Synthesis

Synthesis

There is no getting around it, I want to be a speech therapist. This means that I need to study hard in the communication field and advance my caring personality. According to the American Speech and Language Association, to have a career in speech means I have to be “professionally competent” and “follow an ethical code” (American Speech and Language Association). These are both extremely important concepts that were further pronounced to me during my blogging process.

Blogging about my perspective field has shown me just how important it is to work hard in my communication and writing courses. To be “professionally competent” means I have to continue learning effectively so that I will be able to “do the best of your ability” and use “training and instruments properly” (American Speech and Language Association). Every source I have read over the time I have spent blogging leans to just how important having a solid education is in speech therapy. This only inspires me to work harder at becoming a ST. Further, my blog has provided me with numerous examples of how a professional in the communication field writes. Professionals write a fairly impressive amount each day between “emails to [her] department, charity organization planning, and human resource paper work [she] writes every day” (Ray). This made me realize that I need to work to improve my writing in all styles. I practice writing somewhat informally for my blog, and practice formality with my college courses. My schooling is helping me prepare to be a professionally competent speech therapist.

Along with the proper education, my blog has emphasized how important being sensitive to other’s needs is for a ST. I plan to work with children who have special needs. This is a task that is especially crucial to be caring. Attempting to help teach ways to communicate will be a different process for each child. Knowing the client’s needs and how to accommodate to their needs is a job cut out for only a person who is caring. Articles I have read for my blog from the American Journal of Speech and Language Pathology all somewhat describe the type of personality needed to work in speech. A main example of this is that an entire study was conducted to see if children who were self-conscious of their speech were the children who saw a SLP. The language of the article on this study sounds almost sympathetic to the children (mainly those actually with a SSD).  Online sources also direct people who are sympathetic to other people’s needs toward speech therapy. The Speech Path quiz I took even took if I was caring or not into consideration to determine if I would make a good ST. Throughout my blog, evidence of my caring personality is clear. I express sympathy and desire to help children with SDD frequently. This is one properly done part of my blog, which is also important because it helped me realize how sympathetic I actually am. Rereading my posts has reassured me that I am sensitive to other’s needs. This fact also somewhat alarms me, because I now worry I may be too compassionate. My blog may be overly sensitive, to the point where I show biases. I overwhelmingly side with anything speech related. This may not be all bad though, because it is further self-prof that I may make an able ST.

Blogging has prepared me for my future career, and I hope this blog will help readers learn similar lessons. I will use improved writing skills, new awareness of caring traits, and new motivation to learn to guide me into a successful career of speech therapy.

Works Cited

"Should You Become a Speech Pathologist?" Speech Pathologist Quiz Results. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Nov. 2013. 

   Mcleod, Sherryann. "Speech Sound Disorders in a Community Study of Preschool Children." American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 22 (2013): 503-22. Print.

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. (2010). Code of ethics [Ethics]. Available from www.asha.org/policy.