone is not capable to produce sounds from their mouth correctly. Language disorders occur when someone is having trouble understanding others, or sharing thoughts and ideas. As Megan Hodge said “ A career in speech-language pathology challenges you to use your intellect (the talents of your mind) in combination with your humanity (the gifts in your heart) to do meaningful work that feeds your soul….I am proud to be a member of what I consider to be the best profession on earth.”
A SLT (Speech-Language Therapist) works with a variety of people like children and adults that have different levels of speech, language and communication disorders. Also, those who have swallowing , drinking , or eating difficulties. In young children's speech sound disorder are 8 to 9 percent. Roughly around first grade, 5 percent of children have noticeable speech disorders; Some of the disorders have no known cause. Generally speech therapist work thirty-seven hours per week, there’s nothing unusual about the hours or nature schedule.
Since the field of Speech Language is growing more children and adults are having more speech and language disorders so …show more content…
So seeing that the field has male and female working as a Speech Therapist. They should have a rapid growth of 10.6% for the upcoming years. The education for the field you would need the minimum of a master’s degree. During the final semester of graduate school, students take a clinical practicum. Clinicals require 300 to 375 hours of hands-on practice under the supervision of a licensed and certified speech-language pathologist. A graduate degree in Speech-Language Pathology takes two years of study beyond the bachelor’s. The top schools that have the circular program of SLP’s are the University of Iowa, IA , University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI also University of Washington-Settle,
A SLT (Speech-Language Therapist) works with a variety of people like children and adults that have different levels of speech, language and communication disorders. Also, those who have swallowing , drinking , or eating difficulties. In young children's speech sound disorder are 8 to 9 percent. Roughly around first grade, 5 percent of children have noticeable speech disorders; Some of the disorders have no known cause. Generally speech therapist work thirty-seven hours per week, there’s nothing unusual about the hours or nature schedule.
Since the field of Speech Language is growing more children and adults are having more speech and language disorders so …show more content…
So seeing that the field has male and female working as a Speech Therapist. They should have a rapid growth of 10.6% for the upcoming years. The education for the field you would need the minimum of a master’s degree. During the final semester of graduate school, students take a clinical practicum. Clinicals require 300 to 375 hours of hands-on practice under the supervision of a licensed and certified speech-language pathologist. A graduate degree in Speech-Language Pathology takes two years of study beyond the bachelor’s. The top schools that have the circular program of SLP’s are the University of Iowa, IA , University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI also University of Washington-Settle,