Speech and language pathology

A speech-language pathologist’s role is not definitive; their ability to explore options promotes growth within the field. Furthermore, they work diligently to provide optimal communication. While the idea of barriers impeding our form of communication, and impacting our everyday ventures, is a difficult concept to grasp. Despite the platform, everyone deserves to have a voice and express themselves. For this reason, I have chosen a field, which positively impacts a patient’s form of…

Bias #1, Page 171: “However, a CI can enable strong spoken language only when used with intensive auditory- oral exposure in extended, salient, and child-initiated interactions.6 Without a full linguistic and auditory experience, the effects of deafness- associated deprivation can derail the spoken language learning process before it begins.” (Mellon, N. K.) Author Nancy Mellon is currently the executive director at a non-profit agency providing several services for children who are deaf and…

proper, and the combination of my speech patterns and personality traits found me floundering at times to fit in, as I was considered an “Oreo” by my Caucasian and African American peers. I was constantly insecure about my intelligence, my speech, and how I was coming across to others. This pattern of thinking was shaken only by an eventual refusal to apologize for the characteristics and experiences that have made me who I am. I now embrace my love for language, education, healthcare, and…

began setting personal goals. They generally were small and short-term. I have always pushed myself to reach them. With college in my future, I knew I had to set new goals for myself. When I chose to attend Marywood University and major in speech-language pathology, one of my goals was extremely apparent to me. This was to receive a Master’s degree in the five-year program that Marywood offers. Another goal I had going into college was to become more confident in my abilities, especially that of…

"Brain injury referred to as traumatic brain injury (TBI), is defined as an alteration in brain function or other evidence of brain pathology caused by an external force. Acquired brain injury (ABI), is defined as an injury to the brain which is not hereditary, congenital, degenerative or induced by birth trauma. Today, any traumatic brain injury is an acquired brain injury, defined as any acquired disruption of brain function." Causes of TBI are trauma (open, closed, crushed, penetration:…

Washington University started with the desire of one day becoming a speech language pathologist. My passion for the field had already been cultivated by an internship that I acquired during my senior year of high school for 60-hours in early intervention SLP services. While most of my high school classmates had aspirations of meeting new people and having fun in college, I had dreams of getting the opportunity to observe and work in the speech clinic at WWU; unfortunately, all of those dreams…

I am a twenty-two-year old senior and am double majoring in Speech-Language Pathology and Women Gender Studies. I have also been a rower all four years, studied abroad in Galway, did service learning in West Allis, and have had multiple opportunities to work with both children and adults in the Marquette University Speech and Hearing Clinic. And while I have had the majority of my collegiate career focused on my Speech-Language Pathology major, I have only recently had the pleasure of turning my…

four principles that should be integrated into early intervention (EI) speech-language pathology services for infants and toddlers with communication disorders. The article stresses the importance of including the legal guardians of the child in all decisions regardless of their involvement in intervention. The four principles are founded on the ideas that EI services should be: (a) family oriented around culture and language, (b) developmentally appropriate and take place in a child’s natural…

million people come from non-English speaking backgrounds and approximately 13.9 per cent of our population speak a language…

Language and executive processing This study was designed and conducted by Nick Rendell at Birkbeck University. The study focused on how language has contributed to cognitive development looking at both bilingual and monolingual people. Can we find a relationship between the levels of bilingual speech production/comprehension and task switching ability? Executive functions are used when people listen and speak especially by bilingual people who need to control which of language they use or…