Hello!

Hello!
My name is Lisa, and I am a second year speech-language pathology graduate student. I wanted to begin this blog in order for me to share all my experiences as a student speech language pathologist, and hopefully soon as a clinical fellow.

I think speech-language pathology is one of the best jobs in the world. It allows one to be creative and work with people to improve their communication skills, which I think is one of the most vital skills we can possess. Plus, there are so many options for job settings boredom is hard to come by!

As an undergraduate student I was lucky enough to gain clinical hours in my college's speech, language, and hearing clinic. This allowed me to get over the nerves that accompany clinic before graduate school. In graduate school many of my classmates were freaking out before their first sessions. They didn't know how to plan therapy, interact with a client, or how to deal with session notes. As a class we tried to help each other, and I want to use this blog to help other speech-language pathologists as well.

I hope this blog can give good advice about school and therapy, as well as some crazy stories from both. I also hope to provide inspiration and ideas for therapy, because we all need a few new ideas from time to time.

As you read, if you have ideas too please share them. Either through comments or emails to me. As speech- language pathologists we make up an extended family, and we should all help one another.

Thank you for reading!
Lisa

P.S. Because I like coffee so much I made it the theme of my blog, I figured I would share my favorite coffee drinks as I post. Today's post is brought to you by a Pumpkin-Chai Latte; it finally feels like fall in the South and I wanted to Celebrate!