Ever since my second year of college, I have known I wanted to become a Speech-Language Pathologist. All throughout high school, I couldn’t seem to decide what I wanted my career to be or what I wanted to major in. However, the answer to my confusion was “under my nose” the entire time. My younger cousin, now at the age of ten, had a severe stutter as soon as he started speaking. Coming from a family that knew nothing about speech and the science behind it, we were all concerned and had absolutely no idea what to do moving forward. After some research, he soon began seeing a Speech-Language Pathologist and slowly but surely, his stutter was disappearing. I was in absolute awe of his progress and quickly became curious about the process. The
