[nabs-l] speech-language pathology or special ed

[Carly Mihalakis]

Good afternoon, Kelsey, and other interesteds,

 From what you have learned of a potential speech language pathology 
direction, does it seem that you can do the job? Now, I'm not 
talking' that shit about "as well or better than ol' Sighty." You 
gotta make your strategies related to working in the field of speech 
language pathology, your own.
Don't worry about anyone's standards or, the way they think it should 
be. You don't need that.unless it will help you feel motivated if not 
entirely comfortable. I am thinking about getting a masters degree in 
speech-language pathology.  However, I was talking to my former 
second grade teacher yesterday about it.  She said that she doesn't 
think I would be successful with this because of the high degree of 
visual tasks such as being able to see how someone is moving their 
mouth during speech or things like that.  I indicated that I could 
maybe do it by feel, but she still feels that this would be too 
visual.  This came from having talked to the speech therapist at the 
elementary school.  On the other hand, I have also considered the 
special education field.  I have been tutoring two students in 
Braille since June and really enjoy it.  My sister thinks that I'd 
make a good Braille teacher.  So I am wondering which field would be 
better suited for a totally blind student.  I want to make sure my 
money is being well spent.
>In other words, I don't want to go through the speech-language 
>pathology program only to find out that I cannot do it.  Any 
>opinions on this would be greatly appreciated.
>Thanks in advance,
>Kelsey Nicolay
>
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