Becoming A Speech Pathologist

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My main goal and the reason I am attending college is to achieve my objective of becoming a speech pathologist. To get more insight in becoming a speech pathologist I had decided to interview the speech pathologist at the school my mom teaches at. During my interview Ms. Sebastian had constantly brought up the amount of time and effort I must give to school in order to succeed. Though she constantly brought up how much time and effort I must give that is not my golden line, my golden line would be when she had told me even though the process of becoming a speech pathologist takes a while the end goal is worth it. Begin able to help a child talk correctly always makes you feel so amazing and the feeling is worth the hours of school. During this

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