what is speech pathology and what is so special about this profession that it generates a high level of job role satisfaction and enthusiasm that is still going strong after a quarter century?
Speech pathology, also termed speech-language pathology, is the study of the disorders that affects a persons speech, language and swallowing. Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) choose one or a mixture of two main clinical areas to work in, which are with adults or children. Adult work mainly involves rehabilitation after a traumatic event, such as a stroke, which may leave a person with a disorder such as aphasia, dysarthria or apraxia. Work with children mainly involves attempting to bring the childs language or speech skills up to the level of their peers. I have opted to work mainly with adults and the following are some of the reasons that have contributed to my enthusiasm and job role satisfaction over the course of 26 years: • Tremendous diversity in job setting opportunities from the public school and university setting to medical speech pathology; • Multitude of work choice settings in medical speech pathology including acute hospitals, nursing home facilities, home health ag
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