Featured Speech-Language-Pathologist
Sherri Lovelace, Ph.D.,CCC-SLP

How I became an SLP
I was one of those students who knew that I needed a college degree, but I didn’t know what it should be.  Because of my uncertainty I floated from major to major only to end up as a senior still undecided about what I was to do with my life.  The instructor of a public speaking course asked had I ever thought about speech-pathology as a career.  I asked, “What’s speech-pathology”?  After speaking with the chair of the department, I thought “I’ll give it a try”.  In my first course, Introduction to Communication Disorders, I completed 25 hours of clinical observations at the Mississippi Children’s Hospital.  After viewing clinicians working with children of all ages with various speech, language, and swallowing difficulties - I was hooked!  I finally knew what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.