Speech Pathologist
Do you like working with kids and adults with special needs?
Day-to-day Responsibilities
- Identifying children’s developmental speech and communication difficulties
- Monitoring and evaluating client’s progress
- Setting personal objectives
- Working with children one on one
- Set up programs to help clear up the speech issue
What is a speech pathologist?
Do you love working with kids and adults with disabilities? Do you like making a difference in people’s daily lives? If so, you would love to be a Speech Pathologist and Audiologist! If you are a speech pathologist you will have many responsibilities. Some of these are that you have to identify and make a plan to help your patient improve their communication skills. If you tend to like working with kids and their parents in a small group, this will be a job that will fit your personality well. Not only will you be able to make a difference in people’s life; but you will be able to help clear up your patient’s communication issues and feel amazing about it.
Working with Special Needs Adults
In this job you will get to work with people of many ages. This includes helping special needs and people with just speech issues.
Solving Communication Issues
Being a speech pathologist you will have to help solve people's communication issues. Communication is such a big role in today's society and everyone needs to be able to communicate somewhat.
Working with technology to help understand and teach.
One of the benefits of being a speech pathologist is using different types of technology, Technology can help stimulate kids and help teach them different tools.
Advantages and Disadvantages.
Advantages!
- You will make a difference in people’s life and are able to see the results
- You get to meet new people
- You are able to develop new relationships
- Improve people’s daily life