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Sunday, September 8, 2013

Week #1-9/5-Free Post-10 Questions Follow Up

After leaning that a text book could not answer all my questions about communication, I decided to try and look else where to answer them. First, I looked to the internet. There I found answers to many of my career-related questions (correlates to previous post). 

Career-Related Answers: (internet)
7. Speech therapy/pathology careers can be enormously different. A job can be anything from helping an infant learn to eat and working with special-needs children on speech to swallow-testing adults and assisting stroke patient.
8. A communication degree can be extremely broad and in this case that is a good thing. It will be important to choose the correct minor to compliment communication. However, a communication degree from Michigan State will prove useful for a career in speech therapy.
10. Communication careers can be so different, that listing all of them would be impractical. Some examples are human resources, public relations, and of cores speech pathology.

I then had to ask an academic counselor to answer my last question.
Career-Related Answers: (counselor)
9. There are many routs I could take to become a speech therapist. The most likely for me would be a standard four year undergrad majoring in communications and then a two year graduate program in speech and language pathology.

Learning all this new information has made me even more interested communication. The answer that is most interesting to me is just how vast a career in speech can be. Now that I know all my possibilities, I am starting to decide which job would be the right fit for me. I am now leaning toward working with children with special needs. To me, that would be the career that is most rewarding. I am excited to continue learning about all these possibilities.      
 

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