Pathologist Career

When I was in middle school, I wasn’t able to make coherent sentences and it caused me to withdrawal from conversations and class participation. During my lunch period, I would help the special education department and sit with people that didn’t care if I stuttered with my speech or fumbled with my words. In that department, there was a speech therapist who saw my struggle and knew how to help me; she would guide me to visualize a connection from my brain to my mouth and eventually I wasn’t so nervous to talk during school. That’s why I believe the right career for me is a speech-language pathologist. I know the frustration of not being understood. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, speech therapists typically need at least a master’s …show more content…
Time management is another big one, there is a lot of paperwork but some of it’s digital, so it isn’t too bad.” She also told me, I have to have the desire to take on new challenges, because if I become a speech therapist there is a certain amount of hours of continued education needed to renew my licence. Taylor said in Pennsylvania, it is required to have twenty hours in a two year period to be able to keep your licence. I looked on the Ohio Board of Speech Language and Audiology website and it has the same requirement, “A licensee must earn twenty continuing education clock hours within the two year licensed period.” Mrs. Taylor sees this as an advantage, because she’s learning new ways to provide treatment and gives updated research to her work, which helps reassure her, what she is doing is correct. Another advantage that she likes is seeing her patients progress until they’re ready to be independent. However, the disadvantage is the patients who can’t or won’t make any progress, resulting in her telling them the therapy isn’t working or they aren’t benefiting from it, “It can get emotional sometimes.” I will have trouble with this, because I am a very emotional