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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.
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